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If you’re a blogger chances are you’ll have come across awards where bloggers are nominated by their peers for various nice reasons. They have a ‘chain letter’ element as the recipient is asked to nominate others, and on it goes. I’ve been an occasional recipient, a bad one as it turns out as I’ve never participated.

However, I am about to partly change that as Chloe from https://itstartedinoxford.wordpress.com/ has bestowed upon me the Liebster Award. By way of background I think this was originally intended for new bloggers as a way of boosting their profile; I on the other hand have been doing this for four years and don’t have the capacity to seek let alone maintain a higher readership.

But such nominations are a nice consideration and acknowledgement and in the spirit of that I’ve decided to partly participate. I’ll answer the questions Chloe has posed as part of the award, but I’ll do it here rather than in a dedicated post, and in another demonstration of making up the rules to suit myself, I also won’t nominate anyone else. Not because there’s no one worthy, but because I can only properly read and follow a few blogs, being the sort of person I am, I don’t want to impose the obligations of the award on anyone else.

So with all that said, thank you Chloe, your 11 questions and my answers are:

1: Where is your dream travel destination? That’s hard, but in terms of expense and logistical effort, Antarctica.
2: Dogs or cats? Historically, cats. They make me a bit allergic though. Growing up on farms we had working dogs which weren’t really pets, but Dad’s last one retired with them when they left farming, he was lovely.
3: Do you have any hidden talent? I’ve struggled with this question for a number of reasons – perhaps we could extrapolate this and say my hidden talent is over-complicating the simple?
4: Can you speak any foreign languages? No but I’m starting to learn a bit of Polish ahead of my trip there later this year.
5: What is your favourite type of flower? Don’t really have one. I was fond of gerberas and chose them for my wedding almost 20 years ago, but that chapter of my life is ancient history so gerberas are a bit tainted now :).
6: Where do you see yourself in 10 years? I’d like to not have to work full-time to allow more flexibility for travel and doing things for my family. I’d like to be living (at least some of the time) somewhere near the coast or mountains.
7: How would you describe yourself in 3 words? Aggghh! I’m going to pass on this one.
8: Tea or coffee? Coffee. I should really quit but, well, coffee is my friend.
9: What are you currently reading? No books on the go currently but have just downloaded a couple as research for Poland.
10: What’s the first thing you see if you turn your head right? Our kitchen (and the pile of dishes waiting for me).
11: If you have any pets, what are their names? I haven’t had any pets since leaving home 25 years ago. When I was little, our cats were Snoopy and Snigglepuss.