I have to finally confess defeat.
Last October, Paul Waters, the writer, kindly nominated me for two awards: The Versatile Blogger Award and the One Lovely Blog Award. I consider the nominations an honour coming from someone with Paul's background and current output. You can check him out here.
To actually claim the awards two sets of conditions had to be fulfilled. And therein lay the problem. The first condition was to nominate 15 other blogs for the awards (and they in turn would have to nominate a further 15 and so on) and the second condition was to share 7 random things about yourself.
I fell at the first fence and couldn't come up with 15 other bloggers on whom I could rely to pass on the obligation. Unlike many other bloggers I only follow very few other blogs and even then don't have any contact with most of those bloggers.
The 7 random items was not a problem and you can see those below.
So I took my case to conciliation and arbitration, with Paul in the chair, and the finding was that the 7 random items would suffice and I could display reduced size award logos in one blogpost only but not on my template.
So here are the awards
and here are the 7 random things about me:
- Slept overnight in a police cell in Longford
- Was stood up by Hoppalong Cassidy in Butlins
- Skipped a visit to a bra factory in France to visit the local newpaper
- Got a French computer in Paris to respond to English language voice commands.
- Bounced the President of Ireland (Mary Robinson) off a VIP luncheon guest list in London.
- Lived on Yeats's Isle of Inisfree (for a week)
- Accepted an offer from an RUC man to look after my (southern registered) car outside the Guildhall in Derry for a whole day