"An Award For Style You Say?"

"Ding dong I say!"

Yep, I too have been nominated for the "Stylish Blogger Awards" currently doing the rounds thanks to the following fine gentlemen :

Legatus Hedlius
Sander
Paulalba &
Ross Mac

In line with the rules here are 7 things you probably don't know about me and once you have read them you will realise why you never bothered to ask:

Met and married Mrs Golding in less than 6 months-that was 18 years ago.

Work in the public sector...at the moment at least. There is a Cabinet full of people trying to stop this!

Once got "nudged" by a 4 foot shark while snorkeling off the Great Barrier Reef.

Nearly s£@t myself once-off the Great Barrier Reef funnily enough!

Have no feeling in my right little finger after breaking it in several places following a motorcycle crash.

Have managed to crash more than half the motorbikes I have owned-no longer allowed to own motorbikes!

Finally (and most embarrassing of all) some of you (of a certain age) may well remember this fellow on the left. They were very popular in the 70s and were called "Moppets". If you examine the signature you will see they were done by "D.Golding"-aka "Dad" to me!

Asked to paint a set of barefooted urchin children with big eyes and sad faces guess who Dad based this fellow on? Yep, its me. I used to have a big mop of blond hair (hence the name), caught sticklebacks in Priory Park using a stick and fishing line and that jumper was knitted for me by my Nan. (Others in the set were a boy in striped pyjamas-my older brother and two girls-based on my cousins).

And finally, some more deserving blogs that I encourage you to visit. Obviously this thing is getting bigger all the time and a number of other blogs have already accepted their awards and so I chose the following blogs because they have not yet succumbed, although they may already have been nominated!

In no particular order:

Hinton Hunt Vintage Wargame Figures - a labour of love and beacon of single minded determination! (That makes it sound rather dramatic don't you think?)

Project Liepzig - Rafa's fantastic blog showing you can have loads of fun in this old hobby of ours!
Plastic Pelisse - a public service for 1/72nd scale figure collectors!

Diniums Loft - just check out the painting and you will see why!

Warfare in the Age of Steam - cracking collection of images, history and everything!

Plastic General - top notch 1/72nd scale eye candy!

Garage Gamer - now this is how to play wargames!

Now all I have to do is break the news to them all.

Proper posts to follow in the next couple of days!