What do you REALLY think of Jeremy Clarkson?

He's the Marmite Man  - you either love him or hate him Or do you?  Everyone has their own views on Jeremy Clarkson, not all of them charitable.

Experience Mad would like to know just what you DO think of him, and in return for completing their very short survey they are giving you the chance to win a driving experience in a Ferrari 360, Aston Martin DB9 or V8 Vantage, Lamborghini Gallardo and Porsche 911.

To give your opinion and enter the draw, pop over to www.experiencemad.co.uk/competition. The survey closes at the end of November  so that the results will be out in time for the Top Gear Christmas Special.

AN EARLY CHRISTMAS TREAT FOR MUMS AND DADS! WIN Christmas Gifts for your family, your friends and YOU!

www.SupportiveBusinessMums.co.uk has put together a fabulous online Christmas Gift Guide complete with ideal Christmas Gift Ideas for all the family, reviews and recommendations, great small gift business features and best of all... Christmas Gift Give Aways with gifts up to £100 each plus exclusive offers and discount codes!

Supportive Business Mums was founded by Ces Loftus, a designer, brand buzz creator and work from home mum. Ces says : "Christmas Shopping can be stressful as well as time consuming and costly. I have put together a great selection of ideal gift ideas, all from small businesses as opposed to the high street and offering some great discounts and special offers too. We have some awesome prizes up for grabs and all you have to do is visit the online features, click through to the sites you are interested in, then comment on the Christmas Guide Blog to say which products are on your Christmas Wish List! You double your chances of winning by sharing the Gift Guide page on twitter and facebook. An early Christmas treat ready to make your life easier and save you some money!"

Do you want to win a gorgeous gift for yourself and have gifts for family and friends sorted too?

Quick, get over to http://www.supportivebusinessmums.co.uk/christmas-gift-guide/ there are so many fabulous gifts including, clothes, shoes, bags, jewellery, bath and beauty products, pamper products, candles and homewares, art, personalised gifts, cards and paper, books, novelties, stocking fillers and toys to be won!

If you have a small business selling products suitable for Christmas Gifts and would like a free feature on their guide then contact Ces Loftus by email at ces@creativelyminded.co.uk

NOW GO and WIN yourself something fabulous! Good Luck Everyone!

http://www.supportivebusinessmums.co.uk/christmas-gift-guide/

Do you know Britain's luckiest person?

Do you know Britain's luckiest person? Or maybe you feel YOU deserve that description? A journalist called James Tegerdine is looking for someone who fits that description, or someone who makes a living out of winning competitions, for a story which would be published in newspapers and other publications all over the world.

If you would be interested in letting him interview you, or know somebody else who might (but please get their permission first!) please get in touch with him at James@catersnews.com - and tell him that you were sent by Jane Willis of Grape Vine so he knows right away which feature you are talking about.

Jane

Some competitions that just missed Grape Vine

Printing deadlines being what they are, occasionally a new competition appears after Grape Vine has gone out, yet closes too soon to be included in the update.

Here are two that did that this month.

The first was found in Asda, a small tear-off pad  by tins of pre-mixed Southern Comfort. The leaflet directs you to www.fb.com/southerncomfortuk  where you will find the instant win promotion; play the game for a chance to win one of 100 sets of 4 tickets to the Juke Joint party on November 17th. The site says there is also an instant win promotion connected with free voodoo hats given out when you buy a Southern Comfort in participating pubs.  Both close November 14th.

The second is at Sainsburys. Swipe your Nectar card when buying any of the following:
- All Coke, Powerade and Glaceau Vitamin Water drinks
- All Cadbury 120g, 140g and 230g bars
- All P&G products including Pampers, Head &Shoulders, Gillette and Fairy
- All Heineken lager
- Selected fresh fruit and vegetables.
to be automatically entered into a draw to win one of 1,500 family tickets to the Paralympic Games. You will get one entry for each product you buy, but can only win one prize per Nectar card. This closes 15 November.

Hand made Thursday - a wedding card

This weekend I am going to the wedding of the daughter of two of my oldest friends. We've known Philippa since she was a tiny tot - not right since her birth, as we lived overseas for the first year of her life. But we are practically courtesy Aunt and Uncle to her. So I wanted to make her a really special wedding card. And as almost always when a very special, keepsake card is what I want to produce, the Bookatrix embossing board was called into action.

This time I cut one of the pages twice, once in card and once in acetate, then cut out the centre of the card one to reveal the acetate windows below and the patterned paper (won in a Twitter competition!) in the layer below. The windows  were finished with peel offs and a stand made from matching patterned paper. The little rosebuds finishing the corners look flat in the photo but in fact are quite deep. They came from a Hot Off The Press kit.

I neede to make sure it didn't get damaged in the post so I made a matching box.

This post is for the Handmade Thursday linky at White Lily Green

Win a lovely treat for Peppa Pig fans

The latest competition on the Tesco books blog is  for one of 5 Peppa Pig bundles. They include a copy of Peppa Pig Time for a Story, Peppa Pig Pirate Island Sound Book and the Peppa Pig 'International Day' DVD.

To enter, simply pop over to the blog post here   and  tell them which animal you would like to be, if you could, and why. You can get extra entries by asking your children which animals they would like to be too. The competition closes on Friday 18th November.

And here is my granddaughter Lara, on a day trip to Peppa Pig world, wearing her favourite hat - a Peppa Pig one of course!

Win six months subscription to Grape Vine

Do you know that the Grape Vine website has its own monthly competition, with a six months  subscription to be won every month?

Last month, there  were 383 entries, but 66 of these were disqualified for not following the instructions. So make sure you read carefully and do what it says, not what you THINK it says. The task was set up to trick spammers, not humans, but it's surprising how many humans are caught out too!

Multiple entrants had their first entry allowed, but subsequent ones were disqualified.

To enter, just pop over to this page  and fill in the form. This month's  competition closes on November 30th.

While you are there, why not request a FREE sample copy of Grape  Vine? Anyone who has never  had a copy before can request a free copy  - but hurry! Stocks of the November issue are already limited!