Category: Inspiration

Tea and Marmalade

Considering the amount of grumbling I’ve been doing lately about Pinterest and voting competitions, I’d forgive you for thinking my sense of humour was on a short holiday. But never fear, it’s back with...

Capture the Colour: Travel Supermarket competition

I blogged about the lovely competition that Travel Supermarket have launched – Capture the Colour – in last month’s Photo comp round up, and after much rifling through photo albums, have finally got my...

London 2012: my once-in-a-lifetime experience!

As a comper, ‘Win a once-in-a-lifetime experience!’ is one of the most common phrases I see on promotions. I’ve been lucky enough to win several of these – my own butler at Glastonbury Festival,...

Our Start-rite Pinterest Prize

After spending weeks staring at his filthy pair of Adidas trainers, today I decided it was about time Ryland got a new pair of shoes, so we popped to Russell & Bromley at Westfield...

Celebrating success – #PGRaisingOlympians

Procter & Gamble have hosted some wonderful generous promotions for London 2012, including their ‘Thank You Mum’ video competition and lots of in-store purchase necessary comps. Several of my friends won a trip to...

A busy day of comping!

Wednesday is an official silly day at our house – I work 4 days a week and it’s the only day that Ry and I hang out on our own, so I try to...

DON’T Like & WON’T Share!

Today I’m ranting about ‘LIKE and SHARE’ competitions and contests on Facebook. You know the drill: Click LIKE on the photo, then click SHARE on the Public setting. Similar to online voting competitions, ‘Like...

Well Heeled

As you should know by now, I’m a girl who likes to get out and about hunting down the most unusual competitions – and when they involve free shoes, well that’s a no-brainer (see...

Sorrento sunshine

As I sit watching the rain fall outside, it surely seems the perfect opportunity to reminisce about my sunny holiday in Sorrento and make you all jealous! We actually had Chef Ryland to thank...

Come Round… and iron some tea towels!

This weekend’s sunshine put me in a great mood and I get the funny feeling my comping mojo is BACK at last! I received my first LWE (long white envelope) for a while on...