I received this Sunshine award from Nickie at Typecast (@nickie72) who seems to be even more popular than Lady Ga Ga!! So thank you for that Nickie, it brightened up my day - and has even actually made the sunshine in the sky work today! Whoop whoop! I am going to pass this award on to the following people for the following reasons.
(see the rules of acceptance at the bottom of this post... )Oh.. and I've linked both their Twitter profiles and their Blog's for ease of following!
Firstly I'll pass it back to Nickie at Typecast as a thank you for sending it to me and also because she has the same surname and kettle as us. 
Claire from The Good, The Bad + The Ugly because until November I was a complete blog virgin and http://omgip.blogspot.com/ was the first blog I ever read! 
Emma from Me, The Man and The Baby because I met her at the Baby Show yesterday and despite train delays and hours and hours of travelling with little Oliver, she still seemed full of sunshine! (and she is going to be part of my new bloggers book club!) 
Jane at Fired4U Who I don't think has a blog but I'm going to pass the Sunshine Award to her anyway because she is always happy which brightens anyone's day up! 
Liz from Dilly Dots Tots Who again is just one of those happy hyper chatty people and who springs to mind with the word Sunshine. (And who I know is about to start a new blog so this is her first post sorted!) 
Sian from Mummytips not because I've known her for over 7 whole years, not because she is the bestest nursery PR guru in the whole world... but because she secretly wants my light-up slapper lip gloss!!! and the only reason I didn't pass this over to her originally is because I thought she probably already has about ten million of them and she still owes me a 'gob fulla marshmallow meme' !!!And the following people because they are all joining me and two UK book publishers to review parenting and children's books in a new bloggers book club!
Kelly from A Place of My Own, Leslieanne from Life With a Little Dude, Toria from Mumatalk, Debbie from Click for Options + Monkey Wishes (blog), Sarah from Kookylicious and Green Kiddie from Green Kiddie (and Emma from Me, The Man and The Baby who was mentioned above of course) 
The reason being he was the one who invited me to Twitter...
and if it wasn't for that...
I probably woudn't have joined back in August 09 because all my friends are die-hard facebook geeks...
therefore, I wouldn't have met the Tweeters I have met...
therefore wouldn't have stumbled across the blogs I stumbled across...
therefore I definitely would have never started my own blog...
And therefore I wouldn't be passing on this Sunshine Award!!!
(and instead of sat here writing this post, I would have been cleaning the house)
So thanks dude! You've managed to change a bit of destiny!!! (I think Mick would have preferred me to be cleaning!)
There are a few rules for receiving this award....
Here they are.
1 - Put the Sunshine Award logo in your blogs sidebar or within your Sunshine Award post
2 - Pass the award onto the Bloggers you deem worthy of it3 - Link the nominees within your post
4 - Let the nominees know they have received this award by commenting on their blog
5 - Share the love - link to the person from whom you received this award.
PS... visit Nickie's Sunshine post where you will find a handy little html code for the Sunshine award
PPS... If you aren't already following our lovely Book Club Bloggers - can you please do so. A few of them are new bloggers so need some followers to get started. We'll also have a separate blog for the book club so I'll let you know when its all go go go! Thanks :)
Oh.. and any suggestions for it's name???
Surnames and kettles go hand in hand...
Thanks for passing it back x
AAAhhhh, THANK YOU! :D *mwah*
Thank you very much! Really looking forward to it :)
so what have I done? Was it the comment about your light up slapper lip gloss?
no award.... (sob)
no invite to the book club..... (sob sob...)
Is it my hair?
I am beside myself....
lol U've got an award now!! Oh and the Bloggers Book Club, I tweeted about it a while back.. U can be in if you want!! U just get sent books for free and you need to review them... We cant meet like actual book clubs so we will have to cyber meet and drink cyber wine every now and again :)
Cyber-hangovers are soooo much easier to cope with! ;-)
I wish today's hangover was due to cyber vino!!!!!
Thankyou,it's almost like i'm a bafta winner!(yes,it's been a long time since I received any sort of award!!!)
Aww Thank You! And what a lovely way to present it!
Have blogged about it :)
http://pokeintheeyewithastick.blogspot.com/2010/02/sunshine-award.html
How lovely, now im all set up with my blog I have something to write on it!! Thanks Manda xxx
Thanks everyone - you're welcome xxx