And into the FIFTH Year for Eat Like a Girl! Help Me Celebrate…
For the third year running I completely forgot about my blog birthday. The 4th birthday has passed and I am now in YEAR FIVE! Crazy, isn’t it? I should have baked a cake. For now we will have to settle for my crappy improvised graphic above.
What a rollercoaster ride it has been! This last year especially. I took the jump and left my job, having left once before to do the market, and returning to the workplace for 3 days per week following that while I worked out my book proposal and all that jazz. So, I am now working full time as a food writer. Did I just write that?
I have written my first book, a cookbook called Comfort & Spice for Quadrille. Quadrille are one of my favourite publishers, how thrilling! It has gone to print and will be in the shops in September. I do hope you all like it as much as I do.
Very excitingly, I was shortlisted for the Observer Food Monthly Blog Award last October. Sadly, I didn’t win. This might be because I didn’t ask anyone to vote for me at all, which was pretty foolish of me. It didn’t seem right to canvas for your votes, but that was really silly as that is how these things work, isn’t it? I do appreciate that to be shortlisted without asking was an amazing achievement and I am really grateful for that – thank you.
Which brings me neatly to: the voting has started for this years OFM Awards and I would be thrilled if you thought that this little space was good enough for a vote. It takes little time, you can do it online, and really EVERY VOTE COUNTS. I would be so delighted and appreciative of each and every one. Not to overstate it, but to be shortlisted again would make my year.
To vote, just go to the voting form and put in your details and in the food blog section vote Eat Like a Girl / http://www.eatlikeagirl.com. Other categories would love your support too if you had favourites there.
Vote in the OFM Awards here: http://www.easyanswer.net/observer/default2.asp
Thank you :) x
Into your 5th year? Blimey, there’s dedication for you. Happy blog birthday!
Dedication? Madness? Who knows but I am still enjoying it :)
A half decade! Keep up the good work x
Thanks lady! x
Crap! 5 years is forever. Im coming up on 7 months since my first actual post and was feeling pretty good about that. You give me something to aim for and a site to look up to!!!
7 months is an achievement too! :) Thanks for your comment.
Happy Blog Birthday, Niamh!
Thanks so much, Aoife!
Happy blog birthday Niamh – always a good excuse for cake!
Thanks Cara! Lets have some in Canada next week :)
Happy Blog Birthday! Great effort to keep going for so long.
Thanks lovely! x
Many happy returns! What an achievement. Your blog always brightens my day so keep up the inspirational work. Looking forward to the book release in Sept! Xx
Thanks Liz. That is so very lovely of you to say. x
Cake is good but maybe you may need something to go with it. I say a glass (or two) of some bubbly when we next meet. Happy blogday : )
There shall be bubbly! :) Thanks Ailbhe.
Congrats on the blog birthday! Doesn’t time fly?!
Thanks Kathryn! It really does :)
Many happy returns and many many more to come. I recently discovered you via Twitter and you are one of my best discovery! You are an outstanding Blogger and you certainly deserve to not only be nominated but to clinch the Award! Cheers!!
Thanks so much! That is so very lovely of you to say.
Congrats! thats a whole load of great food, right there!
Very inspiring as a new blogger to read about a blog entering its 5th year so successfully! Congratulations!
Hannah @ LovetoDine
http://lovetodine.wordpress.com
Congratulations, Niamh – you make me ashamed, must update my blog (it’s been almost a year, ho-hum). Anyway – have voted for you! Happy Blog Birthday!! :0)