Recent Win!

Well it seems I just don't have much time for this blogging lark this year! although I can now proudly boast, half a newly felted roof, just awaiting new tiles and a velux window or two! and a hole in the ground where our new patio will go, currently holding a fair few old roof tiles! recycle folks!

I managed an astounding win on Saturday, well actually 3, as I won two bottles of wine on the tombola at the school summer fair, followed by a yellow wheelbarrow in the raffle....Yes, you heard right a yellow wheelbarrow....I had just remarked to the PCSO standing near me that I didn't want to win the wheelbarrow and they called my name, much to our amusement (I've already got one!) so now I have two?!?!?! I'm sure it'll come in useful sometime?  Anyway bearing this in mind, I'd just like to say I really, really don't want to win the Euromillions tomorrow, I can't possibly imagine how I can spend 117 million....'walks away whistling'

I also trumped Leahs recent win of Mozzie Guard with the wheel barrow, defo not the best things we're winning, but at least we are! roll on tomorrow, I'd honestly have a hard time spending 117 million, hello Jimmy Choo!

Apparently not...

Well seems like I ground to a rapid halt after yelling I'm back, wayyyyyy back in Feb!
Oopse....
To be honest I've been busy working, doing the real life slog of running our comic and games store every day business, whilst dealing with the up heaval of sorting the remainder of the house out, doing the smallest childs birthday and then starting to sort the garden out, especially with the Wonderful weather we had back in April!
I did go on one small jolly to Birmingham NEC though, courtesy of a win by Leah at work, as she's been inspired by my competition entries and has done a few of her own.  The result was a day at The Parelli Horse of the Year Show, which was all about flogging the unsuspecting horse owner, horse and rider psychology books and practices for a pricely sum, whilst getting caught up in the fervour of the day.  Don't get me wrong, it was a good show, lots of interesting horses and techniques, but boy, we're they on a sales pitch, kerching, was the main theme running through my cynical old head.  I had to snigger when one lady we talked to in the dinner que asked me 'Are you Parelli' erm no, sorry, I'm here on a freebie (no doubt with a few others, whom they were trying to convert to Parelli) slight hitch though, I don't have a horse and even if I did, I'm sure I could apply a lot of the techniques they were using myself, after all psychology is about understanding why someone person or animal is doing something, once you realise that, you can deal with it, right......Still it was an amusing day out and hat's off to the management team there for developing yet another way to make money out of people, the head guy was one hell of a sales man/ showman (ex rodeo rider) and if you wanna learn to sell, take a leaf from the Americans.
Anyway I will return soonish with a competition or two I promise!

I'm back!

So after a very hectic house move (I don't recommend moving 3 weeks before Xmas folks) I've finally gotten around to starting doing the competitions again folks! inspired by Liz donating me the cuff from a bottle of wine which we shared on a fine girly evening :-)
Today's competition is from Brancott Wines of NZ, http://www.brancottestate.com/ if you'd like to enter, the cuff says win a trip to NZ or one of 100 cases of wine, however the site says win Jewllery and Cufflinks? which ever, you know I'm not fussy, a win is a win right (although I could put the holiday and wine to more use than jewllery, but hey)
I'm my absence you'll be pleased to know that Leah (who works at our store) took up the competition entering mantle and won £300 worth of Katie Price horse riding gear!!!! (it's rather Pink and glittery in places though.....in a Jordan esque manner, still never mind, free is free!!)
Remember guys if you're not in it, you won't win it!! Create yourself some luck and go for it!

Win wine! hic....

Not one to pass up on the chance of some free booze, I've quickly completed a survey on good old Mumsnet that I came across this evening.  If you'd like to be in with a chance of winning to, simple get on mumsnet and answer their survey about wine tasting! dead easy and someone has to win :-)  A case of wine is up from grabs 'Mont Tauch' from France apparently.  Good Luck!

Gadget Show

Well the lovely Gadget Show sent me another text to win some of their lovely prizes, so hey, I did it, after all my mini winning challenge blog is only up till Xmas anyway, so what's £1.50 to enter once every few weeks between now and then? what! do I hear you cry, that's a loaf of bread and some change, or 3 pints of milk, yessss I know, but what about all those lovely gadgets I may very vaguely stand a chance of winning......well a girls gotta do something whilst waiting for a delivery of boxes to box the house into (and believe you me, I'd rather be at work doing the accounts, you wouldn't believe how far behind I am on that! and end of month and year is looming with associated VAT returns to do.....gah.....) total irony that I can't even use the time to box the house, as I'm waiting for them to be delivered......

Moving House, so lets try to win a new TV!

Yikes, gibber etc, we're moving house next Monday, so if the blog does go a little AWOL for a few days/weeks you'll know why (no internet when we 1st move!)
Anyway as our TV is about 10 years old and the sounds packed up last week....but revived itself again, I figured trying to win a 32" TV wouldn't go amiss.
If you wanna join me, it's lurking on the Daybreak Competition site! courtesy of Plenty (the kitchen towel people)

Wanna win some wellies???

Ok, sorry I'm not doing good at blogging this week, I thought I'd blogged on Thurs and not Fri, but appears I blogged last on Wed, which is not good!
The reason for my failings are to do with us trying to sort out moving house, you'll be pleased to know as we are too that it's all slowly coming together, but I'll have proper confirmation of what's happening on Monday!

Meanwhile I've found a lovely competition to enter on Clover - yep that's the buttery/margarine stuff, that's churned like butter - but half the fat!! They're giving away a family set of hunter wellies, and seeing as we're moving to what could be construed as Hunter Wellies territory (a village! although it's barely in the countryside anymore if the city next door get's its way that green belt will be gone....) I thought we'd better try and win some! so if you fancy joining me, you need the pack code from the front of your pack of clover and http://www.cloverfamily.co.uk/.  The draw is happening every sunday until end of Nov, and then anothe final draw in Feb! go for it (if it snows this winter you may need them where ever you are!)

White Stuff Vouchers

I've done a quick mumsnet competition tonight, well actually it's a questionaire on the display of 'mens' magazines with the random winner being picked from all those who complete the survey to get £150.00 worth of vouchers for The White Stuff, and as I love their clothes, though don't actually own any, due to lack of time and money to shop at the moment! So hey 'waves' let me win!! I need to SHOP!!!

Gadget show competition

So a very quick and easy one today, it's this weeks Gadget Show competition, which they kindly texted me with, as I'd entered before and seeing as I'm doing this blog and haven't had time to research anything at all today, due to being busy at work, I thought hey, go on then, so their targeting of their audience (SUCKER) has worked nicly in this case! still I may be surprised and sitting amidst a pile of gadgets by this time next week, you never know :-)

Channel 4 Competitions

http://www.channel4.com/4homes/play-win/competitions/

So whilst I scoff the last chocolate cake from our tin (I know you think I'm evil for doing this, but I am cooking another batch of plain sponge as I type) let me tell you about todays competition offering.  Those of you who know me, will know I like to tinker with house design ideas, even though I never have the time or money to put them into practice, so todays competition will just help me dream a little more! it's to win the grand designs 3d software package :-) so I can plan extensions and re models galore, whilst not actually costing myself or my beloved a penny!!  You never know, this design tool could come in useful for friends and family too, as seeing what things look like in 3D can spur you onto make those house change decisions that you'd otherwise ignore, and you get a better place to live in whilst your at it too :-) (although it may cost you a bit in the short term, lalalala, not listening in fantasy land!)

I also found on that webiste the True Blood competition which closes on the 18th! they're looking for photos of people as Vampires! (moi do a thing like that) they want you and your fangs, so if you fancy going for it, get UPLOADING your photos fast!

Oooh it's a late one

A quick squeeze in here for todays competition!

I've hit the mumsnet competition pages today and come up with a few!

Win some mukluks (kinda like uggs, but in a fitflop stylie! fitflops for winter if you like!)
plus, win £200 to spend at Sainsb's or Toys r us and another which was Win £100 to spend with an online clothing company.

Well you never know, can't beat quick and easy competitions eh!

Naughty Me!

Yikes forgot to post yesterday, 'muppet' dunno what I was busy doing though? anyway on with the blog!

Todays competition is Sainsburys Magazines monthly jolly for a total of 6 items this month, pots n pans, jewllery, smellies, glasses and a stay at Riber Hall (it's only down the road as well!)
text SB12 followed by a space, your name, address and tel no to 85088 and it could all be yours!!
I'll post a double competition tomorrow to make up for missing yesterday, which incidently I didn't as far as competitions go, I have entered one, I'm just out of time to tell you about it now, as have a friend popping in! hurrah for an evening of company other than just the internet, or the dulcet sounds of poor A snoring as he's shattered and inevitably fallen asleep on the sofa.

Gadget time

Well it appears that if you enter the Gadget Show competition just the once, they bother you again and again via text to enter the next one, so of course I did, just imagine what I could do with a pile of gadgets???!!!  (no doubt have lots of fun and get mightily confused on the odd occasion, but hey FREE STUFF, well bar the quid or so it costs to enter.)  So that's my competition for today :-)

Mondays Competition

Here's a nice quick one for monday and may just help out with the Xmas shopping

www.houseoffraser.co.uk/wonderland

House of Fraser are giving away a £500 gift card on 22nd Dec, for those last minute spending purchases that you JUST have to grab!   Go on, enter and spoil yourselves!

Fridays Competition

Well I'm sat listening at a variety of whizz, bang, crashes from outside, whilst inside both kids keep yelling that they can't get to sleep because of the noise, sigh, the joys of fireworks! It's a shame we can see half of what we can hear, or it'd be a lovely night in! with a cracking view! eh well.
Todays competition comes courtesy of our local newspaper, I logged on earlier to check out the news and got a survey offering me £50 in Amazon vouchers, so of course I said yes, I'll take your survey! simple really and you never know eh!

Win a Family Holiday in New York!

http://www.klmfamilyfun.co.uk/win  follow this link and give it a go guys, it's for a 5 day, pre xmas holiday in New York, I have no idea why I've entered (bar the fact I LOVE New York) as we may well be having to move house in the weeks leading upto Xmas! but hey I'm sure I can fit in a trip to good old NYC around the solicitors and the removals guys and work....that we can't actually leave! oh what the heck, maybe I can leave dh to work and take a mum friend!  Theres also an instant win chance for a Disney Store toy linked in, but I didn't win on that, bah!

Ipad and a sorta win?

Well today I've entered a McVities competition that I found on the 'Daybreak' ITV site, to win an IPAD, I like those, I've played on my friends one 'adopts stalker pose' and thus I'd like a free one of my own :-)

Meanwhile back at Chez Friz, I had an email with a sort of mini win on it, well it would be if I could use it!
Walkers said, hey you, have a free win a tenner play on us, so I logged onto do it, only to find out that all the plays for the 4th Nov have been taken, bah! gotta wait until tomorrow am for the next set to be available.....I shall try again!

It's November!

Well hope you all had a good night out trick or treating yesterday? Here we are 1st November, my beautiful 1st daughters birthday :-) she's a whopping 7 today! where does the time go?  I spent yesterday partying with her, so hopefully she's had a lovely time.

Soooo what competitions does November hold for us?

http://www.olivesfromspain.co.uk/about-olives/

Yep, it's time to forget the dreary English Weather and try and win some Spanish Sunshine, courtesy of Olives from Spain! failing that there's a cookery class up for grabs too.  If you fancy your chances, follow the link, you've gotta be in it, to win it.

Gadget Show Comp/Lazy day

I've just done a quick entry today, to the gadget show competition, as I've been busy battling with work and tired children and some days, it's just too much hassle to do anything else you know, so yes I've been lazy, from lazy tea for us all (oven chips, frankfurters and frozen broccoli, you know Jamie Oliver would freak!) to lazy quick competition! £21,000 worth of gadgets though, and seeing as we have virtually none, they'd all be of great use :-)

I Phone 4

Well the lovely people at Philidelphia (the cream cheese people - Kraft foods, the peeps who took over Cadburys recently, much to the disgust of the UK Media) are offering to give away an I Phone 4, so of course I've entered, just in case I can relieve them of it, after all what better way for me to update my blog, than via a new I Phone 4? surely? :-)
http://www.philadelphia.co.uk/ if you fancy joining my endevours?  I skipped the holiday to Chile they're also offering, as should we win any holidays for two, I seriously doubt we'd be able to afford the time off to go :-( but that's not stopping my Vegas efforts!)