Very Inspiring Blogger Award
It’s a lovely honour to have received two Very Inspiring Blogger awards from two really special, inspirational, and incredibly talented ladies. Many, many thanks to dear Vashti and Taz. Go check out their sites – you’ll love them both.
Transcending Borders
Vashti Quiroz-Vega
The rules for accepting (although you don’t have to accept) these awards are:
1. Display the award logo on your blog.
2. State 7 things about yourself.
3. Nominate 15 bloggers for this award, and link back to them.
So… Seven Things About Me:
1. I love positive people. I think if you think negative thoughts all the time, you attract negative things.
2. I believe in Karma. What goes around comes around – eventually.
3. I love antiques, and have so many collections most of them have to be stashed away.
4. I have celiac disease, so I don’t eat gluten. I also don’t eat meat, and have discovered that without these things, I can eat my body weight in cheese and sweets every month without putting on a gram. So I do.
5. My chosen career was in sales and marketing.
6. I make my own tomato ketchup from scratch every year.
7. I can’t tell jokes.
And now my nominees. These are fifteen of my favourite blogs. I don’t only follow writer guys, as you will see below. I love to read about people’s real lives, really enjoy a good laugh, and like to keep up to date on the latest cool footwear too. Here are my fifteen great blog offerings for you to enjoy:
Ben’s Bitter Blog
Chris The Story Reading Ape
Disappearing In Plain Sight
I Hide My Chocolate
I Love To Read
Lawrence Grodecki
The Worlds Top Ten of Anything and Everything
Writings of a Mrs
Counting Ducks
Jcckeith
Jas Thinking Aloud
Style Salvation
Lucy Pireel
Different Shades of Reality
Marian Allen
Jo Robinson 
June 28, 2013 at 12:02 pm
Thank you my dearie Jo! I’m storing this and will follow up but busy, busy and must do other stuff before I can address to this. I will how ever grab the button and place it on my blog (liking back to yours.)
xoxo
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June 29, 2013 at 1:07 pm
There’s no time limit busy Lucy bee – the butterfly is lovely too isn’t it? You’ll have to get used to lots of awards – we all love what you have to say and share. Keep those posts coming! 😀 xx
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June 29, 2013 at 1:55 pm
Thanks my Jo dearie xoxo Yours isn’t any less worthy of all the awards there are to give. 🙂
xoxo
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June 30, 2013 at 11:03 am
Love the awards! I wonder where they started – going to have a look….. 😀 xxx
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June 28, 2013 at 12:20 pm
THANK YOU JO 🙂
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June 29, 2013 at 1:02 pm
You deserve HUNDREDS of awards Chris! Apart from loving the bookish vibe and your freebie fridays, it’s fantastic how your warm and giving nature is growing your site so quickly – don’t forget me when you hit the top of the bloggersphere! 😀
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June 29, 2013 at 1:47 pm
You’re VERY kind to an old Ape Jo (he says head down to hide embarrassment, sucking thumb and drawing shy circles in the dust with foot) 🙂
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June 30, 2013 at 11:05 am
Aaaaw! You should get the cute award too! I’m guessing that nobody’s ever tried to see what would happen if they used the M word on the Librarians blog. 😀
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June 30, 2013 at 11:12 am
M also stands for M-U-R-D-E-R M-O-S-T FOUL 🙂
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June 30, 2013 at 11:37 am
Eeeeeek! I never would though – bring on the bananas! 😀
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June 30, 2013 at 11:40 am
You REALLY know how to get to an Ape’s heart Jo – through his banana filled tum 🙂
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June 30, 2013 at 2:06 pm
And I’ll be sending a piano and some ale too now, after finding new friends thanks to your reblog. Thank you Chris! You’re an amazingly cool friend. 😀
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June 30, 2013 at 3:08 pm
I’m Swiiinnngggg in the rain (not really, sun’s out so I’m going out too)
It’s always great to find new friends Jo, ENJOY 🙂
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June 30, 2013 at 3:42 pm
Cool Chris! After all this slagging off of pretenders, I need new friends. Need to get back into my Unseen Academicals again too. I think pucker writing and laughter is the order of the day. 😀
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June 28, 2013 at 12:38 pm
Thank you so, so much for this award Jo but I am afraid I have
already been nominated for it and attached it to my website, but I still am very grateful for you choosing me and a little bit honoured to have it again so I will follow the rules and pass it on. I hope this is OK.
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June 29, 2013 at 12:59 pm
It’s a pleasure Russell – I had to share your site though – I love it! Anything you do will be most cool. Have you got the butterfly version of the award up too? I haven’t seen it before – a different button for the same award. 😀
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June 28, 2013 at 1:09 pm
Thank you, my dear,dear Jo. I’m glad you mentioned that you can’t tell jokes, otherwise I might have taken this nomination as one ;P Am going to display this logo very soon but before that I’ll have to find 15 blogs to read 🙂 You and Jennie are certainly on my list!
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June 29, 2013 at 12:54 pm
A pleasure my dear poetess! I’m looking forward to more of these from you, when you’re not scribbling your next book. I don’t think you can put me on your list for these two though – ha haaaa – imagine getting the same awards over and over. 😀 Then I’ll award them to you again, and we can carry on for ever. See? Maybe I can tell a joke…. 😀 xx
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June 29, 2013 at 1:54 pm
Hey, that sound so perfect! I love the merry-go-round ;D Sigh…if only the world outside my poetry-bubble would work that way too!
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June 30, 2013 at 11:04 am
You’d get very dizzy dear Jas. 😀
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June 28, 2013 at 1:19 pm
Thank you, dear Jo! Beautiful badges and new blogs to visit! 🙂
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June 29, 2013 at 12:48 pm
Pleasure gorgeous! The amazing profundity (been wanting to use that word for a bit) and absolute coolness of your stories means I had to give you the double too. Did I spell profundity right? 😀 xx
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June 28, 2013 at 6:28 pm
Thanks Jo! I’ll be checking out the other blogs as well – always up for finding new blogs to enjoy.
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June 29, 2013 at 12:42 pm
You have loads of awards already, but I know you’ll get loads more. I really love your posts, and totally connect with your opinions and humour too. I’m also a blog collector – it’s cool to find more. You guys nominated above are all brilliant!
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June 29, 2013 at 6:20 am
I think it is funny that you are such a positive person and you nominate a bitter blog for an inspiring award. I think this is why the word irony was invented.
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June 29, 2013 at 12:40 pm
Your bitter blog puts a smile on my dial every day. 😀 Especially the one that got posted too soon, and prompted a further bitter blog – love it! I’m a bit keen to see how you bitterly accept your award – really hope you do! Bring on the irony. 😀
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June 29, 2013 at 3:52 pm
That post that got posted to soon was the most bitter day of my life. Other than all the other bitter days I have had ever.
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June 30, 2013 at 11:02 am
We all felt really, deeply, genuinely sorry for you – promise! 😀
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July 1, 2013 at 12:50 am
And as always I felt bitter about it. I should have expected it from my traitor phone.
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June 30, 2013 at 5:11 am
Thanks so much for nominating me sweetie and Congratulations to you too on your awards! 🙂
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June 30, 2013 at 10:55 am
Thanks! It’s a pleasure, and keep those gorgeous new things coming for me to just have to have! 😀
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