Weekend shenanigans!

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So, for the first time in ages we spent a whole weekend at home on our own in Nottingham, enjoying our new cookbooks, building train tracks and listening to S.C.U.M. But of course, I had to squeeze in a little bit of comping…

On Saturday morning I checked my emails to find a newsletter from Comet – “Win a treadmill!” Not my cup of tea AT ALL, but I know that lots of PrizeFinder members had gym equipment on their wishlists, so I though I’d share it on Facebook. Whilst on the Comet page I noticed a cheeky comp with Ecozone – be one of the first three people to upload a photo of your Comet receipt for their dishwasher tablets, and you win 12 boxes (worth almost £100)! Well you know me… I live round the corner from Comet, so I left the boys with their Duplo and popped off to get my photo (thanks to Brett the cashier for taking this snap!) – it’s not too late to enter this one, the next ten entrants get a free box too – check out their Facebook page.

Then our friends Cath & Matt came round for lunch and babysat Ry for us whilst Rob and I headed off on a rare date… to the football!

Just before Christmas on the nPower League Facebook page I spotted a photo comp where the first 50 entries won tickets to a Home fixture in January – as there were only three entries it was a guaranteed prize. I decided to ask for Nottingham Forest tickets – I support Birmingham and Rob’s a Gooner so it’s a compromise to go and support the local boys!  We knew it was likely to end badly – Forest are in the bottom three, while Southampton are top of the League. The 3-0 defeat was no surprise after Forest went down to ten men – at least Birmingham managed a hilarious 6-0 thrashing of Millwall though!

Still, on the way to the City Ground I stopped for a photo for the new McDonalds coffee comp – upload a photo of you with your ‘Full bean’ coffee cup to their Facebook App and you could win one of their daily prizes. You can enter daily, so I seem to constantly have the empty cup in my handbag at the moment!

The Kleenex ‘Soothing Tips’ competition has been running for months, but despite having my idea planned AGES ago I just hadn’t had the time to film it. But today was so cold, and Ry’s nose so snotty, I decided we should get to work… so here’s our suggestion for how to soothe away colds this Winter – by making your own Tissue Fun Box! This is the first film I’ve made for ages and I’d forgotten how much fun it is… mind you, it does help to have willing co-stars.




As well as offering a £100 John Lewis voucher for the top Soothing tip photo and video entries, Kleenex are also asking for family memories this month – so they’ve got four £100 prizes up for grabs in total. Check out the details here.

So, that was my trio of comps for this weekend – as for this week, I’ve got some serious messy cooking to do with Ry for the Red Ted Art and Baby Budgeting bloggers comps!

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