Seven Random Things About Me

I was mightly chuffed to receive a Versatile Blogger Award from Kristina Fugate over at KayKay's Corner  and Jani Grey at Life Debatable today.  To obtain my shiny badge, however, I have to complete three different tasks:

1.)  Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to them in your post.

2.)  Share 7 things about yourself.
3.)  Pass this Award along to 15 recently discovered blogs and let them know about it.

So here goes number two. Seven things about me:

1. I've lived in 26 different dwellings (including a old mill and a tent) during my 30-something years. Unsurprisingly, change holds very little fear for me now.

2. I have an intense dislike of cut flowers - almost a phobia.  A bouquet is the worst thing that anyone could ever buy me. Plants are OK, trees are even better.

3. My first story was published in the Puffin Post when I was 12 years old. It was called 'The Sandals and The Unsuspecting Witch'. 

4. I like Hayao Miyazaki's work so much (see last post) that I decided to pay a special visit to the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo a couple of years ago.

5. I eat at least one banana every day - sometimes two.

6. I've never used my dishwasher even though I have lived in my current house for nearly four years.

7. My hiking boots are twenty-two years old and still going strong. They've made contact with five continents, completed two long-distance trails and climbed countless hills.

Now to pass this on. I'd like to give this award to the following bloggers:

Claire Robyns
Read in Between the Lines
Imagination to Publication
Belief Suspenders
Life Debatable
Thoughts from the Hearthfire
The Scribbling Sea Serpent
In Somnis Veritas
Medeia Sharif
The Eagle's Aerial Perspective

And thanks once again to Kristina and Jani for passing this award to me in the first place!