Thank you, June Hur, for tagging me in the One Lovely Blog Award blog chase. I’m to write seven lovely things about me and tag 15 further blogs that I consider lovely.
What is the One Lovely Blog Award?
So I went and looked up this thing, and found that it started as a way to encourage new blog authors. Thanks again, June. And Miss Bluestocking (subtitle ‘Inside a Writer’s Mind) is, indeed, a lovely blog. And – with not quite five weeks on the web – this is, indeed, a brand new blog.
Here are the rules.
Rules:
- Share 7 Lovely Facts about myself (I’m sharing 7 curious facts – you can decide whether they’re lovely or not).
- Link to 15 blogs (or as many as possible) that I enjoy reading.
- Nominate the authors of those 15 blogs to participate and do the same, linking back to the original Lovely blog (that’s me, in this case).
7 curious things about me
My Dad was a Russian spy
In the early 60s, at the height of the Cold War, my father was a primary school teacher (elementary, to you US folk) in a outlying suburb of Wellington, New Zealand’s capital city. He had majored in Geography, and he hit upon the idea of visiting all the embassies and trade commissions in Wellington to ask for brochures and other resources for his class.
When Dad arrived at the Soviet Union’s Legation, he was greeted with open arms, all the resources he could possibly want, and a veiled suggestion that more valuable gifts, and even money, might be available if he was willing to share with the nice Russian gentleman anything he might know about New Zealand’s defence force or external relations.
Somewhat dazed, he went home and told my mum that he’d been invited to be a Russian spy.
I just love what happened next. Only in sleepy little New Zealand!