By: Blonde Two
Despite our jokes on Twitter about “Two Blondes the Movie”, I am not sure that fame and fortune figure in our future. I have to say, I am not sorry about that at all, it must be quite a bore having people talking about what you are wearing and where you go out for dinner all of the time. Imagine the paparazzi trying to trail us across Dartmoor though – it would be funny to see them slip and slide in the bogs, mud splashing across their laces. We would probably take pity on them and share our Jelly Babies.
Although, there is a chance that I might be wrong about the fame thing – on Wednesday there was a parcel on the kitchen table when I got home. The Two Blondes had got their first fan mail. I was so excited that I have to confess to biting the brown paper to start off the opening process. Once open, I was thrilled to find a tube of smarties fastened to a rather large box of Jelly Babies – obviously this Blonde Fan knows what our favourite walking fodder is. Clearly though there is some disagreement as the legend “Smarties Rule, OK!” was written on the Jelly Babies box.
There was a secret message in Amateur Radio Q-Codes accompanying the Jelly Babies. I think that I understand it and have written my reply. See how you get on with the translation:
QSL From Blonde Two to Starfire
Date: 01.02.13 Time: Quite Late
Your Qth – A hill in Devon
My Qth – A sofa near Dartmoor
QSL Sent
73, 88
Well that was very exciting! I don’t think you need to feel threatened by the Smartie allegation! I can’t imagine Smarties being taken on the Great North Run like Jelly Babies are!
Smartie s are sofa fodder and do not engage in active sports.
I have a good friend who is a radio ham and he is not an active person and never travels too far away from
his radio so Smarties would probably suffice for his energy
requirements!
Jelly Babies rule!
probably
Belly Maybies (pregnancy scare)
Nelly Rabies (not a nice girl)
Telly Raybies (dangerous things)
Welly Ray–vies (for Welsh bogs)
Smelly ladies ( after falling in Dartmoor bogs )
Gelly daisies (After taking much needed shower)
Blonde 2 de Starfire
R ur 010213z //
QRK 5 QSA 5 //
TU BCNU GN AR
“Thank you, be seeing you, good night, Aunty Red?”
AR – end of transmission – but I like your version much better! Think I’ll use it next time I’m Morsing.
With apologies to Blonde One for whom this kind of rhyming rubbish is anathema (very wise.)
This one, dear raycharlesdavies, is just for you
It’s not for Blonde One or even Blonde Two.
Upon the subject of the Smartie,
According to the literati,
They have travelled far and wide
In a rucksack’s dark inside.
40 years have passed and more,
Since they walked on moor and tor,
From Yelverton to tiny Gidleigh
Where the wind blows wild and free.
They’ve kept a walker hale and hearty
Tramping through Ross and Cromarty,
Clambered every Lakeland Mountain
In the pocket of a jerkin,
Northward on the Pennine Way
Offered succour everyday.
Coast to Coast they travelled West,
Tucked into a pocket vest
(Seventeen days of twenty-one
Rain and mud but never sun.)
The Southern Upland Way they flitter
With a radio transmitter,
Slept in Beehive, barn and tent
Where the deer and badgers went
And then at last became Jurassic –
This one is a Midlands classic –
Over farm fields systematic
With bulls and stallions dilemmatic.
Now on Devon cliffs they ramble
Where the weather is such a gamble
But the pounding of the sea
On the pebble shore will be
Just the place for illuminati
To gather for a Smartie party.
It’s past my bedtime. G’night all.
A most excellent “Ode to a Smartie” which have all been eaten by the way.