The sigh is because one year ago I was in Rome, (see picture) and I had great plans to go back there again at the same time this year. But obviously I haven't. I'm not even in Paris right now, which I think explains the normalness of the recent posts. Paris inspires, and often creates, madness. Woah, this was supposed to be about Rome and I am already off track. I think I have mentioned before my love/hate relationship with Italy ... hate is too strong a word, its just the goddamned mental driving I can't cope with. It makes driving round the Parisian peripheral road seem fun by comparison. Everything else about Italy is great though. Uh, well ... let's not start about Italian politics. (Did you notice Paris got squeezed in there again a couple of sentences ago though) Sigh.

Almost forgot the real point of this post. I was thinking about blog awards the other day after spotting a few blogs which declare themselves award-free, which is fair enough. Let's not get into the whys and why nots here though. I'm just going to invent an award and some rules and hand it out ... I seriously dont know where this is going.

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Ah well, its the fish again.


I'm handing it out to five people, because more than five is a waste. Of time perhaps.

So here they are ......

Scarlet over at Scarlet On The Couch because she seems to be fairly new to all this but posts like crazy. The photos are few, but if you like to read a lot, shoot over there right now. 

Phoenix over at res ipsa loquitur because she writes long posts which don't feel like long posts. Like this.

Jasmine over at an experiment in poverty for various reasons, especially this post.

De'May over at De'May Plush for this and this.

Actually, I have just discovered that the last blog I was going to nominate has disappeared, which has kind of ruined my night. Why? So I am going to leave it at four for now, but there will be more in the future I suspect. It's kind of difficult doing this kind of thing, what with all the good stuff out there. Whatever. Ah yeah, rules for the award. There are none. No, there are a couple. Give it to someone else. Five MAXIMUM. But you have to mention a specific post when you do. Or of course, if you are award-free, then you can store it in the attic ... no worries!