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Sunday 17 October 2010

Versatile Bloggers

Sunday, October 17, 2010 |

Posted by Satima Flavell

A couple of weeks back, the very wonderful Kim Falconer passed on a meme/award. Now, I’m a sucker for memes, and as for awards – well, who doesn’t appreciate a bit of kudos now and then?

Here’s the meme part: Award Recipients list seven things about themselves that their readers might not know. Here are my seven – the first one is identical to Kim’s!

1. I love dark chocolate
2. Dogs are my favourite animals, followed by cats, sheep and pigs
3. I love language and communication in all forms
4. History is possibly the one thing I love even more than language, and only just behind language follow ballet (and dance generally) Yoga and meditation
5. My musical tastes run to Folk/Ethnic, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Romantic
6. Jobs I’ve worked at include Astrologer/Palmist, Ballet Teacher, Dancer (of the tits’n’feathers persuasion), Database Manager, Editor, English Coach, Housekeeper, Family History Researcher Freelance Journalist and Pig Farmer
7. I have lived in five countries, at a total of over 30 addresses. And that’s not counting house-sits and other temporary places of abode!

And speaking of house-sits, here is my Playmate of the Month, Jayjay. She is a lovely placid puddytat, whose only foible is a spot of tail lashing when dinner is not what she wanted. But she always manages to swallow her pride and eat it anyway! She's my Playmate of the Month because I am house-sitting for her family for the whole of October. This is the longest house-sit I've had this year and comes as a blessed isle of calm after so many moves in such a short few months!

The Versatile Blogger Award is hard to pass on, because most bloggers don’t set out to be versatile. They blog, often very eruditely, on one topic and one topic only. There are heaps of wonderful blogs devoted to exclusively to writing, reading, language, history, music, dance and all the other things I love – and things I hate, too, come to that! But here are some blogs that don’t limit themselves to one topic and so often come up with the odd surprise to keep the reader interested.

First, my friend Jo Wake, who blogs on travel, cooking, reading, current affairs and life's vicissitudes generally.

Then there’s Laura Goodin who can turn her pen to movies, books, fencing (the foils and sabres kind, not the 12-gauge wire kind) as well as fiction writing and topics related thereto.

And my friend and crit buddy Fiona Leonard, who blogs on anything and everything, especially travel and current affairs. Fiona has travelled widely and currently lives in Ghana, so her posts often deal with matters that seem exotic to those of us left behind in Oz! Her posts are often graced by photos taken by her clever partner, Nyani Quarmyne.

Lisa Gold calls herself the Research Maven, and she researches for writers on any and every possible topic. She passes on the gems she mines via the blog.

Author extraordinaire Karen Miller is a woman of many parts, and it shows in her very versatile blog. Karen writes on writing (of course) and also theatre, current affairs, biography, music and more.

Sue Isle is a versatile author as well as a versatile blogger, as she writes both YA and adult stories. And her hobby is keeping rats! If you want to learn about these fascinating and much-maligned animals, Sue’s your woman.

Gillian Polack is another author whose interests are legion. She loves both history and cooking, so the history of all things culinary features largely in her blog posts. But that’s only the beginning. Her blog provides unique entertainment and is often a barrel of laughs, sometimes through tears.

Lastly, a pat on the back for my Egoboo friends, Carol Ryles, Helen Venn, Joanna Fay and Sarah Parker. The five of us together pretty much cover the spectrum of interests and lifestyles, and I like to think this infinite variety is reflected in our posts!

8 comments:

Laura E. Goodin said...: I am flattered and gratified to be included in your list of versatile bloggers!; Sunday, October 17, 2010
Satima Flavell said...: I was just about to send you an e-mail telling you about it!; Sunday, October 17, 2010
Satima Flavell said...: BTW, Laura, you can copy the pretty green award from the bottom of the first column, if you'd like to display it on your blog.; Sunday, October 17, 2010
Anonymous said...: Thank you kindly!

I got stuck on the naming other bloggers - too much choice and too tired a brain.; Sunday, October 17, 2010
Alex Isle said...: Thanks very much for the Versatile Blogger award. Now I will wrack brain to come up with seven things people don't know about me!

I should mention I'm not a children's author, or not just. I enjoy YA (teen) fiction a lot and write in that field, but some of my output is definitely not for children!; Sunday, October 17, 2010
Satima Flavell said...: Ooh, sorry, Sue - I know you've done plenty of adult short fiction, but I thought your longer works were for children. I'll change the post as I'd hate to mislead people!; Sunday, October 17, 2010
Jo said...: Thank you kindly, maam, she said. I appreciate it. I do feel you left Glenda off the list though. Her blog writing is extremely varied, in my opinion.; Sunday, October 17, 2010
Satima Flavell said...: Yes, Glenda Larke has one of the best and most interesting blogs around. However, she already has this award - Kim gave it to her as well!; Sunday, October 17, 2010

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