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I like Bank Holidays...

Blissfully quiet - if you don't set foot in the village before sundown - no email, no phone and whole heap of work completed, wonderful I can actually see the bottom of my in tray (well, almost). Once the official Bank Holiday was over and it stopped raining we've had a wonderful week. The first swallow was spotted yesterday as were a couple of peacock butterflies and we've had a report of a cuckoo calling. The garden is drying up and might get weeded at last.
Back in the office a few people managed to find time to send us job adverts meaning that there is a Weekly edition, we did begin to wonder on Wednesday when only one job was received all day!

STOP PRESS: We've just realised that we've left out something rather vital! We'll be right back in a minute...

OK, presses rolling again. our seven page edition is now eight and now has 55 new paid posts of which 34 came direct to CJS. It also includes the one thousandth paid post of the year.

Perhaps we've been a little too laid back this week or maybe the sunshine has just addled our brains.

CJS Monthly

The April edition is now online, only 2 pages of jobs I'm afraid there are however 5 pages of training courses online. The paper copies will be with you on Thursday. A short press release about the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2010 is included, CJS are again sponsoring the habitat category.
Click Here to read the April edition.

Easter and a Weekly

It's been a funny week, alternately busy and then quiet - today has been a day of isolation, only two phone calls (from team members) and two emails (also from staff members working remotely). The Weekly was ready for press early and we had to wait for deadline, just in case a hard working ranger somewhere suddenly realised they needed an extra pair of hands. I don't think we've ever before gone to press at one minute past deadline! Now it's all printed and waiting for envelopes, due for collection tomorrow and delivery on Tuesday. Digital subscribers can read their copy online right now, they'll find it's eight pages long containing details of 69 new paid posts of which 56 came direct to CJS. For postal subscribers don't forget the rates changed yesterday afternoon.

The quiet of the bank holiday has allowed us to catch up with all sorts of little jobs and get started on a couple of big ones. However, problems elsewhere mean our big IT upheaval has been postponed for a week or so and will now be completed in stages. We'll let you know what's happening and when, it does mean that the office will have to close for a few hours one day to finish the upgrade and synchronise the systems.

To let the Team have a well earned break the office will be closed on Monday morning but we'll be running a skeleton service on Monday afternoon and back to normal on Tuesday with the April Monthly (it's going to be a small one because everyone is on holiday - I blame St Hilda).