Thanks to Jo’s Kitchen I have my very first blog award! Jo’s recipes featured in this blog last month and she has kindly awarded me the ‘Honest Scrap’ award for my blog.

I am rather excited about this as I quite like winning things and getting awards, but it doesn’t happen all that often. In primary school my teachers commented on what a gracious loser I always was. Apparently I would always smile and be happy about the successes of my peers. My netball team in the primary school league ‘Thornber’s Thunderers’ lost every single match that year. I had two birthday parties with teams, one was an assault course and the other was a treasure hunt. My team lost both. I was a loser on my birthday!

As you can probably understand winning or being awarded something is a very lovely experience and one step closer to overshadowing my loser memories.

Now I have the ‘Honest Scrap’ award I have to share seven facts about myself and then pass this award on to my favourite seven (honest) blogs.

In the spirit of winning awards my seven facts are about things I have won:

1. I won a trophy for the best entry in the miscellaneous categories in the Children’s Tent at the Ainsdale Flower Show
2. We finally won the pub quiz at the Smoke Rooms in Clapham when our competitors/arch enemies ‘Southside Johnny’ went away for a week
3. I was elected Vice President Representation in the Students Union at Bournemouth University winning by a landslide
4. At the end of sixth form I won half of the ‘Monica & Chandler Award’ for best couple
5. My team won a quiz (and wine!) at a Royal Mail graduate event
6. I bought a ticket for my nieces primary school raffle and won a bottle of Martini Rosso. The worst prize ever!
7. I was given a bottle of champagne for being the first person in Sainsbury’s Southport to get 100% from a mystery shopper

And the seven honest bloggers I will pass the award to are:

1. Rats Saw God – a nice mix of thoughts, life and everything else. I always enjoy James’ posts.
2. Secret Diaries of a Wannabe Yummy Mammy - A wonderful woman who is using her blog (and Save One Mammy) to raise awareness of the problems of getting a divorce, getting custody but not being allowed to move back to the country she is from. She also keeps us updated on being a mammy and the trials and tribulations of dating!
3. Awful Library Books – Not just for librarians. These are the most awful books found in libraries and put into one blog by Mary & Holly. It is hilarious!
4. Graeme Watson Photography – A fantastic photoblog of excellent photography by an amateur who is very rapidly turning pro.
5. On Music, Maths and Moggies – The title says it all, an enjoyable read every time
6. Mister Phill – Phill is a professional photographer and his photos are so enjoyable to consume that is doesn’t matter if you know no one in them. He’s also one of the most honest pros you will find!
7. Whitespider1066 – Darren’s outdoor blog covers the TGO Challenge, hiking and outdoors info and life in general. Enjoyable even if you are an armchair hiker who keeps promising themselves they will put on their walking boots next weekend…

And of course don’t forget Jo’s Kitchen. Thank you Jo!!!