The Compers Inn (part 47)

lomaxsylvia

Up late today as was still awate at 4.40 am. Going to Leeds today for some retail therapy.

Glad you are all safe everyone.

Sorry to hear about your Uncle Sheils, glad you have some happy memories of him. Noticed your DS managed to get baking done yesterday and opened today, I expect customers will understand due to weaather which you have no controll over.

Have a lovely day everyone, whatever you are doing and good luck for an end of month win.

sheils6

Thanks everyone re uncle, just hoping the funeral isn't before my parents get home from Benidorm. They were abroad last time an uncle died too but they were home for funeral. DS3 will have another funeral to go to on this break home , his bf is uncle's grandson. Last time he was home it was another friend's mum and neighbour.

Hope you enjoy shopping trip Sylvia. Don't think there would be many people about Falkirk yesterday, schools etc were closed. DS2's village was even worse hit though. Noticed 2 customers had put sad faces on their message yesterday and one moaned she had to go to Greggs. Think she is their best customer as she works along road and is in every day.

rosemac

Home again thank goodness. It is freezing. Sun is out and clear sky so it looks nice. Pavements have been gritted now on main thoroughfares those little pavement gritters do a good job. Had a look in our grit bin and it has been filled up so no excuse for us to slip and slide in the courtyard lol. Neighbour went and got bags of grit from depot. So must go up later and see how much I owe him. It usually cost us about £1 each but he never comes to ask for the money but we all make sure he is not out of pocket. Puppy sitting for a couple of hours this afternoon (looking forward to it) and picking kids up from school. So a surprise for them. Neighbour should be back around 5pm so puppy is going to school with me in its own puppy bag lol. Never understood putting dogs in a bag but as it has not had all of its inoculations yet can understand it with a pup.

AlfieBlue

Hellooee everyone :hello:

Hope you're all ok .... awful reading/seeing news reports
about the trail of destruction caused by Storm Doris
yesterday. :eek:

Thank you fire**fly xx :A - luckily my daughter and family
are ok - dreadful hearing about others though. _pale_

So sorry to hear about your Uncle sheils - it's lovely that
you have happy memories of him though. xxx

Pleased you got home safely rose ... aww ... am loving
hearing about the puppy :grinheart - your GKs will be so
surprised when you pick them up from school with furry
bundle of scrumptiousness in tow!

Enjoy your 'retail therapy' in Leeds today sylv! :T Leanfun -
have a wonderful day with your family. Have a brilliant
day indie, hope you get out to do a bit of gardening.

mcculloch29 wrote: »

Thank you all for the lovely welcomes, and AlfieBlue, fond memories indeed.
Sometimes I would write a slogan that someone else used later on, did that ever happen to you? Of course you can't prove anything.
I can still remember one of my own favourite winning slogans. It won me £1000 just before Christmas 1993, my second one as a single parent. I had just finished a training course and was waiting to re-start working as a registered childminder.

I'd taken out a Halifax Credit Card to pay the £70 phone bill as I could see no other way of doing it. (£70! £26 a month now and that includes fibre-optic broadband). With the card application form was a competition to win £1000 loaded on the card.
You had to say why you wanted the card...

"With Halifax plastic, my cash is elastic."

Bingo. Whoever said money can't bring happiness was wrong, in my case. It brought a lot of happiness that Christmas.

I can remember your Halifax slogan well mcculloch29! I recall
thinking how very clever it was and a worthy winner! :T

Yes .... sadly plagiarism was rife back in the day though as
you say - it could never be proved. It used to annoy me that
people used the 'easy' way to win prizes by copying original
slogans - and winning with them too!

I've spent this morning rummaging through my comping
files packed full of congratulation letters, most from years
back!

So many wins - various cash prizes including £5500 for
treasure hunt, £1000 gift card for Toy's R Us, gold nuggets
(£5,000 worth), Tv's, home entertainment systems, holidays -
the list is endless. But, as you say .... they all came at just
the right time in our lives. And to keep winning (especially
money) was an absolute godsend at the time. Also
entered lots of arty competitions with great success - always
loved designing/illustrating/painting etc.

One of the holidays won by a slogan was a family hol to
Hollywood with everything thrown in including £1000
spending money/car hire etc plus free tickets to Universal
Studios.

It was run by KP-McVities promoting multi-packs of
crisps. If I recall you had to say in so many words why
you wanted to go and visit the Jurassic ride ....

Well, bearing in mind the promotion was based around
multi-packs, Jurassic etc ... I eventually came up with ...

"When 'KP' crunchers meet Spielberg's breed .....
multi-packed sn'action is guaranteed!"

My goodness - when I was chosen as the winner I was
walking on air for months! :j

Yep .... those were the days! :grinheart


Well, time for a cuppa and a bite to eat me thinks!

Have a wonderful day all and take care.

Alfie xxx

rosemac

Goodness puppy has just had an accident (peed on carpet) hopefully it will not happen in bag. Do not want a trail of wee down my leg

rosemac

of in a few mins to pick kids

mcculloch29

AlfieBlue wrote: »

Hellooee everyone :hello:

Hope you're all ok .... awful reading/seeing news reports
about the trail of destruction caused by Storm Doris
yesterday. :eek:

Thank you fire**fly xx :A - luckily my daughter and family
are ok - dreadful hearing about others though. _pale_

So sorry to hear about your Uncle sheils - it's lovely that
you have happy memories of him though. xxx

Pleased you got home safely rose ... aww ... am loving
hearing about the puppy :grinheart - your GKs will be so
surprised when you pick them up from school with furry
bundle of scrumptiousness in tow!

Enjoy your 'retail therapy' in Leeds today sylv! :T Leanfun -
have a wonderful day with your family. Have a brilliant
day indie, hope you get out to do a bit of gardening.



I can remember your Halifax slogan well mcculloch29! I recall
thinking how very clever it was and a worthy winner! :T

Yes .... sadly plagiarism was rife back in the day though as
you say - it could never be proved. It used to annoy me that
people used the 'easy' way to win prizes by copying original
slogans - and winning with them too!

I've spent this morning rummaging through my comping
files packed full of congratulation letters, most from years
back!

So many wins - various cash prizes including £5500 for
treasure hunt, £1000 gift card for Toy's R Us, gold nuggets
(£5,000 worth), Tv's, home entertainment systems, holidays -
the list is endless. But, as you say .... they all came at just
the right time in our lives. And to keep winning (especially
money) was an absolute godsend at the time. Also
entered lots of arty competitions with great success - always
loved designing/illustrating/painting etc.

One of the holidays won by a slogan was a family hol to
Hollywood with everything thrown in including £1000
spending money/car hire etc plus free tickets to Universal
Studios.

It was run by KP-McVities promoting multi-packs of
crisps. If I recall you had to say in so many words why
you wanted to go and visit the Jurassic ride ....

Well, bearing in mind the promotion was based around
multi-packs, Jurassic etc ... I eventually came up with ...

"When 'KP' crunchers meet Spielberg's breed .....
multi-packed sn'action is guaranteed!"

My goodness - when I was chosen as the winner I was
walking on air for months! :j

Yep .... those were the days! :grinheart


Well, time for a cuppa and a bite to eat me thinks!

Have a wonderful day all and take care.

Alfie xxx

Wow. Just wow, and I think I remember your slogan too! ('Sn'action' rings a distinct bell).

I was an avid Competitor's Journal reader for years, I think I still have a CJ bookmark in a drawer somewhere, I won it as a consolation prize for one of the best slogans that didn't win a thing (mind has gone blank as to what that was, but I know it was good).

I once did a deal with a friend for 10% of £10 000 which was a prize linked with a purchase of a new Rover Metro car she had made.

'Driven to distraction, turned to Rover,
This maiden bowled over'.

She had bought the car when she couldn't really afford a new one but had been stitched up royally on a second hand purchase. Her car was paid for and I had a very nice windfall.
Karma for both of us.

mcculloch29

Remembered the slogan that didn't win anything but perhaps should have. The prize was a stereo video system, linked with a promotion of a WW II film on the US Air Force and the story of an aircraft - it will come back to me what the title was.

Anyway, I wanted the stereo video system as 'I find mono plain.'

fire**fly

evening all :wave:

lol rose awww @ puppy
bet the LO's loved seeing him/her x

glad to hear all's ok with daughter & all are ok Alfie x

hope you had a lovely time shopping sylv

wish they'd sort this captcha thing out on here lol,
bad enough getting them on comps never mind when we're posting on here! :eek:
anyways, hope everyone's having a nice evening

leanfun30

Sheils sorry to hear about your uncle. (Hugs). My sister's bIL died last month and the funeral isn't until Next week four week cap. This was in the midlands. It might not be such a long wait your way, do hope your parents are home for it.

Pleased everyone is ok after the storm. Sunny here today and family have been out to a museum.

Rose hope the GKs enjoyed the pupppy and there were no mishaps. The weather has been bad your way.

Alfie and mccullockgreat to hear you reminisce about comps. Alfie sounds as though you had some great wins.

Firefly pleased you are ok.

Indie hope you didn't work too hard.

Sylvia I woke twice for ages in the night. It's a right pain when you miss sleep. Hope you enjoyed your retail therapy in Leeds

Hope everyone has a good and lucky weekend.