Can you imagine this?? I have not yet accepted or acknowledged awards conferred on me last year!! I cannot believe this!! 😦 How remiss of me. My profuse apologies to you Deeps and IHM. I have been holidaying with a vengeance. Though blogs were never out of my mind while doing so and I kept popping in to read and also post a couple of them, I put off the award accepting post for a later date. So here I am finally, suitably chagrined, but humbled and terribly honored to receive the award, the same one, from both of you. By the way, IHM has given the award for my take on feminism.

Here it is,

Este Blog investe e acrediita na…Proximidade!

This award is given to a blog that invests and believes in PROXIMITY – nearness in space, time and relationships! These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind of bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers! Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.

Thank you Deeps. Thank you IHM

And I pass the award on to:

Roopa

Ganga

Rekha

Gulshan

Bob

Usha (I know you have already got this one, but this award is just cut out for you!)