We were met at the Odeon at Liverpool ONE by Janine from the VisitLiverpool who gave us the tickets. We walked up the red carpet and to the screen where the Premier was to take place. We were shown to our seats and awaited the start of the film.
Following the film we were taken by taxi to the Il Forno Italian restaurant where we had a lovely meal. Dale had braised chicken livers, followed by rack of lamb with a ice cream desert to finish. I had a ravioli dish to start, followed by a platter of various grilled fish, this was all finished with a panocotta dessert. After finishing off a bottle of very nice wine and our coffees we climbed into a taxi and returned to our hotel.
12th Oct: Whilst sitting down to tea I missed a telephone call on my mobile. Luckily the lady who attempted to call me left a message. We’d won tickets to the musical ‘Chicago’ at the Palace Theatre staring Gary Wilmot. The production was excellent though Gary Wilmot was quite weak.
What a fantastic response. Turn out the prize also includes tickets to Seaworld, Busch Gardens, Discovery Cove and Aquatica
3rd August: I received an e-mail from RBS to say I’d won a copy of Jackie Stewart’s biography – "Winning is not Enough".
1st July: - When driving home my phone rang, it was a very nice lady from the Lancashire Telegraph to say I’d won a pair of tickets to see Lancashire play Hampshire in the semi-final of the Friends Provident Trophy. It was a lovely day with some great fielding, unfortunately Lancashire’s batting wasn’t up to the task and they lost convincingly.
8th July: - I received a letter from Smooth Radio informing me that I’d won a ‘Manly Meal’ for two at The Monroe in Liverpool. The meal was to consist of a pie, a pint and a pudding. The Monroe is a nicely updated pub near the centre of Liverpool. We were informed that the pie promotion to which the competition referred was the previous month, however, the chef had made us a chicken pie specially. The chicken pie turned out to be chicken and apricot, served with chunky chips and red wine gravy and was delicious. We followed this up with bread and butter pudding and coffee. A very nice experience.
9th July: - I won a book from ‘liberalengland’ called ‘A Useful Fiction’.
pair of tickets to see ‘Nine Inch Nails’. This was very pleasing as they are one of my daughter’s favourite bands. They were supported by Jane’s Addiction. Both bands seemed a bit tuneless to my ears but as most of the others there seemed to be enjoying it I have to concede that it may be me that was out of step.
17th July: - I took a phone call from a lady at Real Radio to say I’d won a couple of tickets to the Amir Khan WBA Light Welterweight World Title Fight at the MEN. After picking up the tickets I negotiated with a ticket tout and picked up £100 for the tickets. We decided to go for a meal at Café Istanbul in Manchester, after a lovely meal with a few drinks I still had money left over so a good prize all round.
6th February: Received an e-mail to say I’d won a whisky tasting and a meal at the five star Lowry Hotel in Manchester. Unfortunately due to family circumstances at the time and the fact that the meal was just for one person, I had to decline the prize.
21st February: Received an e-mail to say I’d won an Alaskan Seafoods cookery book from New Homes magazine.
25th February: I received a phone call at home from the Lancashire Telegraph to say I’d won tickets to the Gershwin opera ‘Let 'em Eat Cake’ at the Lowry Theatre. Both the opera and the performance were a bit disappointing.
5th January: First win of the year a £5 Amazon voucher from GfK.
12th January: Won a pair of preview tickets to see the film Nixon at Bolton. Unfortunately because of the snow we had to turn back so missed the film.
16th January: Received a phone call from the Lowry Theatre to say I’d won a pair of tickets to the musical Buddy. Unfortunately I missed where he said the prize was from, but we had a very enjoyable evening nonetheless.
31st January: Received a strange object in the mail, it took quite a while to figure out what it was. It was a cava cooler, it can best be described as a jacket into which ice cubes can be inserted. Checking on the web – it apparently came from ‘Marques de Monistrol’.
10th December: Had to pick up another parcel this time it was an 8GB I-pod Nano 4thGeneration from Kia
17th December: Dale received a telephone call from Lake District Life to say she’d won a Home Spa Hamper. We arranged to go and pick it up at Hawkshead. It contained lots of nice soaps etc in a basket.
19th December: Dale rang to say she’d received a call to say we’d won a long weekend in Chicago. We stay at the Conrad Chicago for three nights and also included is tickets to see the play ‘The Seafarer’ at the Steppenwolf Theatre starting John Mahoney of Fraiser fame.
20th December: Won a recipe book on Puddings
30th December: Won some tickets to a screening
of Australia from Jacobs Creek but unfortunately because of the venue was not able to attend.
3rd November: Won tickets to Cripple of Inishmaan at the Lowry from Whatsonstage Manchester.
6th November: Had to pick up a parcel this turned out to be a Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot from
Galaxy FM.
3rd October: A recipe book arrived from Nestle
5th October: Won a glass from Grolsch
17th October: A pair of tickets arrived to the Freeze Festival from Channel 4. As these
arrived at very short notice and the event was at the other end of the country they were not
unfortunately used.
20th October: Won a pair of tickets to Seven Brides
for Seven Brothers at Manchester Opera House from Smooth FM
22nd October: Tickets to ‘Heroes of Sport Exhibition at Manchester Central arrived from City Life.
13th August: A bottle of Ambre Solier sun tan lotion arrived – ideal for our up coming holiday to Rome. Also a stainless steel flask and a heat pad arrived from Deep Heat
28th August: Tickets to a film preview from See Films First
3rd July : Won a bright orange ‘Philosophy Football’ t-shirt from Red Pepper
4th July: A copy of ‘The Painter, the Cook and L’Arte di Sacla’ book from ‘First Post’ this is a rather nice Italian food book
7th July: A pair of cinema tickets arrived from Smooth FM
8th July: Won a pair of tickets to see ‘Crown Matrimonial’ at the Lowry Theatre from Whatsonstage Manchester. 8th July: Another £5 Amazon voucher from GfK surveys.
16th July: An mp3 download from Impulse
17th July: A bottle of wine, pen and key ring from Experience more
28th July: A bottle of Dooleys arrived today – I’ve no idea from where.
4th June: Received an e-mail from Microsoft to say we had won a 'Experience@ voucher for 100 points. After much deliberation of the options available to us we decided on a night at the greyhound racing. We attended a night at the Belle View racecourse. The prize included entry, a three course meal and a race card. We had a window seat in the main stand. We enjoyed a good night’s entertainment, both of us having a small bet on each race. At the end of the night after totting up our winnings we found that we’d lost 60 pence. Could be worse. 
