Sunshine Award

I got the Sunshine Award from Eldritch the Dragon!
Thank you Eldritch

As part of the award thing I have to answer some questions about me.

My favourite number:
16, because my birthday is on the 16th.

My favourite non-alcoholic drink:
Non-alcoholic? Hmmm..... I'm going for hot chocolate in that case.

Do I prefer Facebook or Twitter:
I will confess I'm not on Facebook, but my owner is, and they have some fun games on there. Twitter is fun for talking with people I know. So I like both.

My passion:
Travelling! (and zombies)

My favourite pattern:
The tartan pattern that's in my blog banner.

My favourite day of the week:
Any day that my owner takes me to do something fun.

My favourite flowers:
Snow Drops and Lady's Smock


Now I have to pass this award on to other bloggers, but I think most of my blogging friends already got this award, so I;m passing it along to anyone of my loyal followers who doesn't have it yet.

I'm a Toy Tourist

I got this cool award from Marlowe!

"I'm A Toy Tourist!" Award
Who's a Toy Tourist?? Any toy who travels around, takes photos and shares their adventures!

I'm supposed to pass this award on to others, but as all my animal friends already have gotten this award as far as I know, I will just state that any toy who hasn't got this award yet and wants it, can claim it.

Lucky Sheep Award

I've been awarded the Lucky Sheep Award
by Raquel from Mis Peluches NICI!

I've been giving this award for being a regular visitor at Mis Peluches NICI and helping make the blog a happy place. If you haven't been to Mis Peluches NICI yet, be sure to drop by. It's a fun blog with lots of beautiful pictures and many fluffy and cute sheep and other animals.

Thanks Raquel!
I feel honoured.

Party Time

I looked at the advent calendar yesterday and saw that it was the 10th of December already!

That meant:

We had an Award Party from work!

There were lots of people at the party and there was a stage with big Oscar statues.

A Marilyn Monroe impersonator gave a performance.

There were speeches and they gave away awards and i-phones. I think our team deserved an award too, but we didn't get one!

I met Shaun at the party!
He came by to see if his cousin Frank was at the party, but we didn't see Frank.

And here I am with my owner.
We had a great evening. There was food, drinks, music to dance to and fun collegues. This was the first party from work that I went to, but I think I'll be going again next year.

Two Awards!

I got two awards!

First up: The Happy 101 Award which I got from Sally Ann
(If you haven't done so yet, check out the blog she shares with her big brother Mack.)

The Awards Rules:
Rule #1 - Copy image to your blog
Rule #2. List 10 things that make you happy and try to do one today.
In no particular order of significance
Rule #3 - Tag 10 bloggers who brighten your day.

So my list:
1 - Watching horror movies
2 - Playing board and/or card games
3 - Blogging
4 - Travelling
5 - Reading books with zombies in them
6 - Listening to my cousin Gavin's stories
7 - Hanging out with my big brother Angus
8 - Getting mail
9 - Snow
10 - Relaxing with good food and something nice to drink close by

As for tagging:
I like to give this Award to:
Hammie
Beanie
Eve
Demented Wench
Marlowe
Queen of Clearance
Six blogs and friends who brighten my day.
And again: If you've never checked out these blogs: make sure you do.

On to the second award I got:

The Kreativ Blogger Award given to me by Hammie
With the award you have to write 7 things that people don't know about you.

Hmmmm..... I'm not sure if people don't kow these things, but let me list 7 facts about me.
1 - I've got four brother's and one of them, Gilbert is my twin brother.
2 - Once I got an email from a pig who thought he was a distant relative, but I've never been able to figure out if he was.
3 - Even though I'm from a scottish family, I'm not stingy or greedy.
4 - I dream of one day making a trip to Paris or London.
5 - When I do manage to go to Paris I want to see the Père Lachaise Cemetery and in London I want to visit the Highgate Cemetery.
6 - As you might have guessed from 5: I love cemeteries, I think they're beautiful and peaceful.
7 - One of my all time heroes is Doctor Zoidberg from Futurama

And giving this award to:
Everyone who feels creative and hasn't got it yet.

the Honest Scrap award and some pictures

I got the honest Scrap Award from Eve

Thank you Eve!

This is what the award is about:

1. “The Honest Scrap” award is not one to hold all to your self but it must be shared!
2. First, the recipient has to tell 10 true things about themselves in their blog that no one else knows.
3. Second, the recipient has to pass along this prestigious award to 10 more bloggers.
4. Third, those 10 bloggers all have to be notified they have been given with this award.
5. Those 10 bloggers that receive this award should link back to the blog that awarded them “The Honest Scrap’ award.

10?! It seems like it keeps getting more and more!

Hmmm... Let me start with the honesty things:

1 - If I hadn't been adopted into the household of my owner and her OH, I would have spend my life as a keychain mascot.

2 - I'm not the first pig to escort my owner to her work, my brother Angus used to go with her, but he retired.

3 - Although the McPigs are scottish, we were brought to the Netherlands by the German company Nici.

4 - Even though I'm a pig, I do not like mud.

5 - One time when I was enjoying a short rest among the flowers, I got pollen on me and my owner had to wash my back to get it off or I would have had yellow spots on my back.

6 - The animals that I despise more then anything in the world are moths.

7 - I think 'Charlotte's Web' needs a couple of zombies to make it more interesting.

8 - I love the Killer Tomato movies.

9 - One of my favourite actors is Vinnie Jones

10 - I can't swim

Ehmm.... now about passing it on....

I think I'll pass as I really don't know 10 people to pass it on to..

On to today's pictures:

We went to a store to buy more paint for the door and there was a swing outside. I had to try it out ofcourse.

This old factory was turned into an office complex.

I'm glad they decided to keep the chimney.

An Award!

I got an award from Eve !

This is what the award is all about:

"This award is bestowed on to blogs that are exceedingly charming.

These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers.

Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award."

Eight!?

Hmmmm.... Well, as Eve already got one I wil give it to just one person I'm afraid:

Marie

Thank you, Eve, for this very nice award, it makes me feel very humble and proud at the same time.

BFF Award and What I did today.

Eve gave me and my owner the BFF Award, aka: Blogging Friends Forever Award!

We're very proud and honoured that we got this award.

Thank you Eve!

These are Eve's rules:

Please give this award to 3-7 people who you'd like to be Blogging Friends Forever with. This could be a fellow blogging friend you just met to an older blogging friend, however you'd like to do it-you can tweak that part to your desire, I won't mind. And of course, tell a lil' (or more) why you gave each blogging friend (forever) the award. And have him/her pass it on as well. Sound good? *Oh & please link the person's blog (if they have one) that you give the award to...and also link me, so other people can see what I wrote about you too!

My owner and I thought for awhile and decided to give the award to:

Marie

My owner met Marie online years ago on a forum and they have kept contact since. Marie is one of the kindest and sweetest people we've come across online. She also has my cousin Moira staying at her place and helps Moira to keep us updated on how Moira is doing.

Eve

Eve has been a loyal follower of my blog since, well, somewhere in the beginning. She is a fun and sweet person who has lots of the same interests as my owner and I and she also has a cousin of mine living at her place: Boo.

To both of you:

We value your friendship and hope we'll keep in touch for many more years to come!

And if we're ever going to be enormously rich, we're buying a planeticket to come visit you, but don't expect us anytime soon sadly enough.

Now on to my day:

We went shopping for some stuff and on our way home we stopped to take this picture.

As we were taking the picture suddenly we heard a lot of noise behind us. It turned out to be these geese, who seemed to think we stopped to give them something to eat.

They were very annoyed when they discovered we didn't have anything for them.


One of the things my owner bought today. It says: 'Notebook for sunny thoughts'

Zombie Chicken Award!

I got a really cool award from Eve:

the Zombie Chicken Award!
Thank you Eve, I feel honoured!

This is what the zombie Chicken Award is all about:

The Zombie Chicken
"The blogger who receives this award believes in the Tao of the Zombie Chicken, excellence, grace, and persistence in all situations, even in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. These amazing bloggers regularly produce content so remarkable that their readers would brave a raving pack of zombie chickens just to be able to read their inspiring words. As a recipient of this world-renowned award, you now have the task of passing it on to at least 5 other worthy bloggers. Do not risk the wrath of the zombie chickens by choosing unwisely or not choosing at all..."

So..... now to chose who to give the award to.

Or maybe I won't, because the thought of Zombie Chickens coming after me is kind of cool!

Well, better not risk it, my owner might decide she doesn't want to take pictures anymore if there's a flock of Zombie Chickens getting in the way.

So I pass this Award on to:

Coco with his blog: Bird's-eye views

He's been offline for a bit, but I know he'll be back soon and prove to be worthy of this award.

Martha and William

Two really sweet elephants who keep in touch with each other through their blog.

And I want to add that I give all three the freedom to chose not to pass on the award as I wouldn't want any of them come to harm by avenging Zombie Chickens.

Award, Spring and a picture for Marie

I'm feeling very proud today because I got a Passionate Blogger Award from Eve

Isn't it cool!

Thanks Eve.

Well, spring is here and that means bye bye Snowdrops...
They're only blooming for a short time in late winter unfortunately.
But it being spring means that soon there'll be Lady's Smock and other pretty spring flowers.

And now a picture especially for Marie:

Meet Ellie!
Ellie is another one of my housemates and she's shy, but really nice. In the evening, just before bedtime, Ellie always joins us to listen to Gavin's stories.