Hardly we had thanked Nerissa as is proper for the multiple awards which he had awarded us (twice !) that our friend Texas let us know that it had chosen us to receive the Favourite Things Award (created by Nerissa): what a honor !
Thank you so much to have thought of us !

The rules to accepting this award are :

1. Thank the blogger for giving you this award and give a link to his blog
2. Post the award on to your blog
3. Name six of your favorite things
4. Pass it on to as many bloggers as you want.

Then, as we are two, we EACH are going to name our six favorite things :

We are glad to transmit this award in our turn to Newton, Pierre et Ashton from Sometimes, Cats Herd You, to Pikku Punapippuri, and to Sneakers and Elvira from The Opinionated Pussycat.

Just after this pleasant surprise, it is Playfull Kitty who also awarded us a prize ; we are not very sure to know which one we received, but in every case, that pleased us all the more as Playful Kitty is a quite new friend met during the Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop of BlogPaws on January 8th.

Finally, at the same moment, Hisia gave us the Share The Love, Share The Box Award ; we had just received it, but that pleased us all the same really !

2014 started under the best auspices : the very first piece of news of the year is that we received not one, not two, but THREE awards for our blog !

Particular fact, these three awards were awarded to us all by our friend Nerissa who writes the extraordinary blog Nerissa’s  Life. We could hardly believe our eyes by reading his article : thank you, a big thank you from the bottom of our heart Nissy ! Claire promised to let us reach more often the computer this year and to help us to develop the blog : these three awards will undoubtedly contribute to stimulate her.

Here they are in order – drum roll – :

The Cracking Crispmouse Bloggywog Award : it is a creation of Pillster of the blog Catnip Capers (hello Pillster, nice to meet you ! ). It is just gorgeous, and we adore the values which it promotes. Pillster specifies that it is a seasonal distinction, we are thus going to wait till December, 2014 to pass it on in our turn.

Le Share The Box, Share The Love Award was created by our pal Texas on the same date as the famous American Boxing Day. By accepting this award, we make a commitment to follow the following rules :

1. Thank the blogger who awarded you the award.
2. Post the award on your blog.
3. Share the award with five bloggers and let them know they have received it.
4. Go find a box and have fun with it.  Rule number four is optional but highly recommended.

We thus pass on with pride The Share The Box, Share The Love Award to….

• Mr Bumpy
• Colibri et Eowin
• Da Tabbies O Trout Towne
• Smokey, Tanner and Ollie from Four Crazy Cats
• Hannah and Lucy from My Blogoffurry Creatures

The Blog Of The Year 2013 Award, created by The Thought Palette, is particular : it is progressive, because we can gain stars following the number of times when the award is awarded to us. As any distinction which respects itself, there are rules to be followed :

1. Select the blog(s) you think deserve the “Blog of the Year 2013” Award
2. Write a blog post and tell us about the blog(s) you have chosen – there are no minimum or maximum number of blogs required – and ‘present’ the blog(s) with their award.
3. Let the blog(s) that you have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the instructions with them – (please don’t alter the instructions or the badges ! )
4. Come over and say hello to the originator of the “Blog of the Year 2013″Award via this link – http://thethoughtpalette.co.uk/blog-awards-2/blog-of-the-year-2013-award/
5. You can now also join the “Blog of the Year” Award Facebook page – click the link here https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlogoftheYear/ and share your blog posts with an even wider audience.
6. And as a winner of the award – please add a link back to the blog that presented you with the award – and then proudly display the award on your blog … and start collecting stars…

We are happy to give the “Blog of the Year 2013” Award to….

• Timmy, Toby, Buddy, Rumpy, Fitz, Buttons and Einstein from Timmy Tomcat
• Eirwena from Journal d’un chat : les aventures d’Eirwena

Concatulations to all the prize-winners !

We are very honored to have been chosen by Eirwena to receive a new distinction : the Dragon’s Loyalty Award.

This award is the combination of the “Versatile Blogger Award” and of the “Very Inspiring Blogger Award”. There are of course some rules to be respected when we receive it, then let’s go :

• Post the logo of the award on our blog :
  Done !
• Announce that we were nominated in an article, and make a link towards the one who awarded it to us :
  Done !
• Nominate in our turn 15 blogs for this distinction :
  Not really done…
  – Mr Bumpy Cat, who discovers at present a new kind of creature
  – The Poupounette Gang, the champions of the cuddles inter-species
  – What a difficult choice ! The other blogs of which we thought have already received this distinction ; we are going to take a few weeks to think about other beneficiaries, but if you have not received it yet and if we visit you regularly, make it know us!
• let them know that they were nominated and makes a link on their blog :
  Done !

Write 7 interesting things about us :

1. Zorro always wriggles in the feet of the humans by humming when he arrives, preventing them totally from moving and from doing something other than pet him
2. Loupi often hides his snout and the eyes with one or two paws when he sleeps
3. Zorro sleeps in impossible positions what makes say to Claire that he has to miss him vertebras.
4. Loupi brings regularly a prey to Claire in present (while Zorro does not hunt).
5. Although he seems black with a white tie, Zorro is in fact very dark brown and has havana reflections in the sun.
6. Loupi adores watching the hens attending to their activities in the henhouse.
7. After one year, Loupi cannot always refrain from blowing Zorro, but Zorro messes it completely