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Friday, August 13, 2010

WEIRD WEEKEND SCRAPBOOK: Oll on day one

Today was unusual for me, even by Weird Weekend standards. The day started off normally enough with the post cocktail party clean up and later on touring people around the CFZ menagerie and introducing guests to all the animal’s which included really interesting talks with Dr Dan and Mike and Ruby. One of the things I enjoy about the Weird Weekend is that you get to talk to people from all over the world and learn new things or things get mentioned to you that make you see things in ways that hadn’t occurred to you before. I always try to live my life by the rule that if you didn’t learn at least one new thing a day is wasted so day’s like today can count towards upping my non-wasted day count considerably.

When things started to get bizarre was when I was put in charge of the ‘frogs’ for the opening ceremony. It was sort of like herding cats. I was trying to keep 5 children of varying ages in the same area at once and stop them from going off to clean green face-paint off their noses, which is no mean feet. Eventually I managed to get the kids to stay in roughly the same area by warning them that if they did not there was a possibility that a heron might fly in through their kitchen window and mess up their pots and pans. I don’t think the kids believed me but at least this bit of silliness seemed to work. The day’s unusualness was not over however because as soon as I had finished filming Andy Robert’s talk on the Welsh Roswell Dave Curtis came rushing up to me to say he had just seen a ‘black triangle’ UFO after dropping off the rest of the Curtis clan at the B&B. I remembered Jon, Nick Redfern, Mark North and Larry Warren had also seen a black triangle at the WW cocktail party a few years back and that several other people in the village had also claimed to have seen them in the past too, so I told Dave about Jon’s sighting and he went over to tell Jon about his own. Dave then was given the microphone to tell the hall about what he’d just seen.

Big Cats, UFOs, ghosts and poltergeists all in the same village, you really couldn’t make it up.

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