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December Winner: Markulous and Year Winner: Wild Canon

Congratulations to Markulous on winning the final competition of 2009 and Wild Canon on winning the overall competition for the year!

The top 3 members this year were:

1st - Wild Canon (80 votes)
2nd - Markulous (40 votes)
3rd - Keith (33 votes)

Congratuations to all three of you and also a big thanks to everyone who entered this year. If you'd like to know your score then please contact Jamie.

As you know, this was Jamie's last month running the competition so a huge thank you to him from everyone at the forum. He's run the competition brilliantly and I'm sure you'll agree it's been a big success.

There will be no January competition this year but hopefully we should have something sorted for February.

Thanks and happy new year!

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Hedgehogs & Bonfires

I know its is a bit late to post this, but I'm trying to get the word around:

The 5th November is a very dangerous time for Hedgehogs. Before you set them alight, bonfires are a 'Hedgehog Hotel'. They make the ideal shelter for a tired and cold Hedgehog. But when you light your bonfire, you may burn more than one Hedgehog to death.

Solution- There are a few ways you can avoid burning a Hedgehog to death, these are:

-To build your bonfire on the actual night

-To check your bonfire for Hedgehogs

-To move the bonfire before you light it

-To fence the bonfire off. Do this as soon as you build the bonfire otherwise, if you leave it a few Days, then fence it off, when you set it alight you will trap any Hedgehogs in there.

OR DON'T BUILD A BONFIRE!
More information on my website (signature)

Thank you,
Bethany.