The image above was supplied by Walter Baxter of Galashiels in The Scottish Borders. I commissioned a photograph of a laughing horse and Walter duly snapped this one on a hillside near North Berwick in the Lothian region of Scotland. It will form the design basis for Laughing Horse Awards widgets due to be distributed once again on the last day of the year.
Sponsored by The Yorkshire Pudding Company, The Laughing Horse Awards have become the most prestigious awards in the blogging calendar. Most readers of this blogpost will be aware of Laughing Horse's history - stretching way back into the mists of time.
Each year special blogging awards are distributed before the overall "Blogger of the Year" is announced. Previous winners are listed below. Several are still with us, blogging away in a dutiful manner while others have fallen by the wayside.
The Roll of Honour...
2008 – Arthur Clewley for “Arthur Clewley”
2009 – Daphne Franks for “My Dad’s a Communist”
2010 – John Gray for “Going Gently”
2011 – Ian Rhodes for “Shooting Parrots”
2012 – Kate Steeds for "The Last Visible Dog"
2013 – Tom Gowans for “A Hippo on the Lawn”
2014 – Meike Riley for “From My Mental Library”
2015 – Lee George for “Kitchen Connection”
2016 – Steve Reed for “Shadows and Light”
2017 - Keith Kline for "Hiawatha House"
2018 - Mary Moon for "Bless Our Hearts"
2019 - Jenny O'Hara for "Procrastinating Donkey"
2020 - Cro Magnon for "Magnon's Meanderings"
2021 - Andrew de Melbourne for "High Riser" (Now "From The High Rise")
These are the last days of 2022 and soon this challenging year will peter out. For those of us who inhabit Blogworld and gain pleasure, sustenance, interest and even friendship from it, it is good to look back and evaluate the journeys we have taken over the last twelve months. Often blogging and the reading of other people's blogs have proven to be welcome distractions from the woes of our planet.
From time to time, we all need encouragement and The Laughing Horse Awards seek to provide some of that precious commodity. Winners and The Overall Blogger of the Year will be announced on New Year's Eve.
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