Any of you who’ve been around me for the past few days may have noticed a certain.. increase in cheerfulness in my demeanour. Almost like I knew something absolutely brilliant that I had to sit on for a few days. Like there was something I was itching to tell you all.
There was! To my absolute incredulity, Consider the Tea Cosy has been shortlisted for this year’s GALA ONLINE Award for Website/Blogger of the Year. Some of you sneaky feckers went and nominated me behind my back, didn’t you?
For those of you who aren’t aware of the GALAs, it stands for the Gay And Lesbian Awards. They’re the annual awards of the Irish National Gay and Lesbian Federation, set up, as the NGLF say, “to honour lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people and organisations for their contributions to Irish society”.
Well.. shucks. I’ll be over here turning cherry-red, muttering something about how you shouldn’t have and hoping someone puts the kettle on before I go into full-on babble mode. To say I’m flattered, honoured, and utterly flabbergasted would be quite the understatement.
I’m in some pretty damn illustrious company- in my own category with GLEN (the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network) and my fellow Corkonians and one of my old haunts GayCork.com, and in the awards as a whole with, oh, absolutely everybody. I can think of far, far worse ways to spend your evening than by looking up every last one of ‘em.
Oh that’s lovely. Congratulations! I do hope you win! ^.^
Thank you! To be honest- and I know this is a cliche, but I really feel this way- it’s just such an honour to be shortlisted. No matter what happens, I couldn’t be happier
Well done.
Thanks hun. I’m beyond thrilled and simultaneously utterly mortified as only an Irish person given a compliment can be
Congratulations! And here were, thinking nobody but your mom reads your blog…
If it wasn’t that this week was the first she’d heard of the GALAs (about ten minutes before she and my dad bought themselves tickets for it!), I’d be sooooo blaming her for nominating me in the first place
Haha! Now you’ll just have to accept that other people read you and love you
Either that or my mum is actually a Time Lord who got herself into a bit of a paradox after finding out about my shortlisting, hopping back in time a few months and nominating me. Which I’ll admit is marginally less unlikely than some other people reading the blog too. But who doesn’t want a Time Lord for a mum?
That is a very good point. Time Lord parents would be awesome.
All told, though, I think the “They like me, they really like me” scenario is a tad more likely. :p
Congratulations, and all the best
Thanks so much!
SQUUEEEEE I hope you wiiiiin congrats! <3
Win shmin. I’m mainly worried about finding something fabulous to wear on the night! And OMG WHAT WILL I DO WITH MY HAIR?!
Congrats!
Congratulations! That’s awesome!
Unfortunately, now that you’ve gone mainstream I won’t be able to read your blog anymore
Pssssh, you could just go on about how you way preferred my Early Work. I’ll even send you some godawful teenage poetry I wrote, for maximum hipster cred