Huzzah, I'm long-listed for two spots at the Irish Blonk Awards. Don't worry, any guilt I might've felt about not being a genuine Irish person is long since overshadowed by joy and wonder at the possibility of winning a shiny trophy. Are there actual shiny trophies? Or is it just some kind of PDF attachment?
Whatever, I'm due to start my new life in Dublin a couple of days before the awards night, so I'll be going along. I'm expecting it to be just like the Oscars and am already practising a convincingly delighted expression for when blogchum Sweary* scoops the lots.
Thank you to the people who nominated me, for Best Personal Blog and Best Blog Post.** Now you can vote for me too, if you like, and I'll practise putting your name in my imaginary acceptance speech.
EDIT: Please don't vote more than once! It'll just be regarded as spam and be dismissed. Takk!
*I voted for her anyway, and for my other favourites Twenty, Hangar Queen and Kav, too.
**The Best Post nomination is a bit of a surprise really because it was something I nearly deleted straight away, clutching my head thinking what have I said, what have I said?
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Congratumalations, poppet! Remember not to do a Gwyneth Paltrow.
ReplyDeleteSo, your new life in Dublin, huh? I've never been, is it any good?
Thanks poppet! What's a Gwyneth Paltrow? Is that when you marry a wailing middle-class bore and everyone starts calling him a "rockstar"?
ReplyDeleteI think you'd like Dublin, somehow. Everybody does, except Irish people.
I don't get it.
ReplyDeletejohnecother
http://johnecother.com/blog.html
one redhead to another, I think your blog is wicked cool (bostonian expr)
ReplyDeleteand I voted for you. I can't remember how many times. I hope you get it!
It'll be super sad to see you leave my homeland, it's been fascinating to read through the eyes of the foreigner, as I have been the last 15 years from Iceland
Hey Sirry, thank you! I'll be back n forth to Iceland quite a bit I hope so don't worry, I'll still be able to take the piss out of you all on a regular basis.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the vote, but please people, don't vote more than once. They regard it as spam and don't count any of the votes. I know it's tempting — I'm the same with light switches.
I thought my byline about the crabs was rather charming. Don't worry, I'm sure everyone was picturing you paddling with the legs of your dungarees folded up, with a little net in one hand and your dear little curls waving in the breeze...
ReplyDeleteWhich might have been how it really happened, I don't know.
I'll go if I get shortlisted, I think. Fingers crossed I'll see you there!
Great to hear another girl entering the Irish blonksphere. Best of luck! Hope you are bringing a man with you.
ReplyDeleteA 'Gwyneth' is when you receive an award then promptly start blubbing in an undignified manner all over your salmon pink satin dress.
ReplyDeleteOf course you will be shortlisted Sweary. But I'll keep my fingers crossed for you anyway.
ReplyDeleteI'm going whether I get shortlisted or not. It'll be my second night in Dublin and I'll have no friends. Except the lovely Bjarni of course who I will rent out, Flirty Something, for a small fee.
Morgan, I think I must have missed that. I remember Halle Berry doing it but that was okay because it was about being an African American.
Do I get a cut?
ReplyDeleteGood luck Annie, and welcome to Ireland. Yes, we're not gone on Dublin since the peeling veneer and shabby decay of the 1980s has been touched up with tacky modernism. AND it's got so bloody expensive.
ReplyDeleteThanks Conan!
ReplyDeleteAnd Bjarni, 10%.
Congrats Annie, thou art truly a worthy candidate.
ReplyDeleteHow exciting, how exciting! So exciting i had to say it twice.
ReplyDeleteWhat will you wear? and will you get drunk and make a funny speech if you win?!
Good luck, i have my fingers crossed.
Heheh, thanks, but this is only the long-list. I doubt I will even make the short-list, never mind get to make a speech. So I'm not even beginning to think about what I'll wear.
ReplyDeleteOkay, that's a lie, I have already pictured the Versace gown.
Shw mae Annie. When coming to Dublin check out the Dublin Welsh Society http://www.draigwerdd.org/
ReplyDeletehwyl,
Huw Thomas
Do we have to vote?
ReplyDeleteI voted for you and I don't even vote during our presidential elections.
ReplyDeleteHuw: Diolch i chi, I'll check it out. Didn't realise you were in Dublin, just presumed you were back in Wales still.
ReplyDeleteBilly: No.
Neal: Hello stranger! I thought you quit blogging. Thanks for the vote.
I'll vote for you if i can have my bed back when you move out...
ReplyDelete'Old Flatmate' indeed...
See you there! I'll be the one wearing a Burqa to avoid being identified.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to Dublin too, by the way. We need a few more redheads around here.
Yay for you! I'll nip and vote forthwith.
ReplyDeleteWha?? You're moving to Ireland?? How did I miss this???
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your awards!
Popped right over there and put in my votes for you! Your blog is awesome and deserves to win. Fingers crossed and congrats on being nominationed! Now bring home the gold. Or at least move around with it from place to place....
ReplyDeleteI like your new pic Kelso. Are you bedless at the moment? You can have the sponge thingy. Thanks for the vote.
ReplyDeleteYay, JC, I will see you on the red carpet! Although... you're anonymous, right? You can just whisper it in my ear. I'm gonna be on the look out for Twenty all night too. I think he might be a ginger.
Thanks for the vote Fussy!
Isabella, yes, I'm moving to Ireland to be with Bjarni and to start my new career as a "writer". I'll blog about it in more detail soon. I love the cover of your book btw. It looks really nice on the blonkroll.
Ohhh, thanks Rhian, nice words indeed! Cheers.
ReplyDeleteOh! To be with Bjarni! Well that's luurvely! :) Are you going to "write" about your smutty encounters? ;)
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for the compliment on my cover - the artist who made it is very, very talented!
Haha, maybe. I should really buy your book for some tips.
ReplyDeleteNo, I'm going to "write" my "film". It's all in quotation marks at the moment because it's still a daydream.
Pob lwc yn y noson wobrwyo! Would anyone know whether there are similar Welsh awards?
ReplyDeleteDiolch i chi. No, I don't think there are. Which is why I had to blag my way in via my Irish mammy.
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna be on the look out for Twenty all night too. I think he might be a ginger.
ReplyDeleteKeep looking for the gingers. You'll never find me.
Well done you! I have two other friends who were also nominated.
ReplyDeleteI didn't get in myself, and I am a 100% genuine Irish person! (Actually, as it happens, I'd not heard of the things until last week.)