The Blogpower Awards: Yet More Winning Ways

As our readers will be aware, the members of the As A Dodo team are always keen to hide their collective light, however brilliant it may be, under a bushel⁽¹⁾. Nonetheless, our pride and delight at being named The Best Blogpower Blog or Column in the Blogpower Awards are so overwhelming that we feel it incumbent on us to proclaim our victory from the very rooftops ... or at least from the pages of this blog.

May we convey our thanks to all those who voted for us, to all our supporters (including the noble, if obviously disturbed, soul at Guardian Unlimited commentisfree who keeps selecting us as one of their 'Picks of the Web') and to those behind the awards themselves. We also wish to congratulate our fellow finalists and winners, most of whom deserved their positions far more than did we.

Lastly we must convey the thinks of the extremely cute puppy and even cuter kitten we purchased for the purpose of extracting your votes. We are happy to say that the threat of being shot no longer hangs over them .... though given what they've done to the As A Dodo Towers carpet we say nothing about the possibility of them being introduced to a sack, some bricks and a river, in that order.

⁽¹⁾ though we admit that we have in the past felt it necessary to point out in some detail the location of said leafy hiding place.