Today is International Blog Day and Radio 5 Live is plugging it like mad. They want bloggers to recommend sites.

The aim is also to travel out of your normal comfort zone and explore some new sites. This is a great idea as I do think some blogs are a little clique.

This site tells you how to mark the day, and with 52.6 million blogs to check out, you should have lots of fun today. I shall be joining and and will report back later.

Here are my five recommendations from those I already know, though I enjoy all those mentioned on my blogroll:

I recommend Geoff Jones, who launched me into blogsphere, http://www.geoffjones.com/

Iain Dale, who gives a humorous and punchy review of political news straight from the hip, http://www.iaindale.blogspot.com/

PC Bloggs, a policewoman who gives a great grassroots account of life on the beat, http://pcbloggs.blogspot.com/

Neville Hobson, who is always one step ahead with social media, http://www.nevillehobson.com/

and Margot Wallstrom, if only more politicians could blog like her, though I would like to see a few more posts, http://weblog.jrc.ec.europa.eu/page/wallstrom/

Thanks to my long suffering husband Stephen who heard this on the radio and told me about it, even though last night he was so cross with his late dinner that he threatened to go to Tesco and get something to eat unless I stopped blogging. It’s tough being married to a blogger!