As you may have noted from an earlier announcement we have transitioned to the weekly leaderboard for our monthly Top Blogger adjudication. Henceforth the winner will be decided on the basis of their ranking and points in the final weekly leaderboard of the month. Posts which were published in preceding months will be discounted. The reasons for this are twofold. Firstly the weekly leaderboards are much more responsive and competitive and secondly the monthly board has some strange quirks. In particular it insists on ranking a few ancient posts that have received no 'Likes' comments or recent traffic.

So without further ado here are this months winners:-

1. Mona Everett 43 points ( 23 ranking points plus 10 for quantity, Mona has been our most prolific blogger this month, plus 10 points for traffic, our stats indicate that Mona's posts have been very well received )

2. Peter Freeman 30 points ( 20 ranking points plus 10 for quality, the 'quality' points were awarded for Peter's 'Saint David , The Patron saint of Wales' post which combined personal reflection with historical fact in a highly engaging and informative manner )

3. Rhianne Griffiths 19 points ( 19 ranking points )

Fabulous digital prizes will be awarded to our three winners today and Mona will receive a copy of Niall Griffith's, 'The Dreams Of Max And Ronnie'. We will be announcing next months Top Blogger prize shortly. To view the current weekly leaderboard and peruse the rules of the competition go to this page

• This Months Prize

  
• 'The Dreams of Max And Ronnie' by Niall Griffiths

• Iraq-bound young squaddie Ronnie takes something dodgy and falls asleep for three nights in a filthy hovel where he has the strangest of dreams. He watches the tattoed tribes of modern Britain assemble to speak with a grinning man playing war games. Arthurian legend merges with its twenty-first century counterpart in a biting commentary on leadership, individualism and the divisions in British society. Meanwhile Cardiff gangsta Max is fed up with life in his favourite nightclub, Rome, and chases a vision of the perfect woman in far flung parts of his country.

  http://www.serenbooks.com/book/the-dreams-of-max-and-ronnie/9781854115027?cid=176