It's the Awards Season!

It must be a difficult time of year for those involved in show business.  

What with the Golden Globes in mid-January, the Screen Actors Guild Awards at the end of last month, the BAFTAs and Grammys on Sunday night, the *Golden Collars yesterday and the Brits on February 21st, there must be an awful lot of rifling through wardrobes going on, lots of expensive preening to be done and much worrying about whether your choice of outfit will land you in the critics 'best' or 'worst' dressed list.  


It seems to me that long after everyone has forgotten who won what at each ceremony, photos of the fashion faux-pas will be circulating, enough to strike terror into the heart of any poor soul attending such a bash.

Because I try to be a nice person, I won't post any pictures of outfits that have been declared disastrous, but you only have to Google 'red carpet winners and losers' to get a whole heap of reminders. Some of the things these critics write make me wince!

Anyway, I'm glad that the only award ceremony I'm ever likely to attend is right here on my blog.  So, from the comfort of my own little nursing chair, wearing a pair of slouchily comfortable post-Sunday-lunch jogging bottoms (okay, it's not even Sunday anymore!) and a cosy cardi, plus slippers that make my feet look like a Yeti, I am very proud to accept (a little later than intended - I must have got lost between my seat and the stage! Or maybe my shoe...) The Versatile Blogger Award!

Thank you to Patricia of A Place for Everything

and Carol of Smile At The Flowers

for doubly blessing me with this award!
Do pop along to their blogs -  they both write about all sorts of different things, so there's bound to be something to interest you!

After receiving the award there are several rules to follow:-

You should pass it on to 15 recently discovered blogs and let the bloggers know they have been nominated. Then you have to share 7 things about yourself. Finally thank the award giver and link back to them.


I seem to be going in reverse order, so I will now share seven random facts.  
If I can think of any.  
Which I'm beginning to doubt.


In the end, I rifled through the blanket box that houses all sorts of bits and pieces that I have hung on to over the years, in an attempt to enlighten myself as to what I'm about.  
The results are slightly worrying, but here goes...


1. 
When I was a child I wanted to be an air hostess.  Look, here's my Junior Air Hostess badge that I bought at Heathrow Airport.   

Don't worry - I don't wear it anymore...

I think I thought it would entitle me to just hop aboard and start doing a lively safety demonstration.  Once I grew up,  I realised that me and flying don't really go together, so I  had to find an alternative career...

2.

One of the jobs I tried along the way.  Oh the glamour...

3.

My attitude towards primping and preening was, I think, formed at the moment this photo was taken.

Having my hair done by my older sister, right next to the bin, at the end of the garden, with a battery powered hairdryer and four rollers.  The look on my face says it all.
NB Stephanie, if you are reading, I think I must have given you the beautiful waves in your hair there! Mind you, I bet you sat still for me, whilst I will have wriggled and complained!

4.

If I can ever afford to, I would like to find an MG Magnette to buy, like the one behind me, my siblings and my cousins here.

Me looking stroppy again!

Walnut dashboard, leather seats, cute little indicator that popped up between the front and back doors, we never realised how great this car was when we had it.  It even took all five of us all the way to Stuttgart, Germany one Christmas - what an adventure!

5.

Desperation is setting in and there's nothing left in the box...

I like donkeys.

6.

I may not be very important, but I have had a personal fly-by from THE Lancaster bomber (the one featured in last week's 'Bomber Boys' with Colin and Ewan McGregor).  Here it is flying above our house.

Actually, it wasn't just the Lancaster...

Spitfires too!

(Okay - we are close to the airfield where the Farnborough Airshow takes place, but really, I'm quite sure this is a special treat for me.  I know one of the chaps who flies in it!)

7.

I have seen Baldrick's socks...

 I was just behind him in the queue for security at Gatwick.  He wears a nice class of sock, I can tell you.

Well, it did say 'random'.

Phew!

Now the last bit.  

Button Box Cards

Faded Reverie

Faith's Craft Box

Fat Dormouse Getting Thinner

Haizi Daizie's Vintage Ramblings

Hearts of Hampshire

Jillys

Making it Vintage

Nicholas and Steele

Priddy Priddy

Folly Bird

The Vintage Hobby House

Sorry - that's only 12.  Thing is, if I add many more blogs to my reading list I may find myself unable to actually have a life (of sorts) about which to blog!

*The Golden Collars was an inaugural event, where Uggie won 'Top

 Dog in a Movie'...

Even he clearly considered his outfit carefully!