East Midlands Comp Clubs: new members wanted!

Notts about Comping is a group of ladies who meet monthly on a Saturday morning in the Crowne Plaza Hotel bar, in Nottingham City Centre. We enjoy coffee and a chat, share our entry forms and read through the latest supermarket and competition magazines – there’s also a raffle where we all bring along a prize on a theme, and do a lucky dip to see who wins all the goodies. Today’s theme was ‘Europe’, featuring lots of European food and a Swedish book!

My other comping club – which has no name, as it’s still a relatively disorganised affair! – meet every few months on a Tuesday or Wednesday evening, at the Castlewood Pub (just off the M1 Junction 28). I usually give Steve (Compers News editor) a lift up there, and he keeps us updated on the latest on-pack and text promotions. Pam Crampton is a regular too – Pam writes for several publications and has many years of comping experience (…yes, that means she’s incredibly old!*). Sometimes we can have fifteen or so people at the meetings but this week’s was a smaller affair, with just seven of us. Still, Marie’s loud enough to make up for everyone else!

I’ll admit this meeting is more about catching up on gossip than comping – we were so disorganised this week that we were all sharing a biro to scrawl our comp notes on napkins! Unfortunately Marie knocked a pint of water everywhere and accidentally used Claire’s napkin to wipe it up… hmmmm, I wonder what important things she’d written on it?

As well as gossiping, we all report on our latest wins, and reminisce about the glory days of slogan competitions. Claire brought along some prize scratchcards this week, and ran a little comp to guess the mileage on her car. I was the closest and bagged £3 from my scratchcards, which I’ll be spending on Tango for the imminent Win £250 Every Hour promotion…

If you do live in the area and would like to come to either of these comp clubs, drop me a line at di@superlucky.co.uk and I’ll let you know when the next meetings are!