One Lovely Blog Award

My blog has just received the One Lovely Blog Award from Allyn at Allyn's Blog "Dreaming with Words". Thank you so much Allyn I am absolutely delighted to receive this special award.

The requirements of receiving the award are:
1. To thank the giver and link back to her site.
2. Provide 5 random facts that folks may not know about you.
3. Pass this award on to 5 other lovely blog sites and let them know you're awarding them.
4. Copy the award logo and paste it onto your own site.


So here we go with 5 random facts about me that you probably'd don't know.

I collect almost anything to do with childhood - books, magazines, ceramics, toys, games, textiles and ephemera of all kinds.

I was given a toy guitar for my tenth birthday and eventually learnt to play Hang down your head Tom Dooley and Leaning on a lamppost. They were the only two tunes I mastered and I played them over and over and over again.

When I was a little girl my dad used to sign - underneath the lantern by the barrack gate, darling I remember the way you used to wait, 'twas there that you whispered tenderly that you loved me you'd always be my Lili of the lamplight my ow Lili Marlene. It was the only song I ever heard him sing.

School friends used to call me Flickers - I'm not going to tell you why!

My grandma Daisy refused to spend money on toilet paper; if you needed to use the toilet she handed you a newspaper and a pair of scissors. It was essential to cut the newspaper into neat squares otherwise it wouldn't flush!

Here are my 5 nominations;
Carry Us Off Books
Storybook Love Affair
Sharon's Sunlit Memories
The Desert Rocks
The world from my window

Congratulations, I hope you all have fun with the award.