A quiet but warm week

We have not been inundated with jobs this week but plenty have gone on to Daily Online. KH has been on holiday and has been blessed with good warm, dryish weather for spring tidying in the garden.

The next edition of CJS Weekly has finished printing and will soon be in envelopes, online already and paper copies due on Monday as usual. 9 pages this week with 61 new paid posts of which 36 were sent direct to CJS.

Green grass!

At last, the fields are green again even the white margins have been erased. The birds are singing and no longer flocking to the feeding station although we've had a pair of robins very delicately sharing food and several dunnocks flirtatiously waving their wings. A host of snowdrops were waiting patiently under the drifts and are now gently nodding in the breeze.
It seems spring really is in the air (but say it quietly in case Jack Frost hears us and decides to return for one last fling). And amid all this productivity the next edition of CJS Weekly drops off the printers, online already and paper copies due on Monday as usual. 13 pages this week with 104 new paid posts of which 69 were sent direct to CJS.

Let nothing come between you and your CJS

Well, eventful journeys home for all staff travelling by car even though they were sent home early, leaving at around 3pm but all made it safely home. In the evening the snow changed to light drizzle followed by clearing skies and a slight freeze overnight but no more white stuff. The ruler in the middle of the lawn measured seven and half inches of snow (19cm), so not too bad then. Tractor ploughs and gritters got the roads cleared and opened again by this morning although the vehicular debris was spectacular including a large 4x4 which slid sideways off the road and was stopped by a tree from plunging down the ravine into the river above Beck Hole.
The office remained open and thankfully the heavy snow melted from the vital wires and (so far) no loss of power or phones. So CJS Weekly is now dropping off the printers, this week there are 60 new paid posts, 39 of them direct to CJS, it's 10 pages long plus a further three with training courses and professional events.

Oh, the weather outside is frightful...

But inside by the fire (or should that be PC) is so delightful and since we've no place to go (now that we've sent all the staff home).
Let it snow, let it snow.

And since it shows no sign of stopping (since about 10am this morning)
But no corn for popping, just lots of work to do and we've got our fingers crossed that the lights don't get turned way down low, although the 'leccy cable is sagging alarmingly.
So let it snow, let it snow but let the lights stay on and we'll get your CJS to you!

CJS Monthly

Busy week, CJS Focus published yesterday and today CJS Monthly is published online, paper copies due to land on desks on Thursday (post permitting).
The Monthly is dropping off the printers now, it's five pages plus a further five of events.
Read it online now.
Just the Weekly to go now...

CJS Focus in Volunteering

Published today 9 February 2009. In association with CMA & SCRA

102 different voluntary posts plus 72 general adverts for volunteer programmes both nationally and overseas.
32 pages of fascinating articles, information, and contacts.

To read this publication CLICK HERE

Candlemas and snows

If Candlemas day be fair and bright winter will have another flight,
If Candlemas day be dull and drear winter has gone for another year.

But what about if it snows all day??

It started at lunch time yesterday and gradually got heavier with hail overnight, a few breaks in the virtually constant snow during today but the forecasters are predicting 20 inches (yes, nearly two feet) more of snow overnight. So like many offices we're a little short staffed today so grant us a little latitude if we're not quite as fast usual. However, our big worry is that the lights keep flickering so we're just hoping the power stays online.

Hope you're all warm and dry and have made fantastic snowmen to populate the winter wonderland.