Monday, 30 March 2009

Lough Foyle Monster!!

A Journal reader who dropped in for a bite to a local restaurant in Derry got much more than he bargained for -

Hello,I was having lunch in mange 2 restaurant on Friday, when my wife Helen pointed out a strange object in the river that seemed to moving at a fair pace. I told her it must be a seal or maybe a diver or something. To our amazement and the surprise of the other diners, the "seal" surfaced some more and what seemed to be a long neck emerged from the water. I had my camera phone on the table and managed to grab a snap. The creature only emerged for a few seconds but the image is fairly clear. The event was also witnessed by the restaurant staff and by the two passers-by visible outside the window. Do you think we are dealing with a Loch Foyle Monster?



Yikes! This is scary - we could have something suspiciously like the Loch Ness monster on our hands (or at least, in our waters) . . .








Wednesday, 25 March 2009

Soimething you may have missed

Tick Prevention Week - 6th-12th April 2009 www.tickpreventionweek.org

This is not your leader

Just to be clear - this blog is intended as a respite from the main business of the day, which is tremendously serious of course. So if you find yourself trembling with anticipation as you turn to the leader column of your newspaper, this may not be for you . . .

Welcome to our stunning new home

Welcome hordes!


This is the new home for the Journal editor's blog (see http://www.blogstoday.co.uk/bloghome.aspx?username=Journal%20editor)


With this blog, gratis and for nothing, comes all the latest updates from the Journal editor's mail box (who could forget those details from the Simple Living Fair in Carndonagh, posted just yesterday) and our extensive range of correspondents (Robert Spates, Washington).


Let's make it clear - blogstoday is still a good friend (and part of our mother organisation Johnston Press). It was just getting tiresome deleting an old photo to get a new one on. Now look!


Yes, a picture of the Carndonagh Firemen's Ball from some time ago. . . (although it seems like only yesterday).
Photographer - We'll just take it in this corridor here, it'll be lovely. Look at that carpet!