award. The idea is to pass it along, with each recipient presenting five other blogs with less than 200 followers...to introduce readers to blogs they might not have come across otherwise.
I owe Ayak a great deal....without her I would still be at the boiling of head and throwing heavy objects stage of coping with IT ...not to speak of Blogger.
I still think our 'computing for numpties' would be a handy guide for those who did not grow up with a computer attached to their finger ends....people like me who are still basically unsure about what a 'browser' is...let alone what it does.
I shall be enlisting her support shortly for coping with a laptop equipped with some sort of metal plate with which some optimist expects me to 'navigate'....
Why don't they just print a compass rose on the benighted thing!
Blogging has opened so many windows for me...music and photography in particular...has unbuttoned me too in my views on the way in which other people live their lives...it has been and is an education.
As always, fulfilling the conditions gives me problems.
I follow some French and Spanish language blogs which are both enjoyable and useful.....but I have the impression that this is English language stuff....but do 'Google Translate' the Costa Rican recipe website on my blogroll...that man can cook!
Then...the 200 followers condition. Crumbs...if I ever get to 200 followers I shall suspect I've inadvertently used some phrase with a sexual connotation! (Which may be how the mega bloggers work..the thought has just occurred to me...)
Some blogs have follower lists...some do not. I'd hate to give offence by indicating...however obliquely...that a blog has fewer followers than is the case.
Still, reminding myself that bloggers are unlikely to bring a legal process against me, I shall take the plunge.
Chez Charnizay...for a view of Loire Valley life from two medievalists...and damn good photographers!
la Mujer Libre...for honesty and humour. A Scot...of course..
The Diary of Amy Rigby...who opened my eyes to a whole new world.
Another Day of Crazy...who has the mother from hell...but British Dad interested...
Prospero's Cellphone...expat life in Corfu...Belgian food..but so far, no cricket.
Thank you, Ayak, for reminding me of all the pleasures of discovery that blogging brings.
