Another lovely competition from Tesco Books blog

Tesco books have done it again - there is a lovely new "comment to win" competition on their blog. The prize is a hamper of craft goodies and a sgined copy of Kirstie Allsopp's new book Craft, which accompanies her TV series. There are signed copies of the book for two runners up, too.

To enter this competition, pop over to the Tesco Book blog http://booksblog.tesco.com/2011/10/win-a-signed-copy-of-kirstie-allsopps-craft-and-a-hamper-of-goodies/ and leave your favourite craft tip - it can be your own original one or one you have learned from somebody else.

The competition closes on November 4th.

NOTE The competition is being run on the Tesco books blog, not here, so please don't leave your comments here - much as I'd love to read your crafty tips, they won't be entered into the compeition!

Win a wonderful treat for a little girl!

Dolls' prams have a timeless appeal for little girls. And it isn't just the dolls who get wheeled around in them - teddy bears  and even pets get the treatment too. I used to love pushing my cat around the garden in my doll's  pram, and the cat seemed to enjoy it too. At least, he kept coming back for more!

Silver Cross have a beatuful range of dolls' prams, styled to match their well-known Heritage Collection of full sized prams. And now they are offering you the chance to win one. This beautiful pram, the Chatsworth, could be yours simply for answering a question on their Facebook page.

The pram is worth £300 - wouldn't that make a wonderful Christmas  present? And the competition closes at 3pm on November 11th.

I'd like to say "Good  luck" - but I'd like even more to win this for my own granddaughter!

Money Magpie

Created by author and finance expert Jasmine Birtles, Moneymagpie.com is a magazine-style website offering money-saving tips and notifying readers of the very latest offers on everything from meals out to beauty products. The site receives an average of well over 3,800 visits per day.

They have invited Grape vine readers to have a look around the site:

Here at Moneymagpie.com, we love competitions. We have a page dedicated purely to comping which is updated regularly, and our free weekly newsletter – which has 35,000 subscribers and counting – always features competitions, as does our popular Bargain Alert. We also like to use our Facebook and Twitter pages to alert our readers of the latest competitions and the best comping sites and magazines.

We would be delighted if you could alert your readers to these great features of our website. The links are as follows:

How to make money from competitions article: http://www.moneymagpie.com/article/810/how-to-make-money-from-competitions

Newsletter sign-up: http://www.moneymagpie.com/moneymagpie-newsletter-signup/

Bargain Alert sign-up: http://www.moneymagpie.com/free-bargain-alerts-subscription

Twitter: http://twitter.com/moneymagpie 

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/moneymagpie

Your chance to be in a TV quiz show!

Splash media would like to invite compers and  quizzers to apply to be on their new TV quiz show. They say "Far from your average tea-time quiz, we are looking for true intellectual heavyweights and general knowledge know-it-alls to take part in the show". Here are the details of how to apply.

Win a prize just by getting out of bed!

How easy does that sound? You don't even need to brush your hair!

The Best Bed Linen in the World and award winning hairdresser Karine Jackson are looking for The Best Bed Hair in the World.

The prizes are lovely:
WINNER – Overnight stay at The Grove and a Luxury Down Surround Pillow
FIRST RUNNER-UP – Haircut with Karine Jackson (Covent Garden) and Luxury Down Surround Pillow
SECOND RUNNER-UP – Luxury Down Surround Pillow and luxury pillow cases
THIRD RUNNER-UP - Hair products from Karine Jackson and luxury pillow cases

To enter, email a photograph of your "Bed hair" to bedhair@simplerpr.com  with your name, contact details and where you heard about the competition. It would be great if you could tell them you read about it on the Grape Vine blog!

You can read all about the competition, which closes on November 30th, along with the full terms and conditions,  here  - where there is also a link to their Facebook page where entries will be received as they come in.

And to get you thinking about your own entry, here is the picture I will be using for my own entry.

Another trip to Turkey

Note: This post is my entry for the Travelizer competition for a chance to win an £800 break to a European city. Full details of the competition, and how you can enter yourself, can be found at http://www.travelizer.co.uk/ - the competition closes on November 4th

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Long term readers of  this blog may recall that last year I was lucky enough to win a prize in  the Sunday Times's weekly "Where Was I?" competition. The holiday prize that week was a trip to the beautiful hotel Bordubet, and you can read about the prize trip here . I finished that post with the phrase "I'll be back" and, true to my word, I returned there  in September this year.

Last year I went with my friend Rosemary, but I knew my husband would  love the hotel, so this  year he and I went together. And we enjoyed it so much  that we have already booked to go again next year!

Bordubet (the name comes from the German, not Turkish, for "bird bed" and almost every building has a beautiful bird house on the wall) is a beautiful hotel in a very isolated position on the Bozburun Peninsula of  Turkey. There are no shops and bars nearby, no nightlife, no entertainment, just relaxing, beautiful gardens  and a small "beach club" accessed by boat or a path winding along the hillside.

Even when the hotel is full, there are only 72 guests, and with 40 staff to look after you, the standard  of service is extremely high but never obtrusive. We enjoyed lazy days and relaxing evenings, enjoying the almost-empty pool or taking the boat out to the beach club to swim in the sea. Delicious buffet style meals were served each evening among the sounds of crickets, frogs and the occasional duck-fight. The river winds through the grounds  beside the restaurant, and fish swim up to the tables to beg for food.

As well as  glorious lush gardens  in the main part of the hotel, the kitchen garden is also open to visitors, who are free to roam around and even pick fruit and veg and take them to the kitchen to be cooked for them.  Most of you know that my husband is a keen vegetable grower and loves to blog about food and gardening, so as you can imagine he was in his element! This bed of pumpkins was next to the hotel's tennis  and basketball courts, so we nicknamed it the "squash court"

We  came home feeling healthier and more relaxed than we had done for a very long time, and look forward to repeating the experience next year.

I must end with one more photograph - being the editor of Grape Vine,  I couldn't leave the hotel without a photo of.... a grape vine!

Win a Hawaii Five-O DVD box set

Hawaii Five-O was a very popular TV series in the 1970s and I have  a box set of series one to give away. And an added  bonus for compers - the set contains a competition for a holiday to Hawaii!

To enter, follow the instructions in the widget below, making sure you do exactly what the widget tells you to in each step. Competition  closes Friday 28th October.