Competititon results part 2

Happy new year everyone.  It is time for me to announce the competition winners for my new year competition.  As always I wish everyone could win so I am always a bit sad when it comes to doing the draw and announcing the winners.  All the winners will also be contacted via Twitter as well.  Here they are.

The first number to be generated was number 39 which is @yayStella, who wins a monkey or owl adoption from the haven on Kolo Island.  Stella please go to the website http://www.owlandmonkeyhaven.co.uk/adoption-form.aspx?package=Silver and choose your monkey or owl.  Then DM me the monkey or owl you would like and confirm where you would like your adoption papers to be sent to.

The second number to come out was number 26 which is Arf (@MonkeysBrother.  Arf has won the rabbit T-shirt.  Arf I know you don't speak German (or perhaps you do I shouldn't assume) but please go to the website http://www.hasenfarm.com/pages/de/home.php and look the styles, sizes and colours and let me know what you would like and DM me with colour, size and style and confirm where you would like it to be sent to.

The third number to come out was 33 which is Bijntje.  Bijntje will win the baboon prize.  More about that later.  Bijntje I will post it on Saturday, hope that is OK, the post office here is closed till Tuesday and that is when my person goes back to work.  Please DM me and confirm where you would like it sent.

I am sorry to everyone else, but I have two more competitions planned in the near future.  On 1 February I will be announcing my Valentine's competition to be drawn on Valentine's day and I will also talk to Snuffy about including a prize in the next edition of Fauguex.

I just wish everyone a happy new year and a great 2012 and hope you will all enter my future competitions.

Thank your for entering this one and good luck next time.

Tweeting baboons

I just wanted to tell everyone how happy it makes me being on Twitter.  This is my 3rd Christmas on Twitter and every year it gets more and more important to me.  I only started on Twitter in summer 2009 so that I could see my good friend @hi_im_monkey's pictures when he was touring Tibet.  I never intended tweeting or anything like that and I didn't really know how it worked.  But boy did that take off.  The first pal to talk to me was my good friend @marleyterrier. I don't even know how he knew I was there.  He was followed by @jedbramwell and it took off from there, suddenly people were following me and I was following them and I suddenly had lots of friends.



Because we had recently been to visit Monkey in Texas my first Twitter picture showed me in my Longhorns T-shirt with my armadillo Arty who had been bought for me at the Alamo in San Antonio.  Because of this lots of people thought I was Texan. I also confused people by saying that I was from the deep South on the sunshine coast.  Well I'm English and in English terms I do live in the deep South on the sunshine coast.  Never mind we soon sorted that confusion out.

Lots of things have happened to me because of Twitter.  From the minute I arrived with my family I was well loved and made part of the family but I did used to stay at home quietly when my people went to work and I never went out and about.  Because of Twitter I have been to all sorts of places.

I met my good friend Henry (@henryandfriends) and that led to meeting more folks.

Last year I spent a lovely day at the Monkey and Owl Haven on my island where @AdoptedMonkeys live.  I was lucky enough to meet @BearBerkely there as well.  We also had a fantastic picnic in the New Forest in 2009.



We had buns and bananas. 

We had a lovely day on the steam railway with @MrsFiddlesticks and @tim_kirby.

 Lots of pals joined us when I drove the train away! Heee heee heee!

 @kyba @zackrabbit @syd_pie and @tweetypie54 all joined us for the fun.

I have done so many things I would never had done without Twitter I can't list all of it.  But it has all made me very happy.

A great hightlight has been having Lippe to stay during his world tour.  He was great fun to have around!

Amazing things have happened.  During the world cup my housemate Leroy joined me on Twitter to comment on the football.  I love football but he is football crazy.

He still pops up on Twitter sometimes and he often travels instead of me as he is much smaller.  He went to America at Easter and met @pinkbunnyr in LA.

You can see @him_im_monkey and my brother Henry in the picture.  We are wearing our Bearmani outfits that @snuffy_norton made for them.  They had lots of adventures in the US with our friend Monkey.

Leroy has also been to London and met @dogstoyevsky's mum.

and another day he met @choc_the_moose, they at massive pizzas I don't know how they managed to eat so much they are so small.

The world cup was great fun.  Particularly I am thinking of my dear friend Mookie who enjoyed it so much.

After I made my world cup pizza that represented the English flag Mookie made a German flag pizza.  We had such fun following the world cup together and football fans will be amazed as the English and Germans don't usually see eye to eye when it comes to football.  Mookie and I are such good friends that that didn't matter to us.

The world cup brought lots of friends into football or back to football and produced a lot of new Arsenal fans including @marshallsheldon and @ollyted.  It also enabled me to meet a lot of other Arsenal fans on Twitter and we tweet during games.

I have done so many things because of Twitter, things I would never have had a chance to do and I have met some fantastic pals who I love so much.  I don't get on to Twitter as much as I would like but there is always a warm welcome when I do arrive.  I wish I could mention all my friends.

There are also sad times on Twitter.  We are often sad to see friends who are ill or who go over the rainbow bridge.  I nearly gave up tweeting when dear Mookie went over the bridge it was such a sad time and so sudden.  Again I nearly stopped when we lost Gunner (@tweetypie54).  Of course anyone going over the bridge is met by dear @PepiSmartDog our dear pal who welcomes them.  I hope Pepi will let me visit and play football again with dear Mookie and see other friends that have gone over the bridge.



Well that is a long post and tells just a bit about what Twitter means to me.  I can't express the whole of how I feel even if I write a post as long as War and Peace.  Twitter has meant friendship, laughter, tears and frustration when it doesn't work properly.  In other words the whole world can be found in Twitter.

Thank you all for being my friends.  I wish I could be around more but life isn't like that.

Competition Part 2

I hope your Christmas is going well.

Those monkeys, owls and bunnies really need our help and hey after the excitement of new year things can feel like a bit of an anti-climax. So I am announcing part two of my competitioin, the new year draw.

All of the people who entered last time and did not win anything will be carried forward and this is an opportunity for other pals to enter as well.  See instructions below.

The prizes are almost the same, but not quite,  baboons like to keep surprises up their sleeves.  Again there are 3 first prizes.

1. An adopted primate or owl from the Owl and Monkey haven near my home on the island http://www.owlandmonkeyhaven.co.uk/
2. A T-shirt of the colour of your choice from Kaninchenretterin to help our dear friend Miriam with the work she does to rescue rabbits http://www.kaninchenrettung.de/
3. An amazing mystry prizes that will really surprise you.

If you entered for the Christmas draw your name will be carried forward if you didn't win.  For everyone else there are three ways to enter this competition.

1. Leave a comment on this blog saying that you wish to enter.
2. Send me a DM to @Kolo_Martin on Twitter. If you find I do not follow you please send me a message so you can DM me.
3. For my friends on Can Be Social, if you are not on Twitter please leave a message on my CBS wall.

I don't ask my dear anipals to do anything to enter the competition as I could never judge between their entries. Please enter just be sending me a message in one of the ways listed above.

The competition will be drawn on New Years Day at 9 am and the winners will be announced and contacted via this blog, Twitter or Can Be Social.

Good luck and please enter.

Have a lovely Christmas and New Year.

Lots of love and HUGS HUGS HUGS from Kolo

Announcing the winners

Well its Christmas eve and I have drawn the competition.  I will be sending a DM to each of the winners but here is the announcement.  I used a random number generator and generated 3 numbers these were.

1. MarleyTerrier - wins a monkey or owl adoption - http://www.owlandmonkeyhaven.co.uk/adoption-form.aspx?package=Silver Marley can select his owl or monkey from the website.

2. Happpiii - wins a T-shirt from our dear friend Miriam's bunny sanctuary - http://www.hasenfarm.com/pages/de/motive/kaninchenrettung.php it is in German so I will ask Happpiii to select style, size and colour and I will use Google translator to do the order.

3. Mogsbear - wins a rehomed cuddly baboon who will be posted after Christmas (we will give him a nice Christmas dinner before he leaves so he should arrive quite happy.

Congratulations to all the winners.  I wish you could all win, if you didn't win this time look out for my next competition.

Thank you to all of you for entering.

TV assembly

I have had a very busy morning. Our man person decided to upgrade the television and get HD so we needed a new sky box as well and then we needed a new TV stand cos the TV was too big for the old one.  Well I arranged all that but then it all had to be set up.  I knew this was a job for superbaboon!

It did all look a bit complicated with all those wires and stuff and then I would have to get the TV onto the stand.  I might need help there.

Ah but there is not just one baboon in this house there is a whole troup of them so we managed it together.

Yayayayaaaa we did it between us.  Nowe we can watch Arsenal play Manchester City in HD!  Go Gunners!

You might have noticed a baboon you haven't seen in our house before he is Bradley the 6th and last baboon to join our troup.  He was sent to us at the Kolo Martin re-homing centre so that I could find him a new loving home.  He is a great character and he has some problems with his hips.  He did live in a home before so we decided we would keep him at the re-homing centre as one of our troup.  He is the last baboon we will be keeping here but we will continue to re-home baboons in need.

Here is a closer look at Bradley.  I am sure you will see he is a great character.

Wouldn't you all like a bright shirt like his? His badge says his name is Bradley so we knew.

HO HO HO!!!

Hello everyone I only seem to pop in here every so often but I always think about you.

This the time of year for baboons to run competitions.  This year's competition has three first prizes:

1. An adopted primate or owl from the Owl and Monkey haven near my home on the island http://www.owlandmonkeyhaven.co.uk/
2. A T-shirt of the colour of your choice from Kaninchenretterin to help our dear friend Miriam with the work she does to rescue rabbits http://www.kaninchenrettung.de/
3. To rehome a small cuddly baboon trained, by me, to give fantastic Kolo patented HUGS HUGS HUGS. Don't worry this baboon will not be as big as me so you won't have to buy as much food as my people have to.

There are three ways to enter this competition.

1. Leave a comment on this blog saying that you wish to enter.
2. Send me a DM to @Kolo_Martin on Twitter.  If you find I do not follow you please send me a message so you can DM me.
3. For my friends on Can Be Social, if you are not on Twitter please leave a message on my CBS wall.

I don't ask my dear anipals to do anything to enter the competition as I could never judge between their entries.  Please enter just be sending me a message in one of the ways listed above.

The competition will be drawn on Christmas Eve at 10 am and the winners will be announced and contacted via this blog, Twitter or Can Be Social.

Good luck and please enter.

Lots of love and HUGS HUGS HUGS from Kolo

Bruvva

Hello everyone I am sorry I haven't blogged for a while its been hard with my person's new job as my last blog post explained.  Now I have news, a big surprise so I wanted to share it with my friends.

You all know me and most of you are aware of my bruvva Yaya who came to live with us a year ago, but look how many baboon there are in our house now.

Yes, there are five of us now three baboons and two mandrills Kolo, Roco and Yaya at the back and Arne and Archie at the front.  However, look at this next picture.

You may have noticed that one of the new baboons looks rather like me, although he is a smaller version, he is my new brother Roco.  He came all the way fro Texas which just confirms what I knew in my heart all along, I am a Texan.  He is my new younger brother, we rescued him from eBay where he was looking for a new home.  We couldn't believe it when we saw him looking so like me.  He is less than half my size but he does look rather like me doesn't he.

We gave him an Arsenal shirt like Yaya's straight away and now he is having to learn all about that.  Of course he is also a Longhorn's fan like me and Yaya although I don't think Yaya is Texan I think he is from one of the northern states of the US.

Yesterday when my person arrived home from work they found a package wriggling about outside the door so we knwo what that was.  When we opened it we knew this was my new brother, he is darker than me but I used to be dark like that too so he may fade a bit like I have.  He will be able to help me cos I am really far too big to go out and friends who have met me lately have seen that my skin on my face is cracking a bit and getting delicate so I cannot go out if it is at all damp, but he can and he will be easier to carry around than I am.  It will also free me up to do my new job of advising Mr Wenger on the running of Arsenal.



Well so now we are a troup of five young baboons who play together and have fun.  We all have our jobs to do, we do some household chores and I help to run Arsenal.  We also help our people after they have had a hard day at work and the little mandrill, Arne, sometimes goes to work with people if they are going to have a hard day.

We are very happy and we feel that our family is large enough now.  Obviously if more baboons need to be rescued we would do that and we would always make room for the baboon like me who works in the shop when he needs a home, but we are quite a handful now aren't we!

So a new bruvva in the Martin household I hope he will like it here, we are welcoming him with all of our favourite foods, fish and chips yesterday,  homemade pizza today and macaroni and cheese tomorrow.  Not the healthiest of weekends but its important to welcome a baboon with food he will like.  Of course we also have to buy extra bananas now as well.

From December 2003 to September 2010, when Yaya arrived, I was the only baboon here, look at us now!