I was a little underwhelmed by the nominees for the 2006 Australian Blog Awards, mainly because it was pretty much the same old A-List bloggers (with *most* of my faves absent¹). Last year I found some fantastic and diverse new reads (many of whom feature in the sidebar over there —> ) .

I was lucky enough to find Grab Your Fork, which is a fab read, but not much else new that thrilled me to bits.

So I headed to distant climes to the BoBs, where I first came across the utterly brilliant Manolo and have once again found fabulousness – amazingly under the guise of mommy blogs (which ordinarily I wouldn’t go within 29 clicks of).

You must read Grace – who is indeed super-fantastic.

And big yellow house – who is also most super-fantastic.

I’m on the way to filling all that lazing on the couch² time I now have thanks to my supporting local small business!

And a fond farewell to the wonderful 42 short, James is the coolest librarian ever, who introduced me to the delights of Nick, Nora and Asta, who is moving on to a more minimalist style blog. I’ll still be reading avidly, but will miss the vignettes into librarian life.

¹some weren’t missing though! Yay for elsewhere and flashman who both totally rock my socks.
note to self: next year actually nominate faves
² Yes, I suppose I could actually do something useful rather than sitting on the couch, but really, how likely is that?