Liebster Award, thanks Morrighan!

Liebster Award

Morrighan has chosen to nominate me for the Liebster Award!

I really appreciate these awards. It makes me feel a part of things here at WordPress.

The rules are: publicly thank the person that nominated you; then, tell 11 things about yourself. Then, answer the 11 questions asked of you, and, in turn, make 11 questions for your own 11 nominees. Link to those 11 nominees, and tell them about it at their blogs.

So, a huge THANK YOU goes to Morrighan, of The Enchanted Solitaire blog. Her blog posts deal with many interesting subjects, from injustice in prisons to religion to animals to Valentine’s Day.

Morrighan’s questions are:

1. Describe yourself in eleven words.

Newshound, birdwatcher, traveler, pro peace, pro animals, pro justice, pro science.

2. What’s your favourite way to relax?

Looking at what happens in a beautiful natural area.

3. What does the term ‘witch’ mean to you?

As Morrighan already said: “That’s a hard one, it can mean many things to many different people.” Novelist Roald Dahl claims witches are from Norway and want to kill all children. Quite some people hearing the word “witch” imagine a woman with the ability to turn a frog into a prince (or the other way around). A few centuries ago, many women and also quite some men were persecuted cruelly for imaginary accusations of “witchcraft”. Sometimes, this still happens. Very few of the self-described witches of today would recognize themselves in these depictions.

4. There is the last slice of cake at a tea party, do you take it?

Yes, if no one else wants it; and if I have not eaten enough cake already.

5. What’s your favourite hot beverage?

Cocoa.

6. What is your witchy/pagan/occult speciality?

Like Morrighan: “I really don’t think I have a speciality.”

7. Name something that made you laugh so much you cried.

Anton Chekhov’s short plays.

8. Favourite food?

Fruit salad.

9. Favourite perfume?

4711.

10. Favourite film?

Fahrenheit 9/11.

11. If you could be anyone from history, who would you be and why?

President George W Bush of the USA. Then, unlike the real George W Bush, I would not start the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

11 things about me:

1. The blog posts with most followers on my blog are:

Post	Followers
About	7
Long-tailed tits, owls, and flowers	2
Spanish king unwelcome, town says	2
French, Greek voters reject austerity	2
Very Inspiring Blogger Award, thank you Maria de Suède!	2
Blog of the Year 2012 award, thanks waji!	2
São Tomé birds threatened by palm oil	2

2. At the moment, 195 of my blog posts have followers.

3. Where did the visitors of Dear Kitty. Some blog come from this week? Thank you everyone, from wherever you are!

Top Views by Country for 7 days ending 2013-02-20 (Summarized)

Country	Views
United States	1,331
United Kingdom	454
Canada	219
Australia	142
Netherlands	131
Bahrain	120
Jamaica	93
Romania	78
Greece	67
Germany	63
France	61
India	55
New Zealand	45
Singapore	36
Spain	33
Ireland	32
Indonesia	32
Italy	29
Bulgaria	28
Philippines	26
Brazil	24
Armenia	21
Saudi Arabia	21
Norway	17
Turkey	16
Belgium	16
Mexico	16
Hong Kong	14
Sweden	14
Thailand	13
Serbia	13
Argentina	12
Egypt	12
Morocco	12
South Africa	11
Venezuela	10
Lebanon	10
Pakistan	10
Benin	10
Poland	9
Denmark	9
Japan	9
Finland	9
United Arab Emirates	9
Russian Federation	7
Ecuador	7
Jordan	7
Austria	7
Malaysia	7
Switzerland	6
Croatia	6
Portugal	6
Yemen	5
Taiwan	5
Hungary	5
Republic of Korea	5
Cambodia	4
Bolivia	4
Estonia	4
Georgia	4
Sri Lanka	4
Oman	4
Sudan	4
Cyprus	3
Bangladesh	3
Qatar	3
Czech Republic	3
Chile	3
Algeria	3
Israel	3
Ukraine	3
Colombia	3
Nigeria	3
United Republic of Tanzania	2
Kuwait	2
Tunisia	2
Slovenia	2
Viet Nam	2
Kenya	2
Malta	2

4. This week, the most popular posts and pages on my blog were:

Top Posts for 7 days ending 2013-02-20 (Summarized)

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		544
British Thatcher aide accused of child abuse		95
Bahrain dictatorship kills boy Hussein al-Jaziri		87
Versatile Blogger Award, thank you TheGirl!		75
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer		54
About		54
Bahrain regime kills teenager		48
USA: ancient Egyptian sarcophagus as corporate boss’ plaything		45
Nestlé horse meat scandal		44
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update		33
Irish workers defrauded by bankers		32
Love poetry on the Internet		31
New Indonesian owl species discovery		30
War on United States whistleblowers, film		29
Saving English woodland birds		28
Thai women’s escape from Bahraini forced prostitution		26
Awards		25
Liebster Award, thank you Barbara!		25
United States incomes become more unequal		24
French neonazi fuehrer at Cambridge university		24
Britain, North Korea and Mali		23
Marsh tits, parakeets, starlings and sanderlings		22
First godwits, redshank of 2013		22
Dutch horse meat scandal update		22
World’s oldest cheese discovery in Poland		22
African penguin’s thirtieth birthday		20
Frequently asked questions		20
Colombian amphibian discoveries, good and bad		20
Rare yellow-billed loon in the Netherlands		20
Horse meat scandal previous history		20
Galapagos islands: why Darwin’s finches differ in beak size		19
Chekhov’s short plays on stage		19
Red fox den webcam		19
United States women’s movement history		18
International Pangolin Day, 16 February		18
British moles in history		17
British people condemn Iraq war		16
Horse meat scandal in context		16
Nineteenth-century British medicine and graverobbing		16
Wildlife art festival in California		16
New Zealand shore plovers in trouble		15
Tourists’ whale shark photos help scientists		15
Birds help lichen grow		15
Arabian peninsula biodiversity		15
Hurricane Sandy in America, a ‘Frankenstorm’?		15
Horse drug bute in human food chain		14
New frog species discovery in Brazil		14
Coral-destroying starfish research		14
Afghan women march against violence		14
Song about murderer Breivik, video		13
British army insults fallen soldiers for Bahrain dictatorship’s bribe		13
Irish anti-austerity fight		13
Britain: Tony Blair’s own Watergate scandal		13
Plants etc. in the botanical gardens		13
Very Inspiring Blogger Award, thanks Arlen!		12
Günter Grass poem on Greece and austerity, English translation		12
Japanese whaling costs much taxpayers’ money		12
No Valentine’s Day under Bahrain dictatorship		12
European, African, Asian birds spring migration		12
Dutch banks invest in nuclear weapons		12
Internet, for the urban rich only?		12
Valuable sperm whale vomit discovered by small boy		11
Oman workers on strike		11
New African monkey species discovered		11
Holocaust survivor on French neo-fascism		11
Bulgarian red-breasted geese in danger		11
Ghanaian women’s forced prostitution in Bahrain		11
Canada: many dinosaur bones found		10
Spanish government corruption scandal deepens		10
British sculptor Bob Dawson dies		10
War from Syria to the Caucasus?		10
British women’s pay discrimination		10
Guides to spiders, birds, and plants of Israel on the Internet		10
HSBC bank in new crime scandal		10
Kim Kardashian and Bahrain human rights violations		10
Armenian leopards update		10
Scotland: giant centipede, crocodile, and other fossils brought back to life		10

5. From which sites did visitors come this week?

Referrers for 7 days ending 2013-02-20 (Summarized)

Referrer		Views
Search Engines		1,186
WordPress.com		200
topix.com		115
mail.yahoo.com		99
Google		88
WordPress Dashboard		27
2012indyinfo.com		25
en.gravatar.com/petrel41		22
google.co.uk		20
Facebook		14
Twitter		12
mail.live.com		8
bellnight.wordpress.com		7
feedmenewsnow.tumblr.com/post/43030830368/dutch-banks-invest-in-nuclear-weapons		6
twingly.com		5
4writersandreaders.com		5

6. What search terms did visitors of my blog search this week?

Search Terms for 7 days ending 2013-02-20 (Summarized)

who is the former tory minister accused of child abuse	20
worlds oldest cheese poland	19
charles darwin finches	8
censorship in qatar	7
who is the cabinet minister accused of child abuse	6
ex tory accused	6
prostitution in bahrain	6