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Yesterday I had a visit from a nice bunch of lads from a company making a big cat documentary for Amazon Prime.

A long-snouted seahorse has been photographed off the coast of Plymouth, south west UK.

We are facing what all sorts of people choose to call a DYSTOPIAN FUTURE (I am over indulging in my use of capitalisation because so does everyone else who are trying to emphasise how DYSTOPIAN our FUTURE is likely to be).

Members of the public weigh in on claimed big cat sighting on Pike of Blisco in the Lake District…

A species of gliding squirrel (Eupetaurus cinereus) that was last seen in 1994 was cross-referenced with museum specimens and found to be three squirrels, not one.

 This is not going to go down in the annals of history as one of the most successful weeks in the life of Jonathan Downes.

This episode features Monkeys in Hong Kong, Bobcats in LA and more goofy behaviour from Jon

Fauna and Flora international campaign for rhinos

The state of big car reports from Cheshire continues with the story of an alleged big cat seen by a lorry driver at night behind Costco in Chester.

The panoply of big cat reports, and I say this rather than “sightings” because it is certain that some of the animals reported are not big cats, continues with a slightly excitable account of a young lady hill walker who is convinced that she saw a big cat.

Apparently, the great unwashed have been taking a pop at my old mate Nick Redfern, for daring to say that sightings of BHM phenomena across the United Kingdom cannot be of flesh and blood creatures. I don’t know why the so-called British Bigfooting research community get so het up on the subject, but they have done for years.

For some months I have been joking that the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would be named Lilith, because their son was named Archie, and I have a dog called Archie and a cat called Lilith (Lily for short).