Try saying that after a couple of glasses of wine!

This petition has received such wonderful support - and if politicians were acting a bit less like a room full of sugared-up toddlers, all having a tantrum because they can't get what they want, then maybe they could start paying some attention to the need to help wildlife. 

So - I am doing other things to help this campaign along - and have linked up with Low Carbon West Oxford to reach out to all the fence contractors and garden centres in Oxfordshire.

I have a campaign called HedgeOx - county-focussed work looking at how best to help hedgehogs. Much of it is really about connections - about the connections between gardens and the connections between people. It was as HedgeOx that I was drilling holes.

With LCWO we have asked these companies to join our HedgeOx Hog-Hole Roll of Honour by committing to doing some or all of the following:

Promote fencing with pre-cut hedgehog holes (13x13cm) to all new customers;
Offer free or low-cost service to create holes in new fences during installation - and the offer to create holes in other existing fences too;
Access to a fence cutter for making holes for customers to borrow;
Hosting of a leaflet at your main point of customer contact outlining the needs for hedgehog holes and the simple actions we can all undertake;
Promotion and stocking of green 'hedgehog highway' signs.

The letters went out on Friday - and an email blitz will reinforce that message this afternoon. They have until 1st May to respond and then we will announce who has made it onto this prestigious Roll of Honour! 

And if you can't wait that long for some excitement, I invite you all to Oxford, to Florence Park in particular - for Sunday - when there will be a Hedgehog Bake-off and fancy dress party ... book in a cake, get your hedgehog costume on (I am assuming you all have one!) and I will share words of wisdom in between mouthfuls of wonderful cake!