draliman on life

A few days ago Khana over at Khana’s web nominated me to receive the WordPress Family award. Then a couple of days later Nanuschka nominated me for both the WordPress Family award and the Sunshine Award!

I’m touched – I feel as if my WordPress buddies are part of my extended family and I’ve wanted this award for ages! I love reading about the experiences and views of people from far-flung places like the USA, South Africa and so on as well as posts from closer to home. I feel like I almost know some of you people.

The Sunshine Award – now, I’m not really a “Sunshine” kind of guy. Maybe my overwhelming pessimism doesn’t come out in my posts? But I’ll accept this one as well – maybe it will inspire me to positivity!

Here come the logos!

Here are the rules for the WordPress Family award:

1. Display the award logo on your blog. See above

2. Link back to the person who nominated you. Check and check

3. Nominate 10 others you see as having an impact on your WordPress experience and family. That’s 10 combined for both awards, right?

4. Let your 10 Family members know you have awarded them. Fine, I shall do this but it seems like a lot of hard work.

5. That is it. Just please pick 10 people who have taken you as a friend, and spread the love. Yay love!

The rules for the Sunshine Award are similar, but there are also some questions, which I shall attempt to answer below. I hope no-one minds, but I’ve added multiple instances of the letter “u” to the questions below because I’m a Brit.

• Favourite colour – blue, and most shades thereof, moving into purple (but not pink). Sorry, just one colour you say? Okay, blue.
• Favourite animal – cat, because they’re cute and fluffy and above all, independent. They’ll be there for you – on their terms.
• Favourite number – why would I have a favourite number? I hate numbers. They get all mixed around in my head. You need an answer? Okay, I’ll take a leaf out of “Bill and Ted‘s” book then – “Sixty-nine, dude!”
• Favourite non-alcoholic drink – “Tesco no added sugar cloudy lemonade.” I jut checked round the corner and I currently have 14 litres in the house, sitting next to my stockpile of Diet Coke cans (currently numbering 38).

Mmmm. Nearly no calories of tasty refreshment.

• Prefer FaceBook or Twitter – I really only use them to publicise my blog, though I read what my friends are up to via Facebook every few days, so Facebook I guess.
• My passion/s – I don’t really have any. I’d love to have some. Reading maybe.
• Prefer getting or giving presents – Giving.
• Favourite pattern – what does this mean, favourite pattern? Like, plaid or something? I’m not keen on patterns as such. I don’t like anything which regularly repeats itself.
• Favourite days of the week – Saturday. Yay for Saturday!
• Favourite flower – What? What? I can identify roses, daisies and dandelions. My favourite is none of them. See below for what my favourite flower might be.

Some of these might be my favourite flowers (taken at Bodnant Gardens, North Wales)

These flowers are shades of blue and purple, so that fits with “favourite colour”.

And so to the moment you’ve all been waiting for (or dreading) – the nominations! I know that some of these people either don’t really do awards or already have these awards. That’s cool. Feel free to take one or both of these awards if you like, but this list is really just to thank you for being a part of my little WordPress family and bringing a little sunshine into my life. I love to read what you’ve written, comment on your posts and read your replies.

So this is a list of just a few members of my treasured WordPress family (in no particular order), and I hope you’ll check out their blogs if you haven’t already!

Kate Stull
Knocked Over By A Feather
Morrighan’s Muse
The Rambling Diaries
Serendipity
Hope* The Happy Hugger
Rarasaur
Purnimodo
Fish of Gold
Gilraensblog

And finally, last time I showed you a view from inside the awards ceremony, so here’s me arriving for this ceremony, complete with imaginary girlfriend! Do you like my tux? Pretty sweet, huh? And the limo – fully stocked with Tesco No Added Sugar Cloudy Lemonade and cans of Diet Coke. Please be aware that this picture contains some flash photography.

“Red Carpet” by DraliDoodles (TM)