By: Blonde Two
Just when the life of two outdoor Blondes was getting quite exciting enough, with press releases, revealed identities, book signings and the like; we get an email telling us that we have been nominated for another blogging award.
This time, it is the Trespass Blog Awards and we have been chosen because our blog is a “quality” one! The category is “walking and hiking” which is making me regret my recent posts about soup and Christmas trees. In fact, looking back at the last two months, a Blondee or Blondette might be forgiven for thinking that we Blondes had given up walking and gone a bit “girly”.
The big question here is, “Can a Bimbling Blonde Blog that occasionally turns a bit girly, stand up against Mountain Munching Men, when the blogging chips are down?” (That has so many words, it actually is a big question!) I like reading all kinds of blogs – it is a bit like meeting all kinds of people but you don’t have to buy them a beer or offer them a lift home. There is a really interesting collection in these awards and I shall be busy reading.
Only time will tell, we didn’t win last time but with your voting power, maybe we will this time. Click here to VOTE BLONDE and thank you very much!
‘Tis done. Good luck.
I will be interested to see if anybody gets all your bauble locations. I reckon even if I had local knowledge they would be fiendishly difficult, although I do notice some strong clues which would help in some of them if you are familiar with territory
Thank you very much!
I know that there are some very keen people working on the bauble clues. You will, I predict, be able to guess one of them … but I shall say no more! I had intended to make some “out of area” clues for non-Dartmoor people who wanted to join in but I ran out of time. It has been great fun doing the bauble hunt but has meant that, although Not-at-all-Blonde have been all over Dartmoor, I haven’t been able to write blog posts about our trips for fear of giving the bauble game away.
Sorted!
JJ
Thank you kindly 🙂
Big congrats on yet another nomination! It’s all abit like the BAFTA, Oscars time of year in the Outdoors World – far more interesting as far as I’m concerned!!!!!
Oh, the baubles are hard, even Mr Dartmoor Dad is struggling with some!!!!
I feel that my goal has been achieved if your Dad is struggling! It does feel a bit like awards time, no red carpet yet but you will never guess what is happening on Tuesday!!!
I won’t!!!! What is happening on Tuesday????
I’ll tell you … on Tuesday!! x
I too am glad you have been nominated for another gong (or bauble, perhaps) : I think you were bounced out of the other by commercially organised campaigning – I found the winner’s blog and read a few of the more recent ones : utterly boring half-literate self-congratulatory trivia overwhelmed with vacuous obviously-paid-for pseudo-systematic puffs for trade products which, assuming the usual practice, would probably have been supplied to the blogger on a praise us and you get if free or a special rate basis. Worthless, and never read again. Yours is so superior in genuine interest, literary merit and news of socially useful activities that it deserves not only to win but have a category all of its own.
And I am not being paid for this comment.
Thank you Gimmer. It is exciting being nominated. The thing about blogging is that it is diary writing made public, you can’t write a diary about somebody else (unless you invented Adrian Mole) so a blog is a personal thing.
Horses for courses I say, but, of course, we would love to win!
Well I tried, honest I did. But I was required to sign up for Facebook which is like admitting to be illiterate, or goitrous or both. My adviser has suggested I do Twitter or Tweet to publicise Out Of Arizona but, do you know, I think I’d prefer to walk down New Bond Street trouserless. Please forgive me.
Forgiven – there is a presumption, I think that everyone is connected via Twitter or Facebook these days.
That said, your adviser is probably right!