Post Of The Day

We have joint winners today – cue the applause for Colleen with Slightly Bent and Vic Grace with Photo. Also in the running were Crystal Jigsaw with Shepherd’s Approval; Jules Stones with This Is No Way To Mop A Floor; Jennifer Harvey with Life Imitating Hell, And Turning It All Around; Casdok with Brain Art; Sandi McBride with Shoes; Mushy’s Moochings with The Crystal Forest; QuillDancer with The Spot and Fat Hairy Bastard with Monday Rant. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

You can nominate a post too. Just leave a comment here with the URL or link - and tell us the name of the blogger you are nominating. You can nominate more than one post. And yes, you can even nominate your own work. Righty-o, then, it's over to you ....

Post Of The Day

Today's big prize goes to that wonderful Canadian blogger Vic Grace, for Heads Or Tails. Among the other posts that caught my attention were Jeff B's I Like Mine Toasted; Kathryn's Losing My Marbles; Such Simple Pleasures with How I Came To The Realisation I’m No Longer Young; Sandy Carlson's Inspiration; Dot's Wings; Lynn's Sash Windows; Barn Goddess with Imposter II; Charles Gramlich with Titles Revisited and for some visual comic relief, I had to include Meeyauw's My Lunar Eclipse Picture. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

Post Of The Day

Clap ya hands and stomp ya feet and let's have some hootin' and hollerin' for today's joint winners, Classy Chaos with One Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Vic Grace with Heads Or Tails - Love. Among the other major contenders for today were Confessions of a Coalminer's Granddaughter with Bloodletting; Conservachick with One Month Later; I’m Being Held Hostage with We’re all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars; Suldog with Operation; Casdok with Food Shaped and Les Becker with The Big Extra Copy Caption Contest. Do pay them a visit and leave them a comment if you have time.

Winner Of The Limerick Contest

Old Tom Wigley Has The Last Laugh

Presenting the winner of the inaugural Loony Limerick Competition - please put your hands together for Old Tom Wigley. I can now reveal that the judge for the contest was the eminently readable Canadian blogger Vic Grace.

Thank you for all the great entries, with some really memorable interpretations of the last line. There will be another contest shortly. In the meantime, here is Tom's winning effort:

There was a young fellow from Queens,

Who had really bad breath in his teens.

So he flossed and he brushed,

And his buddies were all crushed,

When he became the new face for Maclean's.

Say Grace

Forget Tolstoy, This Is Warm And Peace

Vic Grace, who writes the Cariboo Ponderer blog, has a very interesting post called Warm The Globe Through Friendship. She says: “We all love to have people stop by and comment, don't we …. could this be the real global warming?” Nice twist on a popular phrase, Vic. She’s promoting an ever-growing list of links, so do pay her a visit and tell her what you think.

Malcolm In The Muddle

What's In A Name?

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON

I've been tagged by BC-based Vic Grace, who in turn was tagged by Wisconsin-based Anna, so I have to reveal my middle name. But because blogging by nature is an interactive medium, I'll throw the question open to all of you - can YOU guess my middle name? Leave me a comment with your guess and I'll eventually reveal the answer.

About ten years ago, when I worked for The Sunday Age newspaper, there were two tickets up for grabs to a really good concert. The tickets were promised to the person who could reveal the most middle names of the staff. It was great to watch the contest unfold. Eventually there were only two journalists - yours truly and one other writer - whose middle names had not been revealed.

The winner, a good friend of mine, used an innovative method. She rang the human resources department and uncovered the fact that the other bloke's middle name was Fleetwood. Then, chuckling at her own creativity, she rang my wife and asked what my middle name was.

But YOU can't ring my wife this time around - so hazard a guess in the comments section ...

Post Of The Day

Today's winner is Vic Grace, a Canadian blogger who scoops the award with the post Poop by any other name. Her writing style is clean and uncomplicated and her presentation touches on a variety of topics. She makes me wonder what really happens when a sailor is assigned to the poop deck!

And for something intriguing, have a look at Carol's post Spooky.

If you'd like to nominate a post, leave me a comment with the url.