The Friday Photo: An award? Pour moi? Shucks
When you become a blogger, you join a diverse and very widely spread family. I love it. I suppose I’m a little odd in that I currently subscribe to the feeds of about forty different blogs, but hell, I love to read and have fresh reading material at my fingertips every day! I’ve got friends all around the globe and people pop by English Towers all the time. What’s not to love? Anyhoo, this award is from Jay, who says:
“She encourages new bloggers, promotes the cause of ex-racing greyhound adoption (she is owned by the delightful Bertie) and writes in a pithy and often very funny way about a wide variety of subjects. She has also led me to some great blogs which I now read regularly”
But wait…there’s a catch: if you accept the award, you must:
- Pick five blogs that you consider deserve the award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also for contributing to the blogging community, no matter what language.
- Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.
- Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.
- The award winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of the Arte y Pico blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award.
So I’ve tried to go about this from a slightly different angle, in that I’ve gone for people who, in my humble opinion, write really well. Here goes, then:
For Travel Writing
My first award goes to Hails over at Coffee Helps. Originally from Northern Ireland, Hails is currently on a one-woman mission to circumnavigate the globe, and the stories of her travels are really informative and often laugh-out-loud funny. She’s relentlessly optimistic and incredibly versatile (managing not to starve to death even after being pickpocketed of all her worldly cash in Lyon). A great blog.
For Razor-Sharp Wit
Next up is lubly Baino over in Australia. Baino describes herself as ‘old enough to know better, too young to care. I am a lazy left-wing, arm chair radical with far too much time on my hands’. I love her intelligent social commentary, and, frankly, couldn’t live without the Friday Fuckwit. Enough said.
For Being Inspirational and Aspirational
Tara at DC de facto is who I’d like to be if I wasn’t me. She spends her days ’protecting one pound people’ in a special care baby unit, still finds time to give us a slice of DC life, and her photos just sparkle. Fantastic.
For Foodie Excellence
Well, I couldn’t pick five blogs without including the best foodie. Pop over to Jen over at Little Bird Eats for droolingly good recipes and great photography (I never could master taking photos of food). Small of stature, but big of appetite, The Wee One is a real foodoholic.
For Soul-Baring Excellence
Annie, over at The Little Pinch of Salt, is a true web-diarist. She really does open her heart and her writing is just beautiful. She’s also a big clever clogs in the film world and her photography is abolutely stunning. Read it and weep. Really.
Thanks, Jay! xx
11 Responses to “The Friday Photo: An award? Pour moi? Shucks”
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Seriously, thank you kindly EM, that’s extremely lovely of you and has made my day
Lottie: Welcome! Aw, she’s fab isn’t she. Top Girl. x
And I’ll overlook the fact that you seem to have forgotten me on your list
‘Most Well Connected…’ or ‘Most Popular’ or ‘Reads even more blogs than I do’? !!
xx