Blog of the Year 2012 award, thanks Miss Marzipan and Kaye!

A very happy 2013 to all readers of my blog!

EDIT: sorry, I messed up this blog post. I hope that I have reconstructed it OK now.

Oh, Kaye and Miss Marzipan, you are so kind, to grace Dear Kitty. Some blog with the “Blog of the Year 2012″ Award!

It is the nineteenth and twentieth time. That would be the nineteenth and twentieth star, for this award for this blog. However, the maximum number of stars for the “Blog of the Year 2012″ Award is six.

So, no twentieth star and no new nominations. Well: just two nominations. I am giving a star back to Kaye, to display on her blog. Kaye’s blog has many interesting posts, on the Woodland Trust‘s conservation work in Britain.

I really appreciate Kaye thinking of my blog. If you have not met Kaye yet, then please check out her fine blog.

I am also giving a star back to Miss Marzipan, to display on her blog. Miss Marzipan’s blog has many interesting posts, on recipes and other subjects.

I really appreciate Miss Marzipan thinking of my blog. If you have not met Miss Marzipan yet, then please check out her delicious blog, here.

The “Blog of the Year” award is a little different from some other awards, because you accumulate stars.

Here are the ‘rules’ for this award:

1 Select the blog(s) you think deserve the ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award

2 Write a blog post and tell us about the blog(s) you have chosen – there’s no minimum or maximum number of blogs required – and ‘present’ them with their award.

3 Let the blog(s) you have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the ‘rules’ with them.

4 You can now also join our Facebook group … [I cannot join that group as I am not on Facebook. And that link is gone].

5 As a winner of the award – please add a link back to the blog that presented you with the award – and then proudly display the award on your blog and sidebar … and start collecting stars…

Yes – that’s right – there are stars to collect!

Unlike other awards which you can only add to your blog once – this award is different!

When you begin you will receive the ‘1 star’ award – and every time you are given the award by another blog – you can add another star!

There are a total of 6 stars to collect.

Which means that you can check out your favourite blogs, and even if they have already been given the award by someone else, then you can still bestow it on them again and help them to reach the maximum 6 stars!