My Sunshine Blogger Award Nominations…

Such a wonderful honour to be thought of and appreciated! In addition, it’s awesome to get to know the nominators a bit better. Thank you, Matt Snyder of  A Prolific Potpourri. Matt, you are an honest soul, and I absolutely LOVE your artwork, in particular your birds. I’ve also spied a recipe or two I’m liking the look of. It’s a true pleasure to follow you.

What is the Sunshine Blogger Award

The Sunshine Blogger Award is an award passed down from blogger to blogger as a way to show appreciation. The blogs that create inspirational content, shows great creativity, and positivity is selected by a previous nominee. It’s a pretty neat award system!

This helps newer blogs get discovered, grows your network, and can also help you make beautiful friendships with like-minded people. While you are encouraged to participate, you don’t have to. It’s okay if you decide not to, blogging is hard work but the nominees definitely deserve the shout out.

MY ANSWERS TO MATT’S QUESTIONS:

My 11 questions for the nominees

• Who is/was the most influential person in your life and why?

I’ve thought long and hard about this, the name that keeps cropping up is Jean M Auel, a writer who’s work I started enjoying when I was about 13. The heroine was a young girl who was going through a lot of things, and yet she was a girl growing up true, strong and independent – she was a character I fully identified with. That mattered very much to my young self, and I believe that helped to keep me feeling stronger in my life. I also love anything to do with human evolution, neanderthals and the ice age because of this author.

• Do you have any pets ?

Nope, my daughter convinced me to have a cat just over 11 years ago (she named him Splodge) but then when Paul and I moved to our own home last year, we left the cat and the daughter in that property. I still worry about him though, and we still buy all his food, just in case…. Is it wrong we buy the cat food, but nothing for my daughter and her fiancee? 😀

• If you could go back in time in your life which year and why ?

If I had to go back in time, it would be to a couple of years ago, just so I could spend more quality time with my family, and in particular my now passed step dad.

• What was your first concert?

Oh, difficult, there were plenty of gigs, but I can’t remember who they were now, first proper single artist concert was Alice Cooper at Round House, London

• Have you ever flown or sailed and if so to where, if not is there a reason ?

Flown – I’ve been so lucky – Greece, Turkey, Malta, Mexico, Portugal, Majorca

• Aside from blogging, what are you passionate about ?

I am a part-time passionate cook – i say part time, because I love nothing more than spending a few hours in my kitchen cooking or baking, but rarely get the chance. When I do get a weekend where I can be indulgent, by the time I go back to work my feet and back are usually killing me!

• What was a milestone in your life you are particularly proud of?

Coming through depression, not that I knew it for that at the time, in hindsight I’ve spent the majority of my adult life with varying degrees of depression. Finding my inner peace and contentment. Mine and my daughter’s lives improved so much after my mental health became better.

• Do you have any regrets in life ?

Plenty, but where I can, I live by knowing there’s nothing I can do about the past but learn. Then carry that forward.

• What are your fears ?

Other than spiders :D. I found love late (we we’re both 33), the type of love I had never witnessed when growing up. What I am blessed with is no fairy tale, but it is kind, compassionate, friendly, respectful and equal. I do fear losing this, that fear sometimes manifests in my dreams when my mental health is a little off kilter

• What issue in today’s world gets you riled up the most?

Oh my, there is a LOT! Idiot and lying politicians. Peoples’ inability to treat others as they wish to be treated themselves.

• How do you like your pizza (Toppings, style, Hot or cold) ?

Stuffed crust, bbq base, ham, sweetcorn, pineapple, mushroom – hot at night, room temperature in the morning

I’ve found it really difficult to select just 11 to nominate, I love following all the people I follow. I nearly didn’t follow through with the nomination because of how hard this is! (I’m also an idiot with tech, so had to have some very basic help :D)

Obviously, what everyone enjoys is subjective, we don’t all like the same things but this is a way to “pay it forward”, so to speak, and to showcase what these writers feel they need to share. I hope you decide to take a look!

I Nominate:

My Weight Loss Journey

Lose weight or die

Breaking up with Fat

Fatman Slimming

T. P. S. G.

Take Back Control of your Kitchen

Taking Control Of My Life

Thoughts from a Fat Old Lady

100 days

One Regular Guy Writing about Food, Exercise and living past 100

NatReynolds

My 11 questions for the nominees

1. Who is/was the most influential person in your life and why?
2. What have you done that’s made you feel most proud of yourself?
3. What is the kindest thing anyone has ever done for you?
4. Should Chinese or Indian food be eaten the following morning?
5. What do you prefer, sitting quietly watching the waves roll in, or being out in the waves?
6. Is there a famous person you would like to meet?
7. Is there anything you would like to change about your personality?
8. Are you a ‘glass half full or glass half empty’ person?
9. Where would you love to travel to?
10. What item of clothing can you not cope without?
11. What period of time would you like to go back to and why?

Rules:

1. Thank the blogger who nominated you
2. Answer the 11 questions the blogger asked you
3. Nominate 11 new blogs to receive this award
4. Write 11 new questions for the nominated bloggers
5. List the rules and display them on your post
6. Notify the nominees about the nomination by commenting on one of their posts