Here are some simple tips to help them.

1. Link your garden with a Hedgehog Highway. Hedgehogs travel between1-2 km a night searching for food and a mate. Leaving a small gap in your fence the size of a CD case will let hedgehogs through but be too small for pets. BHPT/PTES sell snazzy little recyclable Hedgehog Highway signs, for a few pounds. Ask your neighbours to do the same!

2. Create a wild corner in your garden so they can snuffle around for insects.

3. Tidy up netting and litter which can trap hedgehogs due to their spines. Even rubber bands dropped by the postie can become embedded in their skin, causing a slow, painful death.

4. Put out food and water. You can supplement their diet with wet dog or cat food (preferably not fish based). No bread, milk or mealworms, which are all extremely bad for them. For those who are into simple DIY you can make a feeding station to stop other animals having a free supper - details on the BHPS website/YouTube

5. Stop using chemicals especially slug pellets. Hedgehogs are a gardener’s best friend as they eat slugs as well as many other beasties which would otherwise be devouring your prize flowers and vegetables.​

Dougie

Robert

A lady contacted our church and asked us if we could help in any way to save hedgehogs, by giving you advice for your garden and puting up an "awwwe" picture.

Isn't he gorgeous?                                                                          They are an endangered species so let's help them.

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                                                          Gnome Report- December 2025

 
Hello and welcome to the much-anticipated gnome report,
the goings on of the garden gnomes when everyone’s attention is                                      elsewhere. If you remember from the last report in September,
I informed you that the wood around the raised bed was rotten and would
need to be replaced. Well, the colourful wildflower arrangement within
this bed is still in full bloom as I write this report, consequently the
gnomes have been unable to tackle this substantial task. It will be
done when the flowers die off and are cleared allowing us unrestricted
access to facilitate the removal of the rotten wood and replacement with
good support pegs and planks.
The gnomes have just completed the task of erecting the cross for
Remembrance along with our own wee remembrance garden.
also placing the red filters over the outside lights to keep our place
on Poppy Scotland’s light up red map.
When the cross is taken down after remembrance time. The next
task will be to erect the Christmas tree and the outside display
which will be in its new position to the left of the Church front door
with its power supply for any illuminations.
Again, the garden gnomes, (it’s in their title), have been paying attention
to the gardens in the summer months. Planting flowers, weeding, cutting
the grass and pruning trees and bushes as required. They have also been
keeping the clothing bank under inspection to maximise any funds that
come the Churches way from this.
While the gnomes have been busy doing all these tasks, we noticed that
some of the window frames to the main street side of the sanctuary were
showing signs of rot. Our joiner friend was contacted for advice.
On further inspection, there were three windows on the main street side,
and the two big windows either side of the big front door of the Church
showing signs of rot at the bottom of the frames. It would appear we caught
this issue just in time. The rotten wood was removed and replaced with
good wood. All the replaced wood was undercoated with paint to preserve
for the future. The frames have still to be sealed using sand mastic, then
painted with a topcoat of paint. All this will be done when weather permits,
but the windows are now sound again. So, a big thankyou to our joiner
friend for all his help to date and indeed going forward. With a Church the
age of ours there will be other problems we’ll find going forward, of that I’m
quite sure.
There will be loads of other things the gnomes have dealt with since the last
Report, but these are a few of the main goings on.
There is nothing more for me to say except the gnomes wish you all
A very merry Christmas and a very happy 2026 when it arrives.
The gnomes are looking forward to their Christmas dinner,
You could be there as well. All that’s required is to come along on a
Wednesday afternoon at 1pm and join us. It’s up to you, you’re more than
Welcome. Phil Jordan. (Junior Gnome).      

 

 

    

Philip

George

Colin