draliman on life

Yay! Lovely fellow blogger Nanuschka has included little old me in her award nominations!

(Pause for claps and cheers and whatnot.)

It actually appears to be a 3 for the price of 1 deal. How about that? It’s like buses. You wait for years and then three come along at once.

Make way for the logos:

Smashing. I hope it’s OK to stick them all together in one image like that. I don’t know how to make images sit next to one another.

So without further ado, I’d like to thank my parents, my family, my best friend’s cousin’s dog… actually, I’d like to thank all the people on WordPress who have been kind enough to read my humble postings and especially those who comment and click the “like” button. It’s a bit sad I know, but I’ve taken to keeping my email open at work so I can see if anyone “likes” me!

Here are the rules as posted for this multiple award:

1. Display the Award Certificate on your website. Done.
   
2. Announce your win with a post and link to whoever presented you with the award. Done.
3. Present 15 awards to deserving bloggers. Well, this is 3 in 1 and it says “15 awards”, not “awards to 15 bloggers”, so…
4. Drop them a comment to tip them off after you have linked them in the post. Will do.
5. Post 7 interesting things about yourself. Uh-oh.

So, 7 interesting things about me. Seven. Seven  whole interesting things. Blimey.

1. I’ve lived and worked in Germany and Ireland (and the UK as well obviously).
2. I can speak semi-reasonable German but I can’t speak any Irish.
3. I can’t speak any Cornish either despite being Cornish myself.
4. The most frightening and proudest day of my life was the day of my PhD viva (I “passed subject to minor corrections” :-)).
5. I’m not married and I don’t have kids. Otherwise I’m sure number 4 would be different :-(.
6. The name “draliman” is made up of my title, the short form of my first name and “man”. Because I am one.
7. I spent many years of my life attempting to drink myself to death. I haven’t touched alcohol since February 2003. Yay me!

And now for the moment you’ve been waiting for – my nominations! As previously noted, this is 3 in 1 and I need to present 15 awards, so that’s 5 people, right? Ooh, I’m such a little cheater.

I know some of you guys aren’t ones for awards, so this is more of a thank-you list of people who have particularly shaped and aided my blogging, and whose blogs I really enjoy and have followed for some time.

Fish Of Gold

Purnimodo

Rarasaur

Hope* The Happy Hugger

Gilraensblog

I shall now repair to a mirror to bask in my own award-filled glory ;-).