April 2014 wins

 7^th April – All in all a good day.

Firstly I received an e-mail from ‘The Travel Chanel’ saying that one of my pictures (see left) had been chosen as the daily winner in their ‘Around the World in 80 Days’.  This meant I won some travel scales, a Palin's 'Around the World in 80 Days' mug, a worry ball and bag.  All very nice but the really exciting bits are the extras.

The first extra is that my submitted photograph will feature on TV on the Travel Chanel.  So that’s a first.

The second extra is that all 80 of the daily winners then go forward into a final competition with one of the daily winners being chosen to win round the world flight tickets.  The route is Dubai, Bangkok, Sydney,  Santiago (Chile) and Buenos Aires. Fingers crossed.

Later in the day things got even better with an e-mail informing me that I had won a £100 in Morrisons vouchers in their Saturday night takeaway competition.

22^nd – I received an e-mail from Jet2 to say I’d won two tickets to a Viennese Evening  at the Concorde Conference Center at Manchester airport.  It is an evening of Viennese music and dance all in a large room where the aeroplane Concorde is kept.  Also and most importantly, we get to do a quick tour of Concorde.

 

We arrived to a red carpet entrance into the building, where one we cleared reception we were greeted by our first glimpse of Concorde.  We decided to join the queue to go aboard Concorde before the concert, mercifully the queue was quite short at that stage.  From the outside the plane is a thing of beauty, inside it feels very small compared to modern planes.

The rest of the evening was composed of classical Viennese  music, song and ballroom dancing all sat under the wings of the plane.  A slightly surreal but nevertheless enjoyable experience.

March 2014 wins

3^rd March – won London Warehouse Gig tickets – unfortunately I entered for the first prize a trip to Berlin, so the tickets won’t get used.

19^th March – I received an e-mail from 50Connect to say I’d won a year’s subscription to ‘The Weekly’ magazine, a weekly topical magazine.

20^th March - I received a signed for delivery from Capital Radio, inside was a £100 H&M card.  Very useful!

February 2014 wins

4th Feb - I won an autobiography of Nicolas Roeg from film69.

10^th Feb – I won a FA cup pint glass from Budweiser.

28^th Feb – I won a bottle of Silicol Gel from Health Magazine – apparently it’s for indigestion.

January 2014 wins

2^nd Jan - I won a personalised razor from Gillette might be worth putting in the suitcase for one of our weekends away.

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23^rd Jan – I won a lovely upholstered Footstool from Simple Things magazine.  Both the colour and style really fit in with our living room so really pleased with this.

30^th Jan – I had an e-mail from ‘Cultural Tourist’ to say that I’d won a calendar – it turned out to be a single sheet of paper with a few events printed on.  Not really my idea of a win.

November and December 2013 wins

29^th November – Won a signed film post from the new Romeo and Juliet film. As I’d never heard of the leading man who had signed it, it didn't mean an awful lot.   

The year ends with yet another month with no wins.

October 2013 wins

9^th October – I received an e-mail from Smooth Radio to say I’d won a pair of top priced tickets to see Jesus Christ Superstar at the Phones4U arena.  The production starred Melanie Chisholme, Tim Minchin, Chris Moyles and Ben Forster.  It may have had the big names in the big arena but it wasn’t half as good as the small intimate theatre production I’d seen years before.

26^th October – An umbrella arrived from Lambreni

September 2013 wins

11^th September – I received an e-mail from the Guardian saying I'd won a years membership to the Tate.  This enables myself and a guest to attend exhibitions at  any Tate Gallery, it also entails receiving a bi-monthly magazine and a canvas bag.

13^th September – An e-mail arrived from 50Connect to say I’d won a

Crock-Pot Rice Cooker.

July and August 2013 wins

12^th July – A pleasant ‘Country life T-Shirt’ arrived from Country Life.

25^th July – I won some tickets to ‘Boycott and Aggers’ at the Lowry from Cricket World. Geoff Boycott and Jonathan Agnew provided a very pleasant evening of cricket conversation.

Back to the disastrous year in August, no wins again.

May and June 2013 wins

May was another disappointing month.

3^rd May – won a pair of tickets to see the Chinese subtitled film Dragon from seefilmfirst.  The film was visually stunning but basically just the standard kung fu type film.

27^th May –  A box of  ‘All Bran red Berries’ arrived from Kellogg’s.

June was even worse than May, no wins at all

April 2013 wins

April was a quiet month for wins again.

17^th April – a bottle of ‘Citrus Magic’ liquid soap arrived from ‘Yours’ magazine. Nice stuff but not that exciting.

22^nd April – won a pair of tickets to see ‘Little Voice’ at the Opera House, Manchester, starring Beverley Callard, Jess Robinson and Ray Quinn. The girl who took the lead role had a good voice, but overall the production felt a bit crude – though lots of young women laughed heartily and whooped all the way through, so perhaps it’s just me.  I know the film dealt with seediness but it did not go for the cheap laughs that this production aimed for.