Just in case any of you are interested, I am posting a link to a collection of tortoise/turtle poetry. Something to read while we miss our beasties during the hibernation period. My 3 are just about ready, a month earlier than last year. In large soil boxes, they are only slightly moving having been in for 3 weeks, and bathed twice weekly. temperature dropped gradually from 20 + degrees c to around 11 degrees currently...I hope we don't get another warm spell. Anyway here's the link:   http://www.chelonian.org/turtle-poetry/

Good luck everyone. Keep an eye on those thermometers, and hope we have none of the worries encountered last winter.

David nr York

Brilliant - will have a good look through:-)