Would you believe it. I can’t quite believe it myself, but you are
now reading the Lib Dem Blog of the Year 2013.
I feel slightly embarrassed to admit this,
because I have only been blogging seriously since February, and I was among a
number of really brilliant fellow nominees, any of whom could have won. So I am ever so grateful to those who
nominated me – and very grateful to my fellow nominees who I have read to learn
how to do it.
I have run this blog since 2007, but in
rather a fitful way – and gave up entirely while I was at the Cabinet Office
organising an independent review. It
didn’t seem to fit very comfortably with being independent.
Then, earlier this year, in a desperate
attempt to sell a few of my books, I started doing in every day. Soon I couldn’t stop. Goodness knows where all this will end.
So there I was at the Lib Dem Voice awards
last night in the Crown Plaza hotel in Glasgow, which – like the conference
centre – is a bit like Hampton Court maze, minding my own business, having been
assured that I was quite safe and I didn’t have a cat in hell’s chance of
winning.
What was I to say? Well, blogs are an effective protection for
people who don’t think very well on their feet.
Of course I hadn’t the foggiest idea what to say then.
So I’m just going to devote this post to a
few more expressions of gratitude . . .
. . . to everyone who has been reading what
I write, and who devote those minutes from their precious days to visiting my
mind, however briefly. Even if they don’t
agree. Especially if they don't agree.
. . . to everyone who sends me links to
things they think will interest me.
. . . to everyone who has encouraged me by
tweeting or telling me that they enjoyed reading the blog, and that the ideas I’ve
struggled to express are worth struggling to express.
. . . to everyone who has taken the
irrevocable step of actually buying one of my books as a result. You’ve made a middle-aged man very happy.
. . . to all my fellow bloggers who are
dedicated to the grand cause that conversation about ideas, with ideas, for ideas,
shall not perish from the Lib Dems.
Many congratulations!
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ReplyDeleteWhoo hoo! One of the lib Dems' really sound decisions ( unlike the nuclear one!) Many well deserved congratulations to a Master Blogger
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