There are two new competitions at Your Holiday TV - you'll find the link to them at the top of the page.
The first is to win a professional laptop backpack made by Peli and the second to win one of two sets of family tickets to Legoland, Windsor. For both of them, don't forget to include your answer AND address in the answer box!
You can enter each competition once and your entries need to be in by March 31st
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Sunday, 24 February 2013
Win some beautiful bakeware
Cakey Boi is giving away a beautiful set of Great British Bakeware - baking tins in a pretty floral design that would really add a touch of magic to your cooking.
Enter over at the Cakey Boi blog - you have until March 18th to enter, and can get extra entries for daily tweets
Enter over at the Cakey Boi blog - you have until March 18th to enter, and can get extra entries for daily tweets
Win personalised wine for Mother's Day
Mother's day is coming soon - it's on March 10th in the UK - and Spotty Spoon, who specialise in creating personalised wine labels, are giving you the chance to win a personalised bottle of Jacobs Creek Reserve Shiraz or Brown Brothers Chenin Blanc for Mother's Day with your own worded label on the bottle, packed in a presentation tube and delivered in time for the big day.
All you need to do is to like their page and this post on Facebook by the closing date of March 4th
All you need to do is to like their page and this post on Facebook by the closing date of March 4th
Saturday, 23 February 2013
Have a blog? Win a Kindle Fire HD
Wooden Blinds Direct are looking for the worst window views in the world. And one lucky blogger can win a Kindle Fire HD by writing about their own worst view, It may be the view from a window at home now or one you've had to live with in the past.
To enter, write about it on your blog - a picture would be great, but a written description that sums it up would be just as good. Make sure you follow the instructions on their competition page and complete your entry by April 12th.
I have this lovely view so I won't be able to enter!
To enter, write about it on your blog - a picture would be great, but a written description that sums it up would be just as good. Make sure you follow the instructions on their competition page and complete your entry by April 12th.
I have this lovely view so I won't be able to enter!
Why not go to a comping day?
Here is the information about the day. If you would like an application form, please email me with the subject "Penge Comping Day" and i will attach one to my reply.
Penge competitions day will cost £30 per person and be held at Penge East Community Centre, (Car park of Penge East Station) Station Road Penge London SE20 7BE. Car parking is free on Sundays and there are lots of good and easy transport ways to get there. There will be tea and coffee available throughout the day and a buffet lunch will be provided.
PENGE COMPETITIONS DAY
12TH MAY 2013
At
PENGE EAST COMMUNITY CENTRE
STATION ROAD PENGE SE20 7BE
10am – 5pm
Doors open 9.30am
The nearest stations are Penge East and Penge West. Buses are 75, 194, 176, 227 for better details go to www.TFL.gov.uk.
The day will start at 10am but doors will open at 9.30.
There will be a range of competitions and quizzes and there will also be a charity raffle (all donations gratefully accepted) and a qualifier raffle as well. Anyone bringing a qualifier will get a special raffle ticket (for that raffle only) for each pound or part thereof, of the cost of the qualifier.
There will also be a stamped postcard draw and an entry form swap. Don’t forget to bring these with you.
For anyone who wants to stay over there is a Travelodge in Penge (even if they do call it Travelodge Crystal Palace ) with 89 rooms - or there are other hotels in Crystal Palace
On Saturday 11th May there will be a treasure hunt that will start and
finish at the Community Centre (12 to 5) (on foot). This will be followed in the evening by a
quiz. The quiz will also be held at the
Community Centre starting at 7.30. It
will include a fish and chip or chicken and chip supper - costs available once
we know how much the fish and chips etc will be.
Friday, 22 February 2013
Win a £49 experience voucher
Eclipse
Leisure are stag & hen do organisers. They’re running a Twitter competition
to give away five vouchers worth £49 towards a Celebrity Style Experience, such
as a paparazzi service, boat cruise or spa session.
To
enter, it’s just a case of tweeting Eclipse Leisure with the name of the
celebrity you’d like to share your stag or hen party with. Head over to the site where you can find some examples of what they are looking for and then use the Tweet button which will open a ready-prepared tweet for you to complete - the hashtag and URL are already in there so all you need to do is add your answer. Use your chosen celebrity's Twitter name in your answer - their definition of a celebrity is one with more than 500,000 followers (I don't quite qualify...... yet)
The
competition ends at 10am on the 21st March 2013 and you can enter once.
More Comping Nostalgia
Last week's post on my eighth Grape Vine birthday had a quick look at some of the ways comping has changed over the last eight years and lots of you emailed with your own memories of how it had changed, so I thought a bit more nostalgia would be welcome.
When we're out hunting for competitions, the changes in the way we shop are very noticeable, as are the shops that are most likely to have competitions. Gone - or poised to go - are Kwik Save (altohugh it's starting to reappear as part of the Costcutter group), Ottakars, Somerfield, Safeway, JJB, Virgin Megastores, HMV, Going Places and Fopp, all of whom had competitions listed in the March 2005 issue. Gone too are the film processing envelopes, which used to often have entry forms printed on them. In their place, we often find them on ink cartridge and phone recycling envelopes.
Supermarkets often had display stands inside the door with entry forms for anything up to a dozen different competitions on them. In store magazines would contain yet more entry forms. Nowadays there are seldom any separate forms in supermarkets - most of the competitions are in the store's magazines, but very few of them ever use an entry form - entries are online or by text and just occasionally by postcard. Just think how much less we spend on postage, and how much less waste paper our "comping corners" (You DO have a comping corner, don't you? Or is that just me?) fill up with!
There still ARE entry forms around - clothes shops and furniture stores are prime hunting grounds for them, and Morrisons and Asda both still produce a few, but not in the huge numbers of the "olden days". And don't forget that I'm only talking about eight years ago, not even the last century!
When we're out hunting for competitions, the changes in the way we shop are very noticeable, as are the shops that are most likely to have competitions. Gone - or poised to go - are Kwik Save (altohugh it's starting to reappear as part of the Costcutter group), Ottakars, Somerfield, Safeway, JJB, Virgin Megastores, HMV, Going Places and Fopp, all of whom had competitions listed in the March 2005 issue. Gone too are the film processing envelopes, which used to often have entry forms printed on them. In their place, we often find them on ink cartridge and phone recycling envelopes.
Supermarkets often had display stands inside the door with entry forms for anything up to a dozen different competitions on them. In store magazines would contain yet more entry forms. Nowadays there are seldom any separate forms in supermarkets - most of the competitions are in the store's magazines, but very few of them ever use an entry form - entries are online or by text and just occasionally by postcard. Just think how much less we spend on postage, and how much less waste paper our "comping corners" (You DO have a comping corner, don't you? Or is that just me?) fill up with!
There still ARE entry forms around - clothes shops and furniture stores are prime hunting grounds for them, and Morrisons and Asda both still produce a few, but not in the huge numbers of the "olden days". And don't forget that I'm only talking about eight years ago, not even the last century!
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