Versatile Blogger Award

Last week I was lucky enough to be passed on another award, from the wonderful Irene Waters – thank you, Irene!

Irene Waters is a writer and memoirist; her blog is full of beautiful words and images and most definitely worth visiting. Here’s the link:

http://irenewaters19.com/

Although it has taken me a week to get around to it, I would like to accept this award. For the first time since I started this blog last November, I have found it a struggle to keep it going, but it is very encouraging to get these little badges!

Here are the rules for accepting the Versatile Blogger Award:

• Thank the person who gave you this award. That’s common courtesy.
•  Include a link to their blog. That’s also common courtesy — if you can figure out how to do it.
•  Next, select 15 blogs/bloggers that you’ve recently discovered or follow regularly. ( I would add, pick blogs or bloggers that are excellent!)
•  Nominate those 15 bloggers for the Versatile Blogger Award — you might include a link to this site.
•  Finally, tell the person who nominated you 7 things about yourself.

Accepting this award has meant looking around for more excellent blogs to nominate, and in doing so I have discovered a few new ones – all worth visiting:

http://lifeonespoonfulatatime.com/

http://highestformofwhit.wordpress.com/

http://katelester.wordpress.com/

http://beretolsen.wordpress.com/

http://thesoniashow.wordpress.com/

http://prettyredshoes.com/

http://friendlyfairytales.com/

http://outlawmama.com/

http://javaadvenlu.wordpress.com/

http://talesfromthemotherland.me/

http://trentsworldblog.wordpress.com/

http://theuglyvolvo.com/

http://rainydayinmay.com/

http://imissyouwheniblink.com/

http://shardsofsilence.wordpress.com/

Now, for 7 facts about me:

1) I am left handed – this used to be a disadvantage, until keyboards became more common than pen and paper – as the most common letter combinations are on the left of the keyboard, I can type at lightning speed.

2) I gain enormous satisfaction from removing the soft fluff from the dryer filter, and always wonder if there is a use for it?

3) I love the colour red, and every house I have chosen to live in has had a red wall somewhere

4) I was born an hour after Valentine’s Day.

5) My guilty pleasure is listening to Pink

6) My husband and I are currently catching up on Breaking Bad via Netflix, to see what all the fuss is about – this series is responsible for the bags under our eyes, as we watch one episode after another after the kids have gone to bed

7) I learned to ice skate at the age of 35, with my then 7-year-old daughter (she soon overtook me).

And now – back to this week’s half-term occupation of trying to detach the kids from the TV….