Well what a rollercoaster of a few days, checking the Dorset Cereals website every few hours to see if I was still winning. I went straight from work on Tuesday to Walton Chasers Training at Walton High School where Cath had organised a night street orienteering event. When I left work I was winning comfortably some 60 votes ahead of my rival; Molly and the Princess, a blog about “Veggie talk, vintage finds, and tales of Viennese art”, who described stodge-blog on her recent posting as a “testosterone-fuelled blog of a MAMIL (middle-aged man in lycra)” – is 38 really middle aged, please tell me no, but it’s given more than a few laughs since.
After the race (see another posting soon, it was fab) I returned home to find that the Princess had caught me up. I tried some more desperate social networking including this time Twitter to try and get the vote up, but Molly and the Princess seemed to romp away, pulling in some 200 votes in the last couple of hours. I was tempted to put scruples to one side and use my professional knowledge and access to 100 PCs in work to get back in the game but decided that it was better to lose gracefully than resort to dirty tactics!
After the midnight reset of Vote numbers, stodge-blog votes have continued to come in for next months prize but there is no mention on the site of Novembers winners. So stodge-blog is now leading Decembers little blog awards with a great link on the front page of the Dorset Cereals site. I assume that it was won by Molly and the Princess (which is a Pashley Princess Bike), congratulations to her.
Thanks to everyone who voted.
If you’re middle aged at 38 I shudder to think what I’m classed as! Keep the blog going,its a good read!