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CBA, Again! Yup, you guessed it, Creative Blogger Award!

26 Mar 2015 14 Comments

by Ritu in Awards Tags: Award, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging

Awarded 26-3-15

I am honoured to have been nominated again for the Creative Blogger award, this time by Jane at Cupid Or Cats. Thank you so much!!

So go the rules (…… oh and I chose a different version of the award image, to pretty it up a little!)

Thank and post the link of the blog that nominated you
Display the image loud and proud!
Share five facts about yourself to your readers
Contact all of your nominees and notify them of their award. You can pick as many blogs as you like, but five is the minimum.
Pass these rules on to them

So the thanks are done, but you can never thank enough, so thank you a TONNE Jane!

My award image is up there, loud and proud as I said!

Five facts about me that I (may or )may not have disclosed already… (damage limitation!)

I seriously can’t wrap presents! I wish I could pay for someone to make them look attractive, but they end up covered in half a roll of sticky tape! That, or I cut the paper short and have to do patch up jobs!!!
I once won a raffle, and the prize was £500 of travel vouchers… my mum asked for the cash instead, and being such a lovely sister, I gave half to my brother. the first £25 I spent on a mini jogging trampoline… I was a young teenager at the time, and you know what, I still have it here with me, nearly 3 decades later!!!
When I had m hair cut in a bob, with the curls, I was told I looked like Jennifer Grey, of Dirty Dancing fame…

You Decide!!!

I was a chronic nail biter when I was young, and I am gutted now! My nails used to be lovely, then I totally ruined them!!Please people! Refrain from ruination of the nail!!!!!!!
I LOVE CUDDLY TOYS!!!!!!!

And my nominees are…

Yadadarcyyada
Nutsrok
Down Home Thoughts
All Things Chronic
Kelzbelsphotography

As I say everytime, please don’t feel obliged to take part, it’s just my way of appreciating some more blogs, and sharing that appreciation, as someone, Jane, has done to mine!

Happy Blogging all!!!

The Best Words-On-The-Go Blogger!

26 Mar 2015 16 Comments

by Ritu in Awards Tags: Award, Best Words on the Go Blogger, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging

Caitlin at The Teen Daydreamer has set me an interesting challenge with this award!

Awarded 26-3-15

The rules say that you have to nominate 5 blogs, notify them of the award and then pick a title from one of the blogs’ recent posts and write them in a short story.

Hmmm.. this should be fun!

Nominations ready?!

The Summer Rain
LindaGHill
Sunset Dragon
Arwenagornstar
Climacticrhyme

Story
Let me dream a little dream… Maybe I’ll wake up and it will come true. Let me dream a modern fairytale, set in a mansion, with a park size garden. swimming pool, and all. Inside, all the mod-cons, several rooms, amazing kitchen, bathrooms to die for, and staff, of course… I wouldn’t want to spend all the time cleaning it! A charming, handsome prince, pandering to my every whim, invitations to all the parties, a whirlwind of a social life…….
Let me wake up and see if it’s come true… Could it be? Could it? No, not yet… well the Prince part is true at least! Oh well, I can dream…….

I hope you like my rather quick effort! And I hope that was ok, Caitlin!

Breakfast Chancer!

26 Mar 2015 10 Comments

by Ritu in Sonu Singh Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Breakfast, Cat, Cats, Cute Cat, Kitten, Sonu Singh

I went for a shower, came down to find a guard looking after my handbag…

I'll look after your bag mummy!

But there was an ulterior motive…
He knew my breakfast was coming!

Cheeky!

He grabbed my breakfast biscuits!
I’m sure if he had a chance, he would have dipped them in my tea too!

Obligatory crushes…

25 Mar 2015 18 Comments

by Ritu in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Arjun Rampal, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Bros, Crushes, Kylie and Jason, NKOTB, One Direction, Tom Cruise, Wham

It’s devastating… Zayn Malik is leaving One Direction!!!!!

How could he??!!!!

Lil Princess is devastated!

In her 7 year old world, they were the be all and end all of, well, everything!

I saw the news, and had to bring her in out of the garden to break this earth shattering news to her, and she spent an hour watching youtube clips, announcing the decision, and then watching their song videos, as it made her feel better… !!!

As they were… no more!

I giggle, thinking about it! She only really discovered them a couple of months ago, as one of her best buddies is obsessed with them and I wonder, is it a peer pressure thing? Or does she feel she has to like certain songs or bands, because the others do?

Takes me back to my childhood, and teen years though… When my walls started off being covered by Kylie and Jason posters…

What a pair, Kylie and Jason, aka Scott and Charlene!

Oh how I loved to watch Neighbours, and was overjoyed that my favourite characters were now branching out into music as themselves!!!

But how can I forget??!! It didn’t start there, the first posters to appear were of Wham! And at least I can honestly say, my heart wasn’t broken when it came out about George Michael, well, coming out! I was Team Andrew Ridgely all the way!

Oh Wham-drew!!! swoon!

Then there was the teeny tiny Tom Cruise!!!

Top Gun!!

I’ve always loved the dark looks, rather than the blonde Adonis style, oh, apart from the gorgeous Brad Pitt… Hubba hubba!!

Brad!

But I remember following Bros, that ‘wonderful’ 80’s band of the “When will I be famous?” Song fame… It was because everyone else in my class was swooning over them, buying their Doc Martens and attaching bottle tops to them, like the boys!

Bros… plus one!

It was all about Matt or Luke Goss…which one of the twins did you fancy? No one paid a blind bit of notice to Craig Logan!

Then, from across the pond came New Kids On The Block!

NKOTB!

Ok, so I look at that picture now and think “Why???!!!!” But at the time, Jordan Knight was to die for, well in my eyes anyway!!!

It was always more a case of liking a band, singer or actor because everyone else did, not because I really liked them!

I wasn’t big on idolising any of our punjabi stars, or Bollywood actors at that time.. (Had you seen them?!) the actresses were pretty, I wanted to be like them, but the actors.. Hmmm! But nowadays the youngsters have so much eye candy, buff, lean metrosexual guys who parade as actors, for drooling purposes!!!

Now if I was 25 years younger… I know who’d be gracing my walls!! 😜

Arjun Rampal

Still, I can’t complain, I have my pin up lying next to me every night…

Tomorrow’s Just Another Day – Flash Fiction Foray #3

25 Mar 2015 12 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Fiction Tags: Anticipation, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Flash Fiction Foray

It’s that time of week again, and I am so happy to promote this cool weekly event by a fellow newbie blogger The Book Blogger, check it all out here!

This weeks inspirational song is Madness – Tomorrow’s (Just Another Day)

It doesn’t matter that I’ve spent the last 5 months, gearing up to this moment. Perfecting my walk, my talk, my smile, my, well, everything really.
I’ve worked on the clothes, the shoes, the hair, the makeup, the look.
I know where I’ll be tomorrow, in the key spot, perfect for immediate eye contact. And I do so hope we’ll make that eye contact. Once he sees me, he’ll know, well, I hope he’ll know, that I’m the one. But then, what if he doesn’t look? All my efforts gone to pot…. After all, for him, tomorrow’s just another day…