Egton Show

Tomorrow, Wednesday 26 August, is the local agricultural show and as usual we're closing the office so the staff can all attend. Although the forecast is pretty horrendous. This is the BBC weathermap for the area for tomorrow - blue is rain, the darker it is the more there is falling. (Egton is roughly under the W of the Whitby tag) It's going to be muddy!
Back on Thursday.

Jumping commas and tall sunflowers

HB survived the show last weekend , it was great to see so much home grown produce. Two doors down from the CJS office, one of the children grew the tallest sunflower at 2.94m, which caused uproar in HB's house as they got to 2.91m!!!

But brains are a little mangled and after a complete mental block we've coined a new phrase, jumping comma - any ideas? Think about it.

CJS Weekly has been published as usual, 10 sides, this week with details of 54 new paid posts this week of which 33 were sent direct to CJS. Digital copies already online and post permitting paper copies due on Monday.

Merlin on the moors

Today I've been down to Groves Bank (old CJS Office) to retrieve some bits out of the archive (Niall's deep litter filing system - works very well, he found the relevant pieces of paper remarkably quickly). The roads across the moors are madness, full of dawdling holiday makers it's only four miles but took over half an hour! Just to remind us not to grumble about visitors enjoying what we have all year long on the way down there flying alongside the car was a beautiful adult female merlin, she kept pace with us (at 30mph-ish) for a short distance then lifted up and over the car before flying ahead of us and dropping down into a disused quarry.
Some days are just magic.
(Picture from RSPB, click on it for more about merlins)

CJS Focus on Urban Greenspace

9 pages of fascinating articles, useful information and adverts. To read this edition click here, or visit the website and follow the links.
This edition was in association with The Land Restoration Trust.

The next edition will be published in November and will be CJS Focus on Trees and Hedges in association with The Tree Council for National Tree week.

Front Page news

in the local paper.

Well it got your attention. On Saturday evening there was a very large yellow Sea King RAF Search & Rescue helicopter flying round for quite a while. Turns out that some fool had been tombstoning down one of the many waterfalls, and damaged their back. This particular waterfall is notorious in the village and the footpath has only just been reopened this summer. For more see the Whitby Gazette. And much as we love to see the Sea Kings (lovely piece of machinery if a little noisy) please don't do anything so silly.

Juno (one of the office dogs) had a couple of lumps removed yesterday so she's a bit sore and grumbly today and is wearing a very fetching tee-shirt and one sock with a lampshade collar in reserve.

Tomorrow is the village Flower & Veg show, HB is the secretary so has taken today off to try to get organised (and bake enough cakes to feed the five thousand).

CJS Monthly went out as usual on Tuesday and should have reached everyone by now, CJS Weekly with September's training calendar is currently printing and will soon be on it's way to postal readers, digital copies already available. You're also getting the CJS Focus with this edition - more of which next week.

And for now that's it.

Silly Sheep

You may have seen on the news or read about Shaunetta the sheep who marooned herself halfway down the cliff below Hawsker, a village just East of Whitby (we're on a sticky out bit and the coastline actually runs West-East rather than North-South, confusing I know). You can read about Shaunetta in the local paper. Click here.

Today on the Telegraph there is a report about another silly sheep, this one in Norway which went down his own version of a zip-wire using his horn as a hook whilst attempting to reach a field full of lovely ewes. For more sheep antics click here

Added to which excitement the Great North Air Ambulance landed in the field in front of the office and has just flown away complete with patient (that's not so good, but whoever they are they're in good hands now). We save up all the stamps off your letters to us and send them to charity, recently they've all been going to the Great North Air Ambulance fund so it's good to know the service is working well.

Back to the boring bits now. CJS Weekly is now printing and will, post permitting, be with you on Monday. This week's edition is 9 pages containing 67 new paid posts of which 28 came direct to CJS.

Here we go again

Just popped up on the BBC, Postal workers to stage strikes. Strike will be on Friday, Saturday and Monday; at the moment it doesn't seem as if we will be directly affected this time but it will probably delay some copies of CJS on route.

Rad more here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8186922.stm

As ever we'll keep you updated as we find out more.

Here we go again

Just popped up on the BBC, Postal workers to stage strikes on Friday, Saturday and Monday. It doesn't seem as we will be directly affected this time but it will probably delay some copies of CJS on route.

Rad more here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8186922.stm

As ever we'll kepp you updated as we find out more.