Blog Love Sunday#4
February 8, 2009 by Bird
Filed under Blog Love Sunday
Another Sunday, and another chance to spread the blog love… even if, as always, I’m doing it absurdly slowly. A whole fortnight ago I was given this Dardos Award by Kit of Kitmamas Pensieve and finally the pretty thing has made it onto the Mantelpiece. Kit has been a true friend of this Blog pretty much since the outset – how she found me I don’t know but she just turned up one day and started making those kind of warm, intelligent comments that make blogging a joy – suddenly you are writing to a person and not just dumping the contents of your mind willy nilly for your own amusement and curiosity. There is a dialogue, no matter how brief – I like that. (BTW almost randomly but not quite, have you noticed that I now have nested comments? Means we can have [drum roll...] a conversation, we can reply to each others comments in a coherent way! This makes me absurdly happy, so go on try it out why don’t you).
Anyway, back to the subject in hand…
Kit’s blog is a collection of memories, fragments of conversations and photographs of her growing family. It isn’t just an adoring parents scrapbook though; it’s beautifully written and filled with insight, with the fun, boredom, frustration and mystery of parenthood. In the year or so that I’ve been reading, an intimate portrait of parenthood and family life gets painted ever more clearly, with warmth, honesty, and a gobsmacked mothers bright adoration of her children. Don’t just take my word for it… read her yourself.
I’m. . . speechless.
I mean, WOW!!! Thank you so much, Bird. This means a great deal to me, especially coming from you. You truly have made my day. (Nay, more like my week!!) Thank you so much.
Oh, and my husband found your Skye post with stumbleupon, and (serendipitously) he stumbled it to me. I’ve been hooked ever since.
Kit, it took me a while to get that award set up all pretty so the least I could do was thank you properly
You found me on Stumbleupon? That’s great! I’ve always wondered if people who come via SA stick around, now I have the answer!
Congrats on your award, Bird…it’s a beaut and well-deserved!
I took your advice and visited Kitmamas Pensieve. What a lovely blog. I really enjoyed today’s post as it was very calming and made me take notice of my own surroundings. Thanks!
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Thanks Holly! Oh and I just went and checked out what Kit had written today and I agree, it’s a real beauty. I love how she describes the sound of the needles, very evocative.
Actually Bird, although I’ve just read your post and looked at your stupendous slideshow on your main page (you’re getting to be such a geek of excellence with your very individual website, that I stand back in total admiration.)….this is not just a response to your comments on my Flowers blog (which I’ve just read and left a tiny comment on) …you really were the next on my list….I go through all my blogcatalog friends in sequence….then down the feeds on “My Yahoo” sidebar and then through all the oddbods I’ve found…:)
Great Post (I’m freezing my toes off in Dublin at the moment)
xhenry
Henry, you don’t have to explain your blog reading habits to me, my own are quite irregular and disorganised! But thank you for the “Geek of excellence” tag, I will refer to myself in this way henceforth
Hope it’s not too cold…