Sunday 20 April 2008

Well, after the excitement of the test post (don't you just love them?) I suppose I really ought to post something REAL.

My name is Jane Willis and I am a comper. Yes, it is an addiction - as you probably already know if you are reading this. I entered (and won) my first comp when I was three years old - I'm not saying exactly when that was, but it was before the days of colour TV. But I didn't become hooked until the mid 1980s.

Now I am so addicted that I publish my own small-press magazine for compers, The Competition Grape Vine. Originally produced by John Lock, I took over from him when he retired. I also write articles for the magazine Prize Draw Winner, and am a member of the London Competitors Club and several online comping groups and forums. So competitions are a HUGE part of my life, although I am also passionate about cooking and papercrafts.

I'm very new to blogging, as you can probably tell by the appearance of the blog so far, but I am keen to learn and hopefully it will soon start to look like a "real" blog! The blog is going to be much more personal than the Grape Vine website, so you will read a bit more about me and my own comping, my struggles to find entry forms, despair when the postman walks past yet again and, hopefully, the prizes I win.

But there will also be general comping chat which I hope will be of interest to all, as well as some messages intended mainly for Grape Vine readers. Of course I won't be posting anything here which subscribers get in their magazines - that wouldn't be fair on subscribers - but you'll find out here when the latest issue of the magazine is in the post, what date the mid-month update is sent out, and whether there are any amendments or last minute hitches, so do keep dropping in.

And please leave me your comments - I look forward to hearing from you.

11 comments :

  1. Thank you, Jane.

    As a GV subscriber I'll look forward to this with great interest.

    PW x

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  2. Hi Jane,

    I didnt know you did Grapevine LOL!!

    You forgot to mention when post van parks outside your house and goes to the neighbours... Am I the only one who wants to kick the neighboiur, and the the psotie!

    Good Luck with your blog, I would never know what to to say in them lol tho i cna waffle fgor England i suppose!

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  3. Magz, we share a drive with our next door neighbours and the post van drives right on to it and parks right outside my kitchen window, so I always see it arrive and get really disappointed when the driver gets out and goes next door.

    Jane

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  4. Worst still when the post van man arrives on the door step with a parcel, not for me but for the bloke next - yet again This happens most weeks and drives me crackers - he never bothers to ask wether it would be Ok for me to look after this parcels if they arrive while he is out, he just assumes I am going to be around.
    And the parcels are not even very exciting ones, once it was a watch strap from the US, how uninteresting is that :(

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  5. A watch strap is only interesting if he WON it!

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  6. Hello Missy!
    Good luck with your new blog!
    Hope the prizes keep rolling in!

    Don't forget a lucky elf is always near....

    Kevoonie
    x

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  7. Hi Jane,

    Looks pretty good.

    At least you didn't bring down your site when setting up the blog like someone I can mention.

    Oh, that was me!

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  8. Well you've made a start and it sounds good.
    Look forward to reading about your news and prizes.
    Hope you don't mind my asking a question but what does LOL mean?
    Good Luck

    Betty

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  9. LOL means Laughing Out Loud. Another you might come across is ROFL which means Rolling On the Floor Laughing

    Jane

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  10. Always thought LOL was Lots of Love. Think I put this comment in the wrong place first, which explains why it's from
    Slowcoach

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  11. Welcome to blogging Jane. Mine is very focussed on my life in Tupperware, but I enjoy doing it.

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