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http://jrosenberry1.wordpress.com nominated me for the Dragon’s Loyalty Award!! Given my fairly obvious love of dragons this was especially touching, and also coming from such a great writer and fellow blogger. I highly recommended that you visit her blog – her poetry is amazing and her friendship of great, great value.

{The rules are:}
-Display the Award Certificate on your website.
-Announce your win with a written post and link to whoever presented your award.
-Present 15 awards to deserving bloggers. ( Like my gracious nominator I am going to choose fewer because it’s less stressful for everybody. Also, there are so many I could choose I’m going to try to limit it to ones I think might, like me, especially like a dragon related award and ones I did not nominate, or perhaps did not even know, at the time I did my earlier award nomination process)
-Drop them a comment to tip them off after you have liked them in the post.
-Post 7 interesting things about yourself.

Seven Interesting Things about Me

1. I am not very IT literate so I’m not sure how to do hyperlinked text so my nominations etc below are the web address rather than name of the people concerned – please bear with me on that luddite side of me!
2. When I was 16 I spent four years learning to sing opera, which is fine except I don’t really like most opera music. The sort of music I did like my teacher thought was too ‘pop music-y’
3. When I was a child I wanted to be a tiger. I also wanted to rule the world. I’m not sure if these things were mutually exclusive in my mind
4. I no longer want to rule the world, nor be a tiger for that matter. What I crave now is a comfortable, quiet life, which is probably a sign of age
5. I love watching tv box set DVDs..I think that is my favourite form of relaxation
6. For someone who writes poetry, prose and novels, I spend most of my time reading non fiction books
7. When my brother and I were young we used to wait outside at night in the hope of seeing a UFO or getting abducted but neither ever happened, LOL

So, to my nominees – and why I chose them (and I highly recommend you check out all these blogs if you aren’t reading them already!):

http://whenibecameanauthor.wordpress.com: A very special blogger who is so generous of heart, and who I know sees a dragon award as a real treat.
http://solothefirst.wordpress.com: A great friend in real life, fantastic writer and fellow blogger in virtual life, and also because she is writing a story with a dragon in it now – go check it out, that story and all her other work is fabulous!!

http://dropsofink.com : One of the first bloggers I met on wordpress and still one of the loveliest and most talented and diverse…I am sure a dragon would be honoured to be associated with this blog!!.
http://thesoultamagotchi.wordpress.com : A blogger I’ve met relatively recently in WP-land, and a wonderful, warm fellow WP traveller and fantastic writer.
http://roxistclair.com : A spiritual light in a dark world, a writer of enormous talent and generosity, and a wonderful friend…dragons should bow down before her.
So I’ve kept the nominations to a relatively small group with specific criteria and I do want to stress that this does not mean, for any of the other numerous and wonderful bloggers that I follow, that you are enjoyed and followed with any less gusto.  As I said last time, if I follow your blog you inspire and entertain me, and to everyone involved I am most grateful.