Hey, I’m feeling half self-important in a kind of ecstatic kind of way.
Someone went out of their way to nominate me Blog Awards Ireland 2013 in the Best Blog of the Irish Diaspora (or something like that) category. It’s, like, amazing and stuff. Thing is I’m lumped in with about sixty other blogs, including the Irish Times Generation Emigration blog (which I don’t think is fair as it’s this person’s JOB!), and other wonderful blogs like Kate Katharina, and of course Paju‘s finest WHATAWAYGOOK (yes, I often wonder if all the capitals are necessary but then again if you met the author…).
Anyway, the point is, I don’t stand a bleeding chance. But in the meantime I’m at least going to try and get some new readers and followers and possibly try to beef up the old blog with some more up-to-date ness, including some photographs – much easier to look at then the usual 3,000 word tome I’m fond of.
So yeah, that’s the news. I’m a nominee. Of course my only advantage is that someone might actually read my blog and like it, and that someone might be a judge, or all the judges, because it’s not a voting thing. Sometimes blog writing people like my blog, so that is good. But then again I probably don’t stand a chance, which is the right attitude in all cases of competition I find myself in. It means less disappointment, y’know.
With all that in mind, I thought that I’d just finish with this thought on bloggery.
If I had a minute to spare... 
Hi Conor,
I know how you feel. I too have been nominated on the Lo……..ng-list & got just a wee bit excited.
I don’t have a gnats chance of winning, let alone making it to the short-list but am getting an increase in activity on my blog. You however, do have a good chance of being promoted to the next level.
It is now that I wish I was not such a techno-phobe [possibly not the right word]. Having created a simple blog to document my Ireland holiday over a year ago, I now find I’m terrified to experiment with more modern formats for fear of loosing the whole page!
Still, the upside is that this list has lead me here to your blog which I enjoyed reading.
Good Luck
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Hi Paddy, not so sure about myself, as I know that the competition is tough. Wish (or maybe I don’t) I knew what each blog was been judged on….
Extra attention is great however!
Best of luck in this 🙂
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Love the Blogging meme, I may ave to steal it! 🙂 I thought there were 40something of us, but then I’m dyslexic….
It’s nice to be nominated 🙂 as Paddy says, it gets us to meet other bloggers, and in this section, the rarity an Irish blogger abroad
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Hi Barbara, sorry for the delayed response.
You may help yourself to the blogging meme. I took it from somewhere else.
Yes, it’s a great opportunity for more exposure, as well as a small token of recognition for all the hours put in.
Best of luck with it!
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Thanks 🙂
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I stand corrected… 62 or 63 (they kept moving) and also *have, not ave!!
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http://timetoconsiderthelilies.com/2013/08/30/a-kite-for-seamus-heaney/
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Good luck in your category, we should know at the end of the week if we have been shortlisted! Was thinking of writing a blog called “If Carlsberg wrote blogs” and your poster above would be perfect for it so I too shall be borrowing it!
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Wow, next week! Now I will have all sorts of jitters!
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