Spot the deliberate mistaek

We're sure there must be some this week! We've been seriously short staffed but have soldiered on and CJS Weekly is now printing, this week there are 12 pages containing 75 new paid posts of which 43 were sent direct to CJS. Thank goodness it's almost the weekend and the foot soldiers can have a couple of days of R'n'R to allow poor brains to recover.

Summer arrives – oh, no it doesn't!

The first swallows were sighted on Sunday – summer's here, almost. Then on Thursday we awoke to an covering a snow and the Post Master had to go to the top of the hill because the delivery driver with the newspapers was too chicken to drive down into the village. Any way they got here and we collected ours to scan for Monday's CJS Weekly. Which is even now printing. This week it's 13 pages plus three for the Monthly training Calendar, there are 80 new paid posts of which 39 came direct to CJS there's an advert for a conservation working holiday programme (a new area for CJS), not to mention the Wombles – yes that's right, the furry residents of Wimbledon Common, SW19. You'll have to read it to find out why…

Busy week draws to a close on a cloudburst

For the last couple of days the weather has been beautifully sunny and almost warm but as I type the heavens have opened and the rain is being hurled to the ground with some ferocity, there go the plans for a gardening weekend… never mind.

The new subs rates seem to be generally welcomed, the new shop is, so far, behaving, the pdf distiller is still causing problems (it seems to think A4 is the same size as legal letter) but with a bit of persuasion the end result is not dissimilar from the original. To cap it all one of our printers has decided it thinks everything should be in 3D! An engineer is on his way to fit it with the right sort of specs so that those of us with more normal vision can read the copy without getting a blinding headache. The other printers have machinefully shouldered the burden and are working overtime to ensure CJS Weekly is out on time. This week it is 14 pages with 122 new paid posts of which 74 came direct to CJS.

April's Monthly.

From baking temperatures, not quite coffee in the garden but not far off, to snow and freezing conditions over the weekend. Yesterday the papers didn't reach the village until 11am due the dreadful road conditions, even the dogs struggled, ice dance for Labradors anyone? Today Goathland has been dry and is now basking in sunshine but less than two miles away the roads were once again impassable because of the sudden and fierce snow falls. Through it all CJS keeps on bashing those keyboards and today the Monthly edition has been completed. It's already online and if you get an electronic reminder you should have that very soon. Paper editions will be landing on desks on Thursday.

Missing!

Friday's blog update didn't appear for some reason. So here it is again…

Well we've managed the week and the presses are now rolling. This week's edition is 13 pages containing 88 new paid posts, 54 of which came direct to CJS. We've changed the online copies today, no longer are the display adverts separate from the main copy but are now in place in the main body of the copy of both the HTML & PDF options. The RTF file remains as plain text with links to the displays. But (there has to be a but doesn't there?) we've had problems with the PDF Distiller today and the PDF looks a little strange. We're working on a solution and will replace the file asap and next week everything will be back to 'normal'. And don't forget the new subscription rates now apply and so far (whisper it) the new shop is working well.

All change

New CJS Weekly subs rates now apply. And the new shop has been launched this week, so far no reported problems but do contact us if you know differently. There a several more options too, you can download the current edition without having to subscribe, you can request back issues (not sure why you'd want to but the option's there if you do) and the full range of Special Editions are also available to purchase in hard copy format. For more details click here.