Sorry, yes I've been aware of my Bloscar nomination for a couple of weeks and had a fire lit under me by e-mail yesterday. By someone.
I'm not being disingenuous ... .. surprised by and proud of the nomination as I was ( puffs up chest, dons tiara and rubs raw onions in eyes)... I have already got what I came here for.
People obviously blog for different reasons, diaries, social commentary, support...sometimes to take a poke at the world with a pointy stick .
It's all good.
Whether we're in light or shade or looking for some contention, fun or comfort : techno-tropism is good for us.
I first blogged about 5 months ago because I was interested in what other people were saying about me and I wanted to engage with them more.
At the Liverpool blog fest, I was lucky as a comlete newcomer to meet many of you. Usually gobby gregarious I was vulnerable and rocky at that time, (recent events had left me feeling like a rat in a pet-shop who's been put in the cage next to a python ), but that blogmeet allowed me to wear a little bit of my black n' gold heart on my sleeve and get some things off my (now puffed-up) chest.
What I was delighted to learn yesterday from lyndlj was that she sees a thread of happiness and warmth in what I have shared with you. (I was aiming for literate, ascerbic and witty : happy and warm is nesh better!)
So sincere and 'umble thanks for the nomination... indeed for everything.
All the best to you !
* throws cakes and ale ..... *
(and not, for once in a mop-and-bucket way).
