It gives me great pleasure to announce what you have all suspected.
I am in fact of noble birth.
There is blue blood in my veins, letters after my name and red carpet under my feet at every event I attend.
And my title?
Lady Jo The Nimble Of Nether Wombleshire.
I am so proud.
Don’t worry, I won’t expect you to bow.
Revealing my honorable personage will not change me.
Well maybe just a little bit…
Bring me your finest cakes, and bring them now.
Hee hee I love this.
I nabbed it from RC or should I say, Most Noble and Honourable Julie the Scattered of Chortling Chesterton, and PixelPi, otherwise known as Entirely Miss Reverend Lady Pixel the Erudite of Studley Rodger.
(Hmmm, I wonder what Studley Rodger looks like?)
If you would also like a Peculiar Aristocratic Title then go here, it’s fabulous dwahlings.
I also nabbed this from RC.
(I am such a bad girl today.)
I was so excited that I turned out to be chocolate, the perfect blend of sweetness and seduction apparently.
I’m not sure if Mr B thinks I’m luscious and irresistible but you all do, right…?
Well, Barbara does anyway and she is an Ostrich of excellent taste.
I also got this from RC…
…but this was a gift, honest.
No more pillaging blog buddies today I promise.
Apparently the Breakout Blogger Award originated at bobborama dot com
This is how they describe it:
This award casts a spotlight on bloggers who are just beginning to draw lotsa attention — the equivalent of a song with a bullet on Billboard’s Top 100 chart. Lotsa good posts. Lotsa good buzz. These bloggers are going places in a hurry.
Now you all get to give the award to your own Break Out Bloggers … and then send them to this Awards Page for the instructions and code. (these are their instructions).
It’s so exciting.
Thanks your ladyship maam.
I always said RC was blog royalty.
And I get to pass this fab piece of bling on to:
Corey at Living and Loving Every Minute of it
Cami at Mommified Me who is rocking the blogosphere with her vlogs, (that’s video blogs), which are fabulous.
Bellevelma at Running With Books who is witty, wise and wonderful.
Troy at Not World Famous who is funny, irreverent and fabulous.
Walks Far Woman at Kissing the Dogwood for the serene and beautiful way she writes that makes people want to listen.
And the fabulous and newly pregnant Farmer’s Wife at Running in Wellies.
Am I not a generous and bountiful Lady blogger?
Ohh, and before I go, here are some fab pics of stunning Dartmouth.
Mr B, Miss E, Miss M and I ventured there last Wednesday and fell in love.
Isn’t it gorgeous?
Balamory/Tobermory ya boo sucks to you.
I could eat it
No really, I could.
I mean, this is where some of you came from and I never knew that.
What a beautiful place to leave on such a terrifying journey.
Walk past the memorial and over the cobbles and you get to this…
Yes it’s a tiny fort.
That’s Mr B and Miss M there to help with scale.
And you peer through one of the gun ports and you see this…
Then climb up the old stone steps and peer out over the ancient walls to see this,
and this…
We loved it soooo much we checked out the Estate Agents on the way back down.
We weren’t really thinking on moving, we were just kind of living the dream for a moment.
We decided to go for this one.
It’s a snip at £5000 000
($10 000 000)
Big sighhhhhh.
Dreams are good right?
September 30th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
I am:
Her Noble Excellency Leendaluu the Confused of Old Throcking in the Hole
And you know, I deserve every word of that title. Especially the Confused part.
September 30th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
And, for the record, I am black raspberry. Which I love–fresh, in pies, jams and ice cream. One of my friend brought me some delicious black raspberry preserves from the UK recently and I refuse to share.
September 30th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
I really just came over for a bit of a peek in on the world of Jo and to say Hi, imagine my surprise to find that I’ve won a lovely award and to find out that I TOO am of noble decent… from now on you may all call me: Her Most Noble Lady Cami the Winsome of Mabe Burnthouse
Cause that is me!
September 30th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Lady Jo the Nimble – How bountiful indeed.
Thank you your esteemness for this grandiose honour. I am content to remain lowlier than the hem of thy prestigious garments since I discovered my rise to pomp and circumstance entailed being forced to wear the ungainly title of Empress WalksFarWoman the Larger of Scragglebottom – besides I quite prefer the raunchy basque and daring necklines of my peasants clothing. (blushes demurely) 
September 30th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
I am vanilla!
September 30th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
I’m so glad I vistied your blog BEFORE you revealed your royal – ness . You won’t think I’m one of those sucky sycophants…cause I knew you back ‘then.’
We always check out the real estate when we go on holidays….and have fantasies…and wonder which of those multi-million dollar houses we should buy….
I love those colourful terrace-like houses!
September 30th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
wow – and why I waz here you waz there – too amazink!!
September 30th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
I LOVE your title. I must go get one at once. What a great holiday!
September 30th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Leendaluu, hee hee. I am also confused a lot of the time.
What is a back raspberry? Is it like a blackberry? I am intrigued. Must google it.
Ahhh, wow, I never knew these existed.
Cami, winsome? Never.
Hee hee Walks fa rwoman. I’m sure you look fab in your peasant garb oh lowly one.
Mrs Weasley, mmmm, vanilla. Yum.
Rebecca, you are right.
I will know my true friends. Hee hee.
September 30th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Yay, hi Novembrance.
Can’t wait to hear your noble title.
September 30th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
I always knew you were princess or queen of something. Now we have proof.
As always, every single award you get is totally deserved even if you do hang around with riff raff like myself.
And your pictures are breathtaking. Maybe we could all go in together on that little shack you fancied.
September 30th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Hi, I came over here to visit you from the Rotten Correspondent and decided to stay for awhile. As a matter of fact, I have bookmarked your page and added it to my list of favorites and I will be back every day.
I already have a title, but I have forgotten what it is now. I’ll have to find out what flavor I am, I hope I am chocolate, because that’s what I like best, although raspberry sounds good too.
I enjoy your style of writing, it is very nice and comfortable and upbeat. Glad to see you enjoyed your vacation so very much. Nice to meet you!
September 30th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Oh, i could eat it too. How lovely. Maybe that house has a neighboring one that I could buy?
September 30th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
It is I, Imperial Majesty Corey the Calm of Peevish St Victor! Heed me! LOL
That is killing me!
OH and I am ever so honored by the award….but girl…you took most of my blog roll…what am I to do? whom shall I pass this honor??? I must go searching.
tee hee Thanks!
October 1st, 2007 at 3:24 am
thank you my dear! I shall wear it with pride! Your holiday snaps are lovely. The fort is adorable, do you think I could get one for my yard?
October 1st, 2007 at 4:56 am
I’ll see you there in Dartmouth, Jo.
I love it too. Let’s get houses next door to each other. Studio annexe on the back for me and Mr B.
October 1st, 2007 at 4:59 am
Did you tell the kids it was Balamory? I would have done – and earned some totally fraudulent and undeserved parenting brownie points. I’m so naughty, me!
Welcome back, looks like you had a really nice time. Hoorah. Back to boot camp now. I’m cheesey sock flavour.
Mya x
October 1st, 2007 at 6:06 am
Wow! Thanks, Jo! Are you sure you’re not Santa Claus, giving out all these wonderful gifts?
October 1st, 2007 at 8:33 am
Beautiful, beautiful houses. I’m torn between a yellow and a turquoise one. Maybe it would be better to get two and connect them and then have royal visitors.
And by the way, I usually don’t speak about Studley Roger when Mr. Pi might be around. He and Roger don’t get along.
I’m with RC. Let’s all go in on the house. Except we’ll need a lot of us. Maybe more than 365 of us. I see problems with this scheme.
October 1st, 2007 at 8:59 am
RCahh thanks, I’m blushing now, well actually I have a serf who blushes for me, but you catch my drift right?
We should so go for that shack shouldn’t we.
I mean, we could tidy it up a bit, add on a few extra wings,
then it would be near perfect.
Hi Irene, thanks for all your lovely comments. I hope you’ll be chocolate. I was so excited as I love chocolate too. Mmmm yum.
Brillig, you’d be a fab next door neighbour, or you can join us in the big house, the more the merrier dwahling.
Corey, your imperial majesty, I am sure you have many subjects that would just die for a yummy award from you. And if they don’t like it, off with their heads. ;D
Dear Empress Wellies, I’m sure if you offered them a small sum you could have that fort. Or you could just sail in under cover of darkness, bung it in a wheel barrow, secure it on your poop deck and sail away.
I bet nobody would notice.
Napoleon, sounds fab. We must have a small garden for Audrey and the girls. Shall I start looking now??
Mya, I was a bit slow on that one, but Miss E, being 7 and already cynical would definitely not have gone along with it without proof. Even if I hired a cast of look-a-likes to follow us around singing the theme tune she’d be suspicious.
Belle, I might be Santa…
You never know.
Get down Rudolph.
Hmmm, good idea PixelPi, or we coud buy the whole row. You could make Mr Pi’s quarters at one end, and Studley Rodger’s in the middle.
It might work…
Also, it could solve the problem of 365 in one house.
Must think about this more, there has to be a way.
October 1st, 2007 at 11:22 am
Congratulations on the award Your Ladyship.
Love those pictures, I never knew Dartmouth was so lovely!
October 1st, 2007 at 11:28 am
Hi Jo, Dartmouth is my most favourite place in the world, I’d rather be there than anywhere, even to the point that we are on the list of all the local estate agents just in case a hovel comes up in our price range.
We’ve been going there for 30 years or more, it is just magic.
Thanks for the fab pictures. The last time we went there I was forced to do a post “Dartmouth Rocks” but at the time I didn’t know how to post pics. I so enjoyed yours.
Best wishes!
October 1st, 2007 at 12:00 pm
I’m either Lady Madame Kimberly the Bovine of Fiddlers Green, or Reverend Countess Kim the Ceaseless of Burton-le-Coggles or Lady Madame Kimmy the Erudite of Leighton Buzzard.
Dang, having split personality disorder sure can be irksome.
I loooove those pictures. I want to move too now.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Akela thanks, and neither did I. It blew us away and there wasn’t even any wind. (Sorry, too much cheese.)
Hi Swearing Mum, welcome. It’s so amazing I don’t know why I’ve never been there before. I will have to check out that post now.
Kimberly I think I love the first 2 best, though ‘bovine’ and ‘fiddlers’ in the same sentence sounds a bit rude.
Come and join our blog commune hon.
It will be fabulous.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Hi Jo – Her Excellency 21stcm the Subversive of Mousehole by Sea here…love this post. Looks like your ladyship had a fabulous time in Devon. Haven’t been down that way for ages…now I just want to see Dartmouth.
BTW, if you ever visit Mousehole in Cornwall, looks like you’d better look me up ;-D xxx
October 1st, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Your Excellency, I happened by the province of Mousehole only the other day. It is a fair place and if I’d known you were in residence I’d have sent over a brace of hares.
Get your flag up next time wench.
October 1st, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Start looking now. (Audrey has packed her little dog suitcase.)
October 1st, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Mine is “Countess Jenny the Antediluvian of Chalmondley Chumleyton”. Good fun! What amazing pictures.
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Napoleon if only.
Wouldn’t it be fabulous?
Hee hee, Countess Jenny, woud you care for a carafe of sherry?