Locked Out, Minxy Birthday Gifts and Awards

You might think I would have done some writing when I was locked out of Blogger over the past few days – but you’d be wrong. I strongly believe that if you carry out the same procedure countless times, you will eventually get a different outcome (who said that was the definition of madness?). I was proved right when, on the millionth attempt, I was able to log in.

Thankfully, all seems to be well now, and the problem means the deadlines for the competitions to win my Minxy Birthday Gift and Rae Summers' Minxy e-book have been extended until tomorrow – winners will be announced on Monday. Pop over to the Minxes’ blog now, for details of this and other great Birthday Prizes.

And, now we’re all safely back, I’d like to thank lovely Teresa and lovely Patsy for nominating me for the Versatile Blogger award.

 As a condition of accepting, I now have to tell you 7 things about myself. This time I’m going to restrict it to food:

1. When there’s a choice, I always choose sweet over savoury. Sometimes, when we’re eating out, I even order a starter instead of a main so I can have a big pudding.

2. I like tomato soup, I like tomato sauce. But I don’t like tomatoes. Never have done. I think it’s the seeds.

3. If I’d married the man who killed two of his wives with poisonous mushrooms and the third with a hammer because she wouldn’t eat the mushrooms (I think it was a joke), I’d have been the one he killed with a hammer. I don’t like mushrooms. It’s the taste and the texture – and the fact I would be eating fungus.

4. I don’t like most fruit or veg. Even the ones I do like seem like a chore, so I always eat them first so I can enjoy the rest of my meal.

5. As far as I’m concerned, nuts in chocolate is a crime against nature.

6. However, everything else is improved by adding chocolate into the equation. I frequently get my ‘five-a-day’ through eating chocolate covered treats (chocolate raisins, Bounty, Chocolate Orange, Fry’s Orange Cream, fruit fondants...).

7. Cooking isn’t my strong point. But I’m great at reheating ready meals.

As I was nominated for the award twice, I will be listing another seven facts soon: 7 reasons why I know my backside’s too big.

Next Wednesday: Wendy S Marcus will be blogging here, and she’ll be giving details of how you can win a copy of her fabulous debut Medical Romance for Harlequin, WHEN ONE NIGHT ISN’T ENOUGH.