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Friday the 13th, Lucky For Some!! The CBA- Creative Blogger Award

After the rush last weekend, I didn’t think it would happen again so soon, but OMG!!! Another award I’d never heard of!

Rob at The V-Pub (great blog by the way… please go visit him!) nominated me and my blog for The Creative Blogger Award.

The rules for The Creative Blogger award are as follows:

Nominate some blogs and notify all nominees via their social media/blogs (kinda doctored this one so you choose how many to nominate!
Thank and post the link of the blog that nominated you
Share five facts about yourself to your readers
Pass these rules on to them

Display the image above proudly!

So firstly, as the rules say nominate some blogs!

1) Storytime With John
2) Idiot Writing
3) Matriach Of Nerds
4) Orange Marmalade Press
5) Chris The Story Telling Ape
6) Window With a View
7) Baffled Baboon
8) Edwina’s Episodes
9) Creatopath
10) The Book Blogger

And now to thank my nominator, Rob at The V-Pub. Seriously, Rob, thank you! I love you r blog, and for you to think of me is so flattering!

Next! Share 5 things about me… what, that you don’t already know? Ok, let me try…

1) I love Chicken Kiev! Mmmmmmmm! Especially the Marks & Spencer ones! And yesterday I got the kids to have some and they loved it too! YAY!!!!

2) When younger I had a god-awful obsession with Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan,(fresh out of Neighbours!) Oh,a nd Bros and New Kids On The Block!

3) I absolutely loved the author Virginia Andrews and the Flowers of the Attic series…and all the rest… not as taken with the ghost writer team that write under her name now though, since she passed away…

4) I am totally up for having a laugh at my expense… (haven’t you seen all the dressing up posts!?)

5) I am a Sikh, and though not baptised, I have every respect for my religion, and the teaching of my Guru’s. I firmly believe that no matter what God you believe in (and there is only one, that we all believe in, just many guises, because, well, he is God!) How you look and what you do is all seen by that ever present entity, and karma will come back and bite you on the arse if you are naughty, but that if you are a good person, with good thoughts, and a kind heart, it might take time, but you will reap, as you sow. Like, yes, I cut my hair. As a Sikh, I shouldn’t, but God can see me, cant he? He knows I’m not harming anyone, right! I can still believe with shorter hair!

And now off to inform my nominees!!

Thanks again Rob! 😀

The Very Inspiring Blogger Award

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Firstly a massive thank you to K Bailey at After Midnight:A Christian Bipolar for the nomination of this award.

Display the award on your blog.
Link back to the person who nominated you.
State 7 things about yourself.
Nominate 15 bloggers, link to them, and notify them about their nominations.

So, I’ve done 1 and 2… and I must say a huge thank you to my nominator, as it is a privilege and honour to be thought of as inspiring, jut by even one person! so Thank you again! (That’s 3 times I’ve said it now lol!)

7 things about me.. this gets harder every time I get awards… what to find to tell you all that I might not have mentioned before..?

1) Being from a Sikh family that lived in Kenya, I was unaware that half of the Punjabi I spoke was actually a mishmash of Punjabi and Swahili! I found out at university when my fellow Punjabi speaking students looked at me like I was mad when I said certain things. Upon clarification from my dear mum, I realised I had in fact been speaking gobble di gook to them!

2) My Hubby Dearest is my toy boy! Well, you’re only as young as the man you feel, isn’t that what they say! 😉

3) I swam with dolphins in Jamaica, what an amazing experience!

4) My mum went to university with Mary Berry! (but a couple of years below her!)

5) At university, I was a finalist in the Miss Moonlighting Beauty contest! could have won a trip to a Caribbean Island as the prize, but I was too scared to go to the final! (We were at the venue where the contest was held by chance and I got picked!)

6) I caught chicken Pox on my 3rd birthday. What a great present!

7) I suffer from PCOS and my children are my two miracles. ❤

And now to the nominations… this is always hard, so I will attempt to find inspirational blogs for you!

(Looked for ages, and these 11 I am highlighting, are blogs I find inspirational to read)

Kunal Rane
Rachel Being Chatty
Confessions of an Addict
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights
Window With a View
10 Years a Single Mom
A Momma’s View
Mumz The Word
Blackbird’s Nest
Shaun L. Bird
Innerdragon