It’s a telling sign of the times: Vivh is all-consumed by Chelsea, and rubbing shoulders with all the famous gardening types. I have retreated into a winter fug, taking only the most occasional trip into the garden and scuttling back in after about 5 minutes.
And as a result, we both seem to have missed the most exciting news: We were nominated for, and are runners up in the most prestigious gardening awards on the web. For reals. The Fork’N Monkey awards, surely the most venerable gongs for those who like to grub about, were announced this week, and Brixton Broads was nominated in the All Around the World category for non-UK, non-US blogs. We didn’t win (congrats to Yolanda at Bliss) but we’re runners up. And that’s pretty rad. And we’re very proud to be rubbing shoulders with such famous garden grubbers.
We’re convinced that if there was a special award for developing nations, like a garden blog version of the Millennium Development Goals, we’d have it in the bag (along with some chickens, madumbies, spinach and the odd renegade Health Minister).
So many thanks to all who voted for us in the complicated secret ballots. In South Africa it takes at least a week for us to get election results out, and we don’t always agree on said results, so we’re very chuffed that this was all so democratic, simple and easy and we didn’t have to make any impossible to fulfill promises to voters.
You know this is worth thinking about. Along with the handful in South Africa, there’s a garden blog in India, another in Egypt and one in Kenya, I think. I wonder if there are any in South America?