More Awards = More Facts!!

I have been given two more awards!! I am so thrilled by this as these awards are given by my fellow bloggers who give me so much inspiration and fill me with awe.


First of all Grateful4Crochet has given me the Leibster Blog Award:

I'd like to pass it on to two of my favourites:

Hookin' With Laalaa

Jellybean's Odds And Ends

I've also been given the Versitile Blog Award by Ashley at Country Rose (do check out her blog, she has a wonderful giveaway running at the moment):

I'd like to pass this onto:


Little Cotton Rabbits
Nelly's Eggs

So now I have to think of more facts for you!!

• I used to teach antenatal classes for the NCT.

• H is named after my beloved late Granddad, we adored each other.

• I can do the Vulcan "Live Long And Prosper" salute with both hands & I can roll my tongue.

• Today, aged 38, I read "The Velveteen Rabbit" for the first time - loved it!!

• I am a late person. Late for everything despite trying not to be.

• I love cheesecake - I am on a quest for the ultimate cheesecake - the type that is cloying and claggy & sticks to the roof of your mouth like the Polish cheesecake we had when we were kids - I find it perhaps once every 10 years.

• Despite being a pretty good cook, I cannot bake a decent cheesecake, they are either too dry or too moussey.

• My sister is nothing like me, she is a size 8 pefectionist prefect - I am a size 22/24 "that'll-do-ist" who likes to break the rules!! She is my best friend.

I think that's all I can manage!!

How do you feel about blog awards? I love getting them, it gives me a real buzz to be acknowledged by the ladies who I admire the most. Lately though, I have been surprised to learn that some bloggers don't really "do" them, maybe it's just each to their own?

Now, before I go sciatica news!! Still v. sore though marginally better today - yesterday I had my hair highlighted laying down!! Luckily, my friend does it and so wasn't phased at all, bless her she even gave me a foot massage whilst my foils were cooking!!

S x

Versatile Blogger Award - So More Facts About Me!!

The lovely Ashley over at Jellybean's Odds and Ends has given me a Versatile Blogger Award!!

Thanks so much Ashley - I am thrilled to bits!! I just had to laugh as I looked up (can't touch type!!) and I had typed "trilled to bots"!!

I've been blogging six months now (where does the time go?) and I cannot tell you how much it means to me each day to receive your comments. I really don't know what I did with my internet time before I did my daily blog visits and I really feel as though I am making some friends - so thank you all, so much.

Now, I am charged with sharing seven facts about me and passing this award onto seven other bloggers - so here goes:

• Mr G and I have never been to America. These days it seems everyone has been but not us. We hope to remedy that next year before the boys are too old to appreciate Disney!!

• My sister jokes that the refuse tip is our furniture shop - she only buys new. Her loss I reckon, lol!!

• I am 1/4 Polish. I have often been told by Poles that they can see the eastern European blood in me.

• Although we have both, I am allergic to cats and horses. If I cuddle my horses or TC gives me a kiss (he loves a smooch and I can't resist) I come up in a red, itchy rash.

• I love musicals (and so does Mr G!!) Particularly Phantom, Chicago and Sweeney Todd.

• I detest fish, unless it is in fingers or battered from the chip shop. Any other fish is just too fishy.

• I wear my late Dad's wedding ring on my right thumb.

Gosh, that was hard!!

Now to pass it on to some of my favourites:

Crochet With Raymond

Bunny Mummy

Annaboos House

Teawagon Tales

The Quiet Home

Wired To My World

Suz's Place

S x