Awards Season and Why You Should Blog For You

This is one of those posts which will either be taken in the way it is meant to, with tongue firmly in cheek and Mr Blue Sky on the stereo annoying the neighbours in a jolly fashion, or with hell and fury. Either or is cool.

Its just a little post to counteract all the "Eek! Who will nominate me? Am I good enough? " in the "Awards Season Crazy Month" which has just all started once again. Its like a bad smell or the lead up to a smear test. Inevitable and unavoidable. 

Is It Just Me: Or Is Award Hunger Killing Blogging?

So, this is probably going to either go one of three ways, this post. Either it will sit here without much notice, it will cause an interesting exchange of opinions,  or it will be taken out of context and cause screaming angst in certain parties and I'll scamper away to cover less incendiary topics again, such as Katie Price and the X Factor.

The word for the day, readers is "Awards" and what they do to usually pretty sane and intelligent people. Or bloggers, in this case.

Oh-My-Gawd-MADS Updates

EEk! Bah! Nominated for a Gurgle!

There I was, absent mindedly sitting in the garden reading my mail and half listening to the Nephews new tunes, when an email popped up.

Because I'm on Yahoo, it only tells you part of the subject unless you wave a mouse over it, so when I saw "You've been nominated" I actually thought, here we go, its a spam again!

I've had quite a few spam messages recently about my blog, asking me to sign up for this, that and the other- one of which hilariously asked me to run a dating site on the side of the blog. Tee hee, I did used to love Blind Date, but no one beats Cilla!

So, gettting back to the email, I clicked into it and nearly wet my pants.

I've been nominated for a Gurgle!

Thats a Blog award by the way! (Nope I didn't know about them either!)

I shouted and jumped about like a loon!

After Elder had been able to tell me to stop screeching and talk normally, I told him, and The Nephew, that I had been nominated by Gurgle for an award which is decided by, amongst others, Mylene off the telly!

I even get to go to an awards do after Cybermummy-so will be spending the day in my maxi dress trying not to spill food, drink or anything else over myself so I can sling a pair of heels on and some spangly earrings to do one of those effortless (on TV), day to night look whatsits. Or something like that anyway!

So, just wanted to say a massive thanks for reading the blog to you all, we are very close to my Blogversery  now, and I am workig on my first ever Meme to mark it.

And congrats to everyone else who is nominated too xx Anyone fancy sharing the tube with me to get there so I don't get lost and end up in darkest god-knows-where-ville?

And Mylene- if you're reading- Helllo love- I bought Hear'says first album, does that get me an extra vote? xxx

A New Award, and Passing It On

Thanks to the lovely Melissa at Smitten By Britain who has given me a "Superior Scribbler" award.

I am now passing it on as per the rules!

Another Day in the Madhouse (who cracks me up!)

Me, the Man and the Baby, (who has possibly the best URL address ever)

and 1 More Means 4

OMG Mummy

Violet Posy

And so, the rules of the award!

Each Superior Scribbler must pass the award on to 5 more deserving Bloggers

Each must link to the Author and Blog from whom they received the award

Each must display the award on their blog

Each must post the rules on their blog for those five to copy.

So, Well done to those of you who I've passed it on to, well deserved everyone!

A Very Good Tune, and Some Awards too!

First off, I spotted this on TMF whilst flicking through this afternoon (yes I have finally reclaimed the TV from Chrissy and the curse of CBeebies), the original by The Source and Candi Staton is one of my all time favourite records ever, ever, ever! I had already gained a respect for Florence Welch and her Machine as she calls her ever changing backing group, but this is genius.



And now, heres some awards that I have to pass on-I admit to a certain level of tardiness in handing them on, so sorry! But here goes-

This is going to Sandy at Baby Baby, (http://sandycalico.blogspot.com/), with much affection x

-and-

to Emily at Maternal Tales from the South Coast (http://emilybassin.blogspot.com), who it was as much a pleasure to meet, as it is to read her blog.

This I am giving to the lovely Carly at WADS (Wives and Daughters)  (http://wadswivesanddaughters.blogspot.com/) who has firmly established herself as an ace Mummy Blogger

-and-

Clare at Clareybabbling, (http://clareybabble.blogspot.com) not least for her brilliant blog but for her twittering expertise!


 Finally we have

This I shall be bestowing on Tim at Bringing Up Charlie (http://bringingupcharlie.blogspot.com/), purely for his selfless flash of chest for our amusement in his recent hilarious blog Hot or Dot?

Definitely recommend checking all those out!

Thanks for the continuing lovely comments I have received from you all x much love and best wishes I will bestow on all of you.