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Postal, Text and Phone Competitions - Part 11
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Yours Mag Issue 105
Imperial Leather are giving away a 6 month supply of
Skin Kind bubble bath & Shower Gel to one lucky reader,
worth £50..
Send your name & address on a postcard to..
Imperial Leather Skin Kind Giveaway
Issue 105
PO Box 57
Coates
Peterborough
PE7 2FF
(If you don't wish to be contacted in future by Yours please write 'No Further Contact' on the p/card)Good Luckplease be a responsible pet owner & spay/neuter your pets, too many strays & not enough homes for them sadly.0 -
im taking over from ikkle posting inside soap.
its a bit late for postcard entries as it has to be in on monday lol
win come rain, come shine dvd
answer - b) rosie webster
Text COMP1 B name & address to 85010
win lie to me - the complete second season dvd
answer - b) libby kennedy
Text COMP2 B name & address to 85010
win last of the summer wine - series 17 & 18
answer -emmerdale
Text COMP3 B name & address to 85010
win jane fonda: prime time fit & strong
answer - c) kathleen 'dixie' dixon
Text COMP4 C name & address to 85010
win the betrayal of natalie hargrove by lauren kate book
answer - a) jacqueline jossa
Text COMP5 A name & address to 85010
sorry forgot the price its 25p + snr
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Competition!
Win £2,000 before the bells!The countdown to 2011 is on!
For your chance to win just tell us:
Who won this year’s I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here?
A. Stacey Solomon From here
B. Gillian McKeith
C. Britt Ekland
Phone 0904 161 11 11 leaving your choice A, B or C followed by your name, address and daytime telephone number.
Or
Text the word WIN, followed by A, B or C to 83788, plus your name and town.
Calls cost £1.50 from BT landlines. Calls from other networks may be higher and from mobiles will be considerably more.
Texts cost £1.50 + 1 standard network rate message. To decline marketing texts, end SMS with NO INFO.
Entrants must be 18 or over.
Lines close 11.50pm tonight and winner will be announced by 12.05am on Saturday January 1st.
Entries made before lines open and after closing time won’t be counted, and if charged will be refunded.
Terms and Conditions
Good luck all! Have a very Happy New Year. :beer:[FONT="][FONT="] Fighting the biggest battle of my life.Started 30th January 2018.
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sorry ive edited it now x0
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Have you been on a visit to an historic site that has really interested you? It can be anywhere in the UK. Perhaps you have been to the ruins of a castle or to an elegant stately home? Write to us and tell us all about it, and explain why it would be a good setting for a new Time Traveller book, choosing a specific time period as well. You must use at least 300 words, but no more than 500.
Send your entry with your name address and age
Time Traveller Writing Competition
Seven Arches Publishing
55, Countess Street
Stockport
SK2 6HB.
1st Prize: Your idea is used in a Time Traveller story with your name on the title page alongside the authors, and a cash prize of £25.00.
2nd and 3rd Prizes: Cash amounts of £15.00 and £10.00 respectively. Commended prizes of £5.00 will be awarded if sufficient entries warrant this. The Judges for the competition will be announced on our website after the closing date.Many thanks to the wonderful staff at Birmingham Childrens Hospital caring for my tiny and very poorly grandson who was born at 29 weeks. Thanks to them he is getting a little stronger every day.:A:A:A0 -
Daily Mail book competition to win a 2 night break at Champneys Springs (Henlow or Forest Mere):
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-1342805/THE-BIG-BOOKS-BRAIN-TEASER.html
Postcard entries only.
All about books -so a lot of net surfing will be needed!0 -
All answers now in - thanks to everyone who helped
Your starters for 10
1. High Grant
2. Ernest Hemingway
3. Ernst Stavro Blofeld
4. Frank McCourt
5. Zooey Deschanel
6. Evelyn Waugh
7. Byron
8. J. K. Rowling
9. Peter Rabbit
10. An exclamation mark - i.e. !
Who wrote what
1. Russell Brand
2. Alan Sugar
3. Chris Evans
4. Tony Blair
5. Michael McIntyre
6. Cheryl Cole
7. Michael Caine
8. Susan Boyle
9 Judi Dench
10. Simon Pegg
Anniversaries
1. Samuel Pepys
2. Howard's End
3. Boris Pasternak
4. Percy Bysshe Shelley
5. Wilfred Thesiger
6. Leo Tolstoy
7. Muriel Spark
8. Ian Rankin
9. The Mill on the Floss
10. Cleghorn
Books & films
1. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
2. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
3. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
4. Mary Poppins, P.L.Travers
5. The Spy who came in from the Cold, John Le Carre
6. Love Story, Erich Segal
7. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
8. The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
9. Notes on a Scandal, Zoe Heller
10. The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
Very good year
1. Peter Mayle
2. Daniel Defoe
3. Margaret Atwood
4. John Irving
5. George Orwell
6. Anthony Burgess
7. Alasdair Gray
8. David Peace
9. Gore Vidal
10. Arthur C. Clarke
Bizarre words
(a) Apteryx - A flightless bird, such as the penguin.
(b) boanthrop - Someone who acts like, or thinks he is, an ox.
(c) cuckquean - A female cuckold.
(d) diglot - Someone who can speak two languages.
(e) ephebe - Greek for an adolescent, a young man.
(f) frass - The dung of insect larvae.
(g) gynotikolobomassophile - Someone who loves to nibble women’s earlobes.
(h) hyetologist - A rainmaker.
(i) idylatry - The worship of nature.
(j) lobdotterel - A gullible fool.
Writers on writing
1. William Hazlitt
2. Frederic Raphael
3. Horace
4. Robert Graves
5. V. S. Pritchett
6. W. B. Yeats
7. Voltaire
8. Gore Vidal
9. Gustave Flaubert
10. Katherine Mansfield
From pages of Daily Mail
1. (a) Warren Beatty
2. (c) Graham Farmelo’s life of quantum physicist Paul Dirac
3. (a) Keith
4. (b) David Willetts
5. (a) Margaret Cook (former wife of Robin Cook)
6. (c) Tammy Wynette
7. (b) Howard Hughes
8. (c) Roger Lewis
9. (a) E.M. Forster
10. (a) Smuggled in a laundry bag0 -
Hi edda, no answers yet (but am more than willing to do a bit of googling
) but this is a postal entry. Entries need to be sent to:
Daily Mail Literary Quiz, Books Pages,
Daily Mail,
Northcliffe House,
2 Derry Street, London W8 5TT
to arrive no later than Wednesday, January 12, 2011.
Message sent to Dalkirst to move to postals
eta: Who Wrote What (easiest one)
1 Russell Brand
2 Alan Sugar
3 Chris Evans
4 Tony Blair
5 Michael McIntyre
6 Cheryl Cole
7 Michael Caine
8 Susan Boyle
9 Judi Dench
10 Simon Pegg
It was a very good Year
1 Peter Mayle
2 Danel Defoe
3 Margaret Atwood
4 John Irving
5 George Orwell
6 Anthony Burgess
7 Alasdair Gray
8 David Peace
9 Gore Vidal
10 Arthur C Clarke
Your starters for 10
1 Hugh Grant
2 Ernest Hemingway
3 Blofeld
4 Frank McCourt
5 Zooey Deschanel
6 Evelyn Waugh
7 Lord Byron
8 J K Rowling
9 Peter Rabbit
10 "!"Never put tables and chairs in the same room.
If they congregate together for any length of time, they will inevitably hatch plots against you and your pets.
Rohan Candappa0 -
Who wrote that?
1. Russell Brand
2. Alan Sugar
3. Chris Evans
4. Tony Blair
5. Michael Macintyre
6. Cheryl Cole
7. Michael Caine
8. Susan Boyle
9. Judi Dench
10. Simon Pegg
Hope they're right!YOU'VE GOT TO BE IN IT TO WIN IT :j:j0 -
Anniversaries
1. Samuel Pepys
2. E.M. Forster
3. Boris Pasternak
4. Percy Bysshe Shelley
5. Wilfred Thesiger
6. Leo Tolstoy
7. Muriel Spark
8. Ian Rankin
9. The Mill on the Floss
10. Cleghorn0
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