By: Blonde Two
I have to confess, dear Blondees and Blondettes that I am a tad emotional as I write this blog post. It is my penultimate of 2013. My final one will be our Blonde Review of the Year and will mark success in my New Year’s resolution to write a post for every day of 2013. We are thrilled to tell you some numbers – 40,000 views of our blog, 2,000 comments and 1,600 Twitter followers. I have no idea if these are good numbers or not – but we are very pleased with them.
The picture above is a Blonde Post – it isn’t on the map and only a few people know how to find it. Let’s imagine, for a moment, that it is a goal post. I will be honest with you now and admit, that I didn’t expect to reach this goal. There has been much juggling of time and expedition dates going on, I have bought a new laptop, I have grunted at my children, I have replaced the smart phone that I dropped down the loo, I have even typed on the loo! One thing is for sure though, every minute, every key stroke has been worth it. We Two Blondes have had an amazing year, made even more amazing by being able to share it with you. There can be no doubt that we have both persuaded ourselves do more walking and adventuring than usual in order to make sure that we provide you with plenty of “blog fodder”.
The best thing, though, has been all of you Blondees and Blondettes. You have read, and commented and encouraged all year and we really do feel like we have made some new friends. Please forgive me if I miss you off this list but thank you to; the Gatekeeper, the Welsh One, the Rescuers, The Stranger, Aunty Starfire, Blonde Mum, The Preservers, The Active One, the Intellectual Ones, the Funny Ones, the Dukes of Edinburgh, the Serious Ones, the Bauble Donators, the Jelly Baby Placers, the Kiwis … I could go on but you will stop reading and I really need to say thank you to our families for putting up with our absences this year. Mr Blond One, Little-Miss-Blonde, Little-Mister-Blond, Mr Blond Two, Bearded-Blond, Six-Foot-Blond and Not-At-All-Blonde … you are great and we are grateful!
We are still not decided what will happen to Two Blondes in 2014. But one thing is for sure, tomorrow I am going to have a day off and probably go for a walk!
Got to meet some time just to tweet yer photo and say hello
If you can take secret identity photos then absolutely!
Well done and thank you for all the entertainment throughout the year! You have made us do silly things with jelly babies, eat more jelly babies, get stuck in bogs, have insatiable desire to go for a walk at every opportunity, learnt new and interesting words, compose poems, think of Blonde songs, check our sanity and generally had lots of fun!
I believe you will be telling us about your walk tomorrow! You won’t be able to resist telling us and we will be dieing to know what you get up to!
Have fun down there in Blonde world!
Keep walking our Dartmoor Diva’s!
I love the fact that we have made you check your sanity! I hope too, that it is where you want it!
Seriously Ray – you don’t know how much your comments and jokes have kept us going. I am fairly sure that you are right about tomorrow although I have promised Mr B2 that I won’t. Maybe from the loo … a different kind of bog blog!
FORCE: Strength or energy exerted or brought to bear; active power; moral or mental strength; capacity to persuade or convince.
What have these definitions in common? Invisibility.
Why are these definitions relevant? They help describe a genus to which the blog Two Blondes Walking belongs.
What conclusions? Verb. sap.
Speak English you pretentious bastard! If it ain’t bust, don’t fix it.
It has been an incredible year. I repeat B2’s thanks to every one of you that has helped make it so good!
It has indeed been a great year following you both on your escapades on Dartmoor and beyond! It definitely helped me through my months of being sofa bound to at least pretend I was out and about enjoying the ever wonderful Dartmoor!
Please carry on-since being back at work, reading the blog has been my lunchtime highlight-at least the lunchtimes I find a second to sit still for a moment or two!
In whatever form the two blondes carry on in 2014 I know you will be out there and now being back to near full mobility I’m sure our paths will cross somewhere! Maybe I’ll even make it out for a blonde bimble one day!
Don’t you dare give up now! It has been great fun following you throughout the year, both in work and personal capacities. I wish I was as successful with my New Year resolutions!
Two Blondes will carry on but it will be good to be allowed to take a day off once in a while 🙂
Loved every minute of it – and all the comments, and assigning mad faces to the unknown writers – and slithering about in the mud mentally (not difficult – I do a lot of that) – and seeing your young D of Es and Ten torsers in a wholely different light (and sometimes by torchlight, moonlight, starlight) – magic! PLEASE don’t give up altogether!
We will keep going – I can’t imagine stopping but a day off now and again will be lovely and make things a bit easier on camp! Thanks for all of your lovely comments!