Blog of the Year? Apparently it’s me!

And so to the Blog of the Year Award 2013

I am very proud to be able to say that I’ve been nominated for the Blog of the Year 2013 Award by the Alisha, that brilliant blogger of Poemotherapi Shoppe (a blog name which I have surely mispronounced many a time in the privacy of my own head!)

Rules for Blog of the Year Award:

1-Select the blog you think deserve the Blog Of The Year 2013 Award.

2-Write a post about the blog you have chosen (there are no minimum or maximum number of blogs required) and ‘present’ the blog(s) with their award.

3-Let the blog(s) you have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the instructions with them

4-Come over and say hello to the originator of the Blog Of The Year 2013 Award via this link: http://thethoughtpalette.co.uk/blog-awards-2-/blog-of-the-year-2013-award/

5-You can now also join the Blog Of The Year Award Facebook Page. Click the link here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlogoftheYear to share your blog posts with an even wider audience.

6-Finally, as a winner of the award, please add a link back to the blog that presented you with the award-and then

Proudly display the award on your blog – and start collecting stars!

Here Is My Awardee:

[As he has a host of followers & awards, he may already be the proud owner of this one – never mind, multiplicity is no bad thing!]

Hooray for Shaun @ Praying for one day

Meanwhile…

Happy New Year….

 

 

 

Parliament? It’s an award, apparently!

The Parliament Award was created by Bishop Eddie Tatro, (you should check out his blog, if you haven’t already), and was given to me by Ewa  from fibromyalgiaandselfdisorders. It is really appreciated!

The Rules of this Award are simple:

1. Firstly, display the Award on your site (see Award page or sidebar!) You earned it and you deserve it!
2. List a few things that make you a loyal member.
3. Thank the person who nominated you and link back to their blog.
4. Nominate at least five (5) well deserving bloggers whose loyalty and love you value and consider part of your Parliament and Pack; for the Award and let them know the wonderful news by sending them a message on their site.

Here we go…:

1. I try to make each of my posts a meaningful or entertaining read. If you’re going to take the time to read what I write, I want to make it worth your while.
2. I try to write every week but the more astute amongst you will have noticed that I take the occasional sabbatical. It’s nothing personal, I simply didn’t find that spark that was worth your time. Be patient – I always turn up again, like the proverbial bad penny!
3 The last two years (longer?) have taken me on a pretty amazing journey. Some if it fantastic, some of it pretty tearful. I’m trying to share the highlights.
4 If I read something that I like, well, I ‘like’ it.
5 I love comments, whether good or bad. Feedback is the breakfast of champions & you guys keep me sharp.

So. Over to the nominations…

I would include the legendary Bishop himself but as he created the award, it would seem a little narcissistic, so Eddie my friend, you will have to be content the mention in the very sentence of this post! (…and in the last one – almost)

1. secondhalfwoman

2. jadereyner

3. heilablog

4. herheartandsoul

5. petitemagique

Thank you & have a fantastic 2014

 

‘The pick of the bunch’ Awards

Someone I have the occasional short commentersation with on WordPress and a deservedly popular blog I choose to follow because it always makes me smile, Ajaytao has offered me the pick of his bunch of Awards. To tell you the truth, I’m flattered he notices what I do.

Given that following rules isn’t really his style, these awards come with no strings attached, no linkbacks to others.

So with just a good old-fashioned thank you, these are the Awards:

Doubly Inspiring! …and doubly flattered…

It is slightly surreal to find that I have been nominated TWICE for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award in the same week. Multi-thanks go out warmly to both bloomlisa and to flowersforthemoon for their nominations.

It’s only 10 months since I began this, my first ever blog, about my journey into Cognitive Hypnotherapy. It has been incredibly interesting and seems to have fascinated all of us. Thank you for joining in along the way.

The rules for accepting the Very Inspiring Blogger Award are as follows:

1. Display the Award Certificate on your website.
2. Announce your win with a post and link to whoever presented you with the award.
3. Present 15 awards to deserving bloggers.
4. Drop them a comment to tip them off after you have linked them in the post.
5. Post 7 interesting things about yourself.

This is the interesting me: (maybe)

1. I am related to the last person to be beheaded in England (at Tower Hill just outside the Tower of London).

2. I once played trombone in Westminster Abbey.

3. I am also a Chartered Financial Planner (but then some of you already know).

4. I have driven through a plague of very sticky Aussie locusts.

5. I am half Australian, half English, a quarter Scottish, entirely from Yorkshire and married the half Welsh, half Scottish love of my life. I am therefore genetically confused.

6. I have pets for no other reason than I have no pets.

7. I don’t see the point of celery.

15 Deserving Bloggers

1. Ajaytao

2. anisja rossi

3. The Worlds top 10 of anything and everything

4. Hovercraftdoggy

5. The Better man Project

6.The Daily Post (I know it’s not quite a proper blog but very useful nonetheless)

7. Lateral Love Australia

8. Finding My Inner Courage

9. transcendingbordersblog

10. clumsyfool

11. Eddie Two Hawks 

12. Readful things blog

13. Bucket List Publications

14.The War In my Brain

15. My Journey through M.E.

Check them out. You might like them too.

Look what happened!

I was very surprised to find that I’d been nominated for this Award by Dawn @ http://findingmyinnercourage.wordpress.com. I’ve not been nominated for any blogging awards before so I’m kind of new to all this.

Thank you Dawn. By the way, if you’ve not read Dawns’ blog yet, I’d highly recommend it.

However, there are some things I have to do to properly receive this: there are rules…

The rules for receiving the SUNSHINE AWARD:

• Include the award’s logo in a post or on your Blog. (done)
• Answer 10 questions about yourself. (see below)
• Nominate 10 Bloggers. (also below)
• Link your nominees to the post and comment on their Blogs, letting them know they have been nominated. (done)
• Link the person who nominated you. (absolutely done!)

Ten Questions: 

1. Favourite colour: Blue
2. Favourite animal: Barn Owl
3. Favourite number:  don’t have one
4. Favourite non-alcoholic drink:  Water
5. Prefer Facebook or Twitter?  Twitter
6. My passion:  Cognitive Hypnotherapy
7. Prefer getting or giving presents:  Getting. I’m a small child at heart (and at Xmas)
8. Favourite pattern:  refracted light in random places
9. Favourite day of the week: this one
10. Favourite flower: the ones Gill picked from the garden

I now Nominate 10 bloggers

1. FEC-THis @ http://fecthis.wordpress.com/

2. They Say It’s In the Genes @ http://avgenes.wordpress.com/

3. Scott Williams @ http://scott-williams.ca/

4. Art of Stumbling @ http://artofstumbling.wordpress.com/

5. Feisty Blue Gecko @ http://feistybluegeckofightsback.wordpress.com/

6. Adopting James @ http://adoptingjames.wordpress.com/

7. Fibromyalgia: The diary of a pain warrior @ http://fibromyalgiathis.wordpress.com/

8. Raison D’etre @ http://oneraisondetre.wordpress.com/

9. Mirrors of Encounters @ http://julienmatei.com/

10. Life Lived Now @ http://buddhasalblog.com/