Category: Blogging

Awards

Published on by Margaret8 Comments

i-keep-coming-back-for-moreThis summer I received two awards, which I haven’t acknowledged on this blog (my excuse is house-hunting, we may be near the end of that now, but I mustn’t say too much in case it all falls through).

Cathy of Kittling Books gave me the I Keep Coming Back for More Award. In her words:

The I Keep Coming Back for More! Award is for a blog you just can’t stay away from. If you’ve been busier than a one-armed paperhanger with the hives and your Google reader is over 1,000 unread posts, these are the blogs that you single out to read. These are the ones that are never victims to the dreaded Mark All As Read. There may be many different reasons why you can’t stay away: a taste in books that mirrors your own, the same sense of humor, always knowing the latest in the book world… for whatever the reason, these blogs are flat out addictive and you have no wish to be cured!

I like this award – thank you very much, Cathy, yours is a blog I keep coming back to! I also like your rules:

  • Enjoy the award. If you don’t want to put it on your blog, don’t. Just get the warm, fuzzy feeling that I’m sending your way!
  • You don’t have to reveal any deep, dark secrets about yourself or answer any sort of questions. You’ve already earned it!
  • You don’t have to link back to me.
  • You don’t have to give it to anyone else.

Simple, huh? Now, if you do want to give this award to someone else, that’s a whole ‘nuther kettle of fish.
If you do want to pass it along to some of those addictive book blogs in your reader, just follow the same four rules I outlined above. This is a pay-it-forward award. Nothing is to be expected in return!

As I ‘ve been away a lot recently my Google Reader is overflowing, full to bursting in fact with so many posts to read. Actually I very rarely mark all the blogs in my Reader as read, although I do scroll down them when there are a lot. I wouldn’t want to miss a good post! I regularly click over to the blogs rather than reading them in the reader. I’m passing on this award to:

Thinking about it, I’m also passing it on to all the bloggers in my blogroll as they all write blogs I read and enjoy.superior scribbler award

Then Jane of Reading, Writing, Working Playing gave me the Superior Scribbler Award. I love this image and the idea that someone thinks I’m a “superior scribbler” tickles me pink! Thank you so much Jane.

Again if you’re on my blogroll I’m passing this award on to you.

Not So Wordless Wednesday – Eggsplosion

Published on by Margaret24 Comments

To make exploding eggs:

  • Take two eggs and place them in a saucepan
  • Cover with water and put on the cooker to boil
  • Take a cup of tea upstairs
  • Sit down at computer to finish writing a post for your blog
  • Get completely engrossed in writing
  • Wonder what that funny smell is
  • Have a look out of the window to see if next door neighbours are having a barbecue
  • Can’t see them and decide someone must be having a bonfire
  • Go back to writing
  • When you hear an explosion run downstairs to see what the cat has broken
  • Find a burned out saucepan and the cooker covered in bits of egg

Note to Self : Don’t blog and boil eggs at the same time!

Check out other Wordless Wednesday participants.

A – Z Author Index

Published on by Margaret7 Comments

I’ve been busy this last week compiling an A – Z Author Index to my blog posts. It’s there in a tab at the top of my blog. Whilst doing this I found that several of my links in my Books Read Pages no longer worked and kept giving me a 404 Error – Ooops where did you find this link? I hope I’ve fixed these and that the ones in my index all work.

I would like to compile a Title Index now, but this will take me much longer, but I may do this some time! If I have time I’m thinking of revising the tags and categories on my posts as I’ve not been consistent at all. This is all just for my own benefit as I don’t suppose anyone else is at all interested.

Keep On Commenting

Published on by Margaret10 Comments

Whilst I was away Zetor at Mog’s Blog nominated me for an award – amazing, thank you so much. I love making and receiving comments, so I really appreciate this award. I think the comments are as much part of a blog as the posts and making comments is a good way to make connections, start a conversation and share information. And it’s so encouraging to know that other people are actually reading your blog!

The ‘rules’ of acceptance are that you nominate 7 other bloggers to receive the award. This is very hard as so many bloggers are so good at commenting, sorry to leave anyone out (you all deserve the award), but here are my seven – in no particular order:

  1.  A Work In Progress
  2. Table Talk
  3. My Own Little Reading Room
  4. Just a Reading Fool
  5. Geranium Cat’s Bookshelf
  6. My Random Acts of Reading
  7. Read Warbler

Thanks to everyone who’s commented on my blog and if you have commented yet I’d love to ‘meet’ you – just say hello, it’s easy.