Happy New Year and best wishes for a healthy, prosperous and inventive 2010.
As the old year ends, I’ve established my own little awards, The Niki’s, to honour the best of 2009.
My categories are mostly related to creative endeavours, are arbitrarily chosen and listed in alphabetical order.
So, drum roll, please:
1-Top Technology of the Year: Podcasting
2-Top Book of the Year:
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
3-Top Cool Thing of the Year: the E-book
4-Top Food of the Year: my sister’s Microwavable Chocolate Fudge
5-Top Photo of the Year: Lounging Lions
by Eddie Polinsky
6-Top Plant of the Year: My funky Spectabilis bamboo
7-Top Radio Play of the Year: The Barchester Chronicles by Anthony Trollope (BBC Radio)
8-Top Song of the Year: Battlefield by Glynne Turner
9-Top Television Show of the Year: The Closer (James Duff: executive producer/creator/writer)
10-Top Word of the Year: Quillr® (online multimedia storytelling platform)
So…what are your Top Ten of 2009?


