I spotted a blog posting a few weeks ago and it was looking for a prolific Scottish comper to go onto a television program called The Hour to talk about their hobby. Well I thought I could do that, might be interesting, so I e-mailed them to make further enquiries, and following a telephone interview they decided I was an appropriate candidate and are coming out to interview me on Friday May 20th.
Must admit I'm quite excited about getting to talk about a hobby I love so much, and between Loquax, Facebook, blogging and tweeting there is plenty to talk about. I have had a fairly successful year for wins, nothing major but a steady stream of small wins that I am more than happy with. Am hoping for a few more small wins over the next few weeks as they are wanting me to open any I receive for the cameras.
I must admit there are a few prizes I would like to win if I had a choice,a nice new laptop something a bit smaller, lighter and more powerful than what I currently use to competition with,open more than 1 page at a time on this one and it hesitates between changes and stops responding far too regularly, a nice e-reader as I find to difficult to read books now as I have a touch or arthritis in my hands, a carpet cleaner would be useful with my gold coloured living room carpet,especially before the camera crew come out and show up my dirty marks in HD for all to see!! or some new clothes would all be much appreciated. ( models shown just an example I'm not too fussy of make and model in reality).
So by way of celebration of my TV debut I have decided to run a competition. But what is the prize I hear you ask? I am going to give away 3 tickets for the Euro Lottery, 3 tickets for the Saturday night lottery and 3 £2 scratch cards. Think I will spilt these into a first and second prize, 2 of each for the first out the bag and 1 of each for the runner up.
You can see my debut and what I thought of it over here
To enter this competition please
1. follow my blog with Google friend connect, and then leave me a comment below to tell me what you would be the first thing you would spend some of the money on if you won £1000 with one of the tickets.
for additional entries ( each counts as one separate entry)
1. follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/#!/pooohbear2811 and leave a comment here with your twitter name to tell me you have done so
2. follow me by e-mail leave me a separate comment to tell me you have done so.you will then get daily updates in your google reader to see what is happening in my part of the world.
and thats it folks.
Competition will close at 12 noon on Friday May 27th , lottery tickets will be for the draw on June 3rd for Euro Lottery and June 4th for the Saturday night.
I will use random number generator to pick the winners, but reserve the right to re-pick a 2nd prize winner if by any chance both numbers originally picked belong to the same person, thereby giving 2 people a chance to win big.
ThePrizeFinder - UK Competitions.
I'd buy an iPad, since it looks as if I'm never going to win one. And then I'd head to the fragrance department of a big store and treat myself to something gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI'm following you on Twitter @janesgrapevine
ReplyDeleteIf I won a thousand pounds I'd use it to give my 5 kids the best holiday ever when we go to Weymouth on our first family holiday soon.
ReplyDeleteAm already following you on twitter as @n76seary
ReplyDeleteam now following you by email (niclon26@aol.com)
ReplyDeleteIf I won £1000 I would spend it on a family holiday as we are yet to have one as a family of four
ReplyDeleteFollwing by email too :)
ReplyDeleteFollowing on Twitter @lisanorfolk
ReplyDeleteIf I won a £1000 I'd buy a new oven as ours is definitely very dead and although I have managed without it easily for several months I miss baking. With the leftover I would buy an Iphone for my OH so he has a new gadget to play on after having his Touch stolen a few months ago.
ReplyDeleteI am following you on twitter
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway xx
@medsdemon
If i won £1000 i would treat my 2 boys and hubby to a week away from home somewhere-we could have great fun!
ReplyDeletei follow on twitter @sandigled
ReplyDeletei follow through google friend connect.
ReplyDeleteI would buy a few tins of paint and rolls of wallpaper to brighten up my house, its lookng rather tatty at the moment :( Good luck with the TV debut - can't wait to see it xx
ReplyDeleteJust about to follow on Twitter
ReplyDelete@babesShelley
I am a thrifty so and so and would put it in the bank!! Good luck on the winning stuff!
ReplyDeleteMaggy
(@redtedart)
I'm following the blog. I'd put the money towards a trip to Australia to see my sister.
ReplyDeleteFollowing on twitter @ericahughes.
ReplyDeleteif i won i would buy a new piece of lino for the bathroom, we have to rip ours up tomorrow as it has gone mouldy and started to smell !! not nice lol we cant afford a new bit just now tho so we are going to have to live with a rather unattractive grey painted concrete floor .. will look like a garage :(
ReplyDeleteam following your blog and look forward to reading about how the interview went :) xx
oh and i follow you on twitter also :)
ReplyDelete@clareandtribe
If I won £1000, the first thing I would buy would be a double brandy to get over the shock... then I'd set off to buy a new tv & dvd player as ours are badly in need of replacing now.
ReplyDeleteHave followed Blog and following on Twitter @bruniebox
I would put it towards a first holiday abroad for my kids!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat comp thanks and Good Luck for your TV interview!
Following on Twitter @LucieA79
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I would buy a 50 inch tv and get my eyes tested, I know i need glasses, then probably realise the TV is too big.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the show, sounds exciting.Hope to see you on TV soon. xx
I am following
I am also following @Jo_Bryan
ReplyDeleteFollowing via email also
ReplyDeleteI am following you via GFC :D
ReplyDeleteIf I was lucky enough to win one thousand pounds, I would firstly put say a hundrd into my daughter's saving account, use some for our wedding in 2012 (every penny counts) and then I would buy a little something for my daughter and husband-to-be. x
I am following you on Twitter @mum2alesha :) xx
ReplyDeleteI am following you via email also, g_moloney@hotmail.com :) x
ReplyDeletefollowing you on twitter as @sadiequinton
ReplyDeletewill look forward to following your blog Elaine & good luck with the television program x
If I won £1000 I would buy my son a laptop to help with his learning & also treat myslef to a fancy new bag x
If i won £1000 i'd pay to turf the garden (previous owner slabbed and decked the entire thing!) and then buy my 2 children the trampoline they have been begging me for. @lilysmum2008
ReplyDeleteif i won a thousand pounds, i would put it towards our next holiday.Good luck with the shoe.
ReplyDeletefollowing you on twitter @lilysmum2008
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ReplyDeleteIf i won £1000 i would use it to spruce up my little girls room as she will be sharing with a new little brother or sister in the coming months
following on google friend...if i won the thousand pounds id spend it on baby things as me and hubby are currently working on baby number 3 :) x
ReplyDeletehey im following by email :)
ReplyDeleteif i won i would deffintley book a holiday
I am following you with the google thingy!
ReplyDeleteFirst thing I would buy would be a flight down from Scotland to London so see my mum who is poorly. Then maybe a new laptop just for me LOL.
I am following you on twitter - @slbhill42
ReplyDeleteI am also following you by email. I feel a bit like a stalker ;-)
ReplyDeletefollowing and if i won i would treat the family to a wee break
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ReplyDeleteIf i won the £1000 i'd treat my best friend to a well deserved holiday to say thankyou. I had a breakdown in 2009 and he's been caring for me ever since.
I've followed your blog, first thing I would do if i won £1000 would be buy a Ipad, been wanting one for ages.
ReplyDeleteI've followed you on Twitter, your avatar on Twitter is gorgeous!!
ReplyDeleteMy Twitter name is @snowted
My finacee and I are trying to save up for a wedding so I would certainly put the money towards that so we can have a great day.
ReplyDeleteI am now following you on Twitter as M3EXE, if I won £1000 I would put the money towards my wedding to make sure we could have a lovely day.
ReplyDeleteI'm following you via Google Friend Connect (feefeegabor at googlemail.com).
ReplyDeleteI would spend £1,000 on next month's Mortgage payment (boring, I know!).
loving the uses for the £1000, proves that a lot of us compers are hard up people that do it to try and make a difference to our lives
ReplyDeletei would buy my mum an Iphone shes wants to know what the fuss is all about! :P
ReplyDeleteHow lovely to see your blog (didn't know you had one) I would spend the money on a nice family getaway, as it's a luxury we just can't afford at the moment and we need a break!
ReplyDeleteI am already following you on twitter
ReplyDelete@claireishoop
i am following you by email too
ReplyDeleteIf i won £1000 it would go towards a nice holiday for me and friends. :)
ReplyDeleteSimon.
If i won i would book a family holiday!
ReplyDelete@ashlallan
meant to say in my last comment that i am following by gfc, i am now following by email too
ReplyDelete@ashlallan
I'd buy a pair of GHD's as I have desperately tried to win some without success!
ReplyDeleteAm also following you on Twitter @rachiegr
ReplyDeletei'm following you on twitter would love to win the prize.. twitter name @craigbrown3
ReplyDeleteI'm following your blog :)
ReplyDeleteIf I'm lucky enough I would buy myself a special treat: some Pandora and Trollbeads to complete my collection, some Boden clothes for my daughter and a bike for my hubby for his training :)
I'm following on Twitter @CoxeeFoxy
ReplyDeleteFollowing on twitter, @almac1965
ReplyDeleteFollowing the blog @almac1965
ReplyDeleteHi, I am following on Google Friend Connect. The first thing I would buy is a new laptop, mine is slowly dying, I don't want an iPad though but a proper heavy duty laptop.
ReplyDeleteFollow my blog with Google friend connect - done. If I won £1000 with one of the tickets I would have to buy a newer 2nd hand car as mine is on it's way out.
ReplyDeleteI have followed on Twitter - @clairew137
ReplyDeleteI follow you via Google Friend Connect
ReplyDelete£1000 wow... I would buy my husband the 'Monster' trainers he has been looking at for ages and my daughter a Barbie Castle
I follow you on twitter
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I subscribe to your blog
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I am following on GFC
ReplyDeleteIf i won £1000 i would use it as spending money on my holiday at the end of the month and really treat the kids.
if i won it would be used to get a proffesional in to de gut my house and decorate lol
ReplyDeletefollowing mrstracey1972
I'm following with GFC :)
ReplyDeleteI think if I won £1000 the first thing I'd buy would be a trailer for my son's dirt bike. He got it as a present a few years ago, but hasn't been able to ride it since we moved away from Wales. So that's what I'd do :)
I am following from @compgirl1 on Twitter
ReplyDeleteI am also following by email (similar name to my Twitter )
ReplyDeleteThanks for running the giveaway, good luck all!
I would have to use some of it for debt :( boo! but I would take my family away for a well deserved seaside weekend break with whippy ice creams, sandcastles, donkey rides and lots os smiles :))
ReplyDeleteI follow you on twitter @HannahBeadle
ReplyDeleteI follow by email also
ReplyDeleteI'd pay off some debt and then i'd buy new clothes and toys for my kids and perhaps a holiday
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ReplyDeletealso followed by twitter dark_angel787
ReplyDeleteI am following on Google Friend Connect
ReplyDeleteI would buy a new TV :-)
I am following you on Twitter @aesop57
ReplyDeleteHi. I'm following on GFC. I would use it to pay off some of the credit card.
ReplyDeletehi there following your blog through GFC-money rozinna dharamsi
ReplyDelete£1000 -spendies? tickets/ Flights/ accomodation and for meals for my sister and I to go see Barry Manilow in Las Vegas!
SIGH!!!
@kohsamuirosie on twitter
found you on twitter following @kohsamuirosie
ReplyDeleteI would still spend the money on Barry Manilow - my poor sis! I think I would buy 2 T Shirts for us to wear at the concert too!!!!
I'm following on Google connect. If I won £1000 I'd use it to buy a beehive and beekeeping equipment to "save the bees"
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i am following you :) @vickyd4v3
ReplyDeleteI would spend it on a family holiday :)
Following you on twitter :)
ReplyDelete@vickyd4v3
I'm going on holiday soon so I'd love to have some extra money to bring back some great gifts and souvenirs.
ReplyDeleteI'm following on GFC
I'm following you on Twitter @FranshamLass
ReplyDeleteI'm following you on Facebook and following your Blog @FranshamLass
ReplyDeleteI would spend the money going down to England and spending some time with my folks in Norfolk. My son doesn't see his English Grandparents as they are too poorly to travel to Scotland regularly :-)
Emailed you too :-)
ReplyDeleteI am going to Florida in Sept and will be missing my Granddaughters birthday, so I would use it to buy her something special back, probably a nice princess outfit
ReplyDeletefollowing on twitter @juliefeathers
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ReplyDeleteFollowing you blog. If i won £1000 i would give half to my parents and then buy a new mobility scooter and a new carpet. I know, i know, not very adventurous.
ReplyDeletelike a lot of others I would put the money to a wee holiday with the family. By the way great prize.
ReplyDeleteI follow you :)
ReplyDeleteI think I would buy a new phone - can't justify buying one now, but if I won money then that would change!
x
I follow you on Twitter @josie301
ReplyDeleteI subscribed to your email feed too xx
ReplyDeletei am following you via GFC
ReplyDeleteif i won £100.00 it would probably go on bills to be honest or thr kids!!
ReplyDeleteWould have to be a new motorbike. I'm so sick of dragging the one I have kicking and screaming through its MOT.
ReplyDeletefollowed by email
ReplyDeleteand following via twitter (same name)
ReplyDelete(feel like one of those spammers!) Thak you for the comp and good luck on your TV debut!
ReplyDeleteFollowing your blog on GFC. If I won £1000 I would use it to help finance my 2 sons at university
ReplyDeletealso following you on twitter @boo1003
ReplyDeletefollowing you on twitter @Eliequeen
ReplyDeleteHi Elaine,
ReplyDeletefollowing your blog with GFC
If I won £1000 I'd go all out and buy postage stamps and postcards just to make sure I don't run out. Oh & top up my phone for those text comps
Good luck on your television debut
ReplyDeleteI would take my family for a weekend break and pay for all their treats
ReplyDeleteFollowing on Twitter @mfcougar
ReplyDeleteI would buy a carpet for our hallway/stairs/landing as our baby will be crawling within 7 months and I hate the idea of him crawling on the dirty bare boards currently there! @Isis1981uk on Twitter.
ReplyDeleteFollowing you on Twitter @Isis1981uk
ReplyDeletei follow the blog via GFC
ReplyDeletei ould buy a new car - or more driving lessons if i dont pass next week!
i follow on twitter (@kiki_725)
ReplyDeleteI would spend some of the money to take my mum for a spa weekend for her birthday :)
ReplyDeletefollowing @_Natalie_P
ReplyDeleteI would book a couple of days on a narrow boat
ReplyDeletefollowing as foxyowl on twitter
ReplyDeleteFollowing via Google Connect :) x
ReplyDeleteFollowing on Twitter via @zebralennon xx
ReplyDeleteAnd finally ... I'm following via email :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comp, Good Luck everyone xxx
I would spend it on my daughter as she a single mum and is starting university training as a nurse, so it would help her alot xx
ReplyDeleteFollowing you on twitter
ReplyDeleteWe are @phyllgerry
Subscribed via the email thingy too
ReplyDeleteThank you
@phyllgerry xx
I am aware blogger have lost some comments from this post, I am hoping they will all be back before friday, but if not I feel it is only fair to postpone the draw until they re-appear. hope you all agree
ReplyDeleteI think I commented earlier, all this new blog type stuff is new to me. Good luck with the TV interview, and I hope the grandchildren really enjoy watching you on TV!
ReplyDelete@stralisemiai
Without a doubt my first purchase would be a Kindle and a shed-load of e-books. Going on holiday in September and there's nothing better than lying in the sun with something good to read!
ReplyDeleteEmma L Clarke (GFC) and @emma1111111 (Twitter)
For a bonus entry I follow you on Twitter (@emma1111111)
ReplyDeleteFor a second bonus entry, I follow via email too.
ReplyDeleteFollowing your blog - Would probably spend some of the £1,000 on some extra holiday spending money.
ReplyDeleteFollowing you on Twitter @gouldie7
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ReplyDeleteIf I won £1,000, I would buy a laptop as my hubby broke my Mum's laptop and now I'm using his and he always makes his websites and now he seems lost without it so that way we'd go back to having one each. I'm following your blog with Google Connect.
ReplyDeleteI'm already following you on Twitter :) @MySonsSpongeMad
ReplyDeleteIf I won I think I would buy some designer shoes. (I have no nice shoes, tear.
ReplyDeleteFollowing your blog.
Take my little princess on a beach holiday somewhere hot hot hot! @lillyfer85
ReplyDeletefollowing on twitter @lillyfer85
ReplyDeletefollowing by email
ReplyDeletea new pair of curtains, nice expensive ones!
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following on twiiter
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subscribed to email
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following you with Google Connect
ReplyDeleteNow following you on GFC
ReplyDeleteIf I won £1000 I would spend it on a fantastic family holiday!
Now following you on Twitter
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If I won £1000, I would spend it on some new furniture as mine is grotty and my daughter's armchair is ancient, hard, and uncomfortable
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ReplyDeleteNow following you be email
ReplyDeletefollowing you on twitter @essexgirlSE
ReplyDeleteWith a £1000 pounds, I'd split it 50/50 between the mundane and the marvellous - £500 towards sensible things (paying off bills etc), and then £500 worth of comparative extravagance - a wardrobe overhaul or a dinner for my friends.
ReplyDeleteAlso following on twitter - @putters_delight
ReplyDeleteFollowing with Google Friends Connect as Maisie (M.), @maisietoo on Twitter and the first thing I would do would spend it on a new boiler!
ReplyDeleteFollowing you on twitter @maisietoo
ReplyDeleteFollowing by e-mail @maisietoo
ReplyDeleteas many of you may be aware blogger had a major problem approx 10 days ago, and they lost a lot of comments, content, etc. it also meant that any of you that liked my blog at that stage as part of the criteria for entering my comp, your likes were not registered ( or lost). I have 22 people who left comments to say they following but they are not any more due to blogger.
ReplyDeleteTo keep this competition fair to everybody I am;
a) contacting the 22 people involved and asking them to relike so they qualify to win
and
b) extending the close date for a week to allow them time to do this.
will be contacting people tonight so keep an eye on your twitter/e-mail accounts
I'd buy a new outfit to attend a wedding in a couple of months time, I have nothing to where!! honest :o)
ReplyDeleteI'd buy my boyfriend an iPad, cos I was lucky enough to win one last year, and he's very very jealous!
ReplyDeleteright messages out.
ReplyDeleteAha! I was going to fly my sis out to 'Vegas, stay in swanky hotel on the strip and drool over Barry Manilow!
ReplyDeleteBut now It's got to be something similar, involving my sis, limo, swanky hotel, drooling but Wembley and George Michael!!!!
@kohsamuirosie
If I won £1000, I would book a cottage, fuel up the truck and me, Jay and Buffy the dog would hit the road for a really relaxing week away.
ReplyDelete@almac1965
If I won £1000 with one of the lottery tickets, the first thing I would do is buy my best friend a new fridge freezer because his has been broken for over two years now!
ReplyDeleteI am following you via email.
ReplyDeleteIF I won £1000 - I would spend on:
Firstly, hire a people carrier so I could take my mum and dad who are in their late 90's on a steam train journey in Devon in the summer holidays. They have always made my dreams come true so I would like them to experience that part of uk and relive going to the beach as we used to when I was a little girl.
Secondly, it would be a treat for my young children so they would be experiencing the southern coast and they love seasides!
Thanks for the lovely prize.
I am following you on twitter and if i won a £1000 i would send my mum & Dad on holiday for their 70th birthdays ( they share their birthdays 2 weeks apart from each other )they have never ever been abroad so i would love send aboard !
ReplyDelete@craigbrown3
If I won £1000, I'd spend on an ipad for myself and another for my eldest son to stop him borrowing mine.
ReplyDeletefollowing on twitter @spanglisher
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ReplyDeleteI would fix my caravan, had it broken into and they made a right mess of it!!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm following via GFC.
ReplyDeleteThe first thing I would buy would be a blu-ray player for my front room to go with my new TV and a nice treat for each of my boys
I have just re-followed you on twitter as it keeps unfollowing people on my behalf, with no warning! @melspur
ReplyDeleteI am also following via email.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the giveaway and good luck with your 15 minutes of TV fame.
I would treat my husband to a well deserved weekend away.
ReplyDeleteAm following blog via GFC and would love to put the money towards a trip to Euro Disney with my family
ReplyDeleteAm following on Twitter
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Am following by email
ReplyDeletestuff for my grandson i adore him
ReplyDeleteI would buy a flight down to visit my mum who's been poorly - and maybe a laptop to keep up with my favourite blogs ;-)
ReplyDeleteI have signed up for emails
ReplyDeleteI am following you on twitter slbhill42
ReplyDeleteFollowing you on Google Friend Connext. I'd buy myself a fancy new DSLR camera because the one I've got is the cheapest in the range and I'm outgrowing it quickly.
ReplyDeleteI'd save it for a flight to Rio for the carnival next year. Samba party here i come!
ReplyDeleteim following on twitter
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Signed up for emails as well...
ReplyDeleteim google friend follower :)
ReplyDeleteIf I won a £1000 I think I would buy the family a years worth of cineworld unlimited cards each so we can all spend some outings having fun
Following you on twitter too... @pinkbee78
ReplyDeleteI'd buy a new cooker as when I was cleaning it today some of the rusty enamel bits fell off!
ReplyDeleteFollowing you on twitter @halkerstone. :)
ReplyDeleteI'd treat myself to a new wardrobe after losing 6st...and get my fella a few bits as well!!
ReplyDeletefollowing you on twitter @fairy2789
ReplyDeleteFollowing you on google connect. I would use the £1000 towards a family holiday so I could spend some quality time with my little ones.
ReplyDeleteFollowing you also on twitter @littlemissnau41
ReplyDeleteI follow you through GFC. We have recently moved from a 2 bed flat into 3 bed house so i would spend some of the money on pictures etc for the house, plus I would buy some more plants for the garden (already spent a fortune on plants, don't tell the hubby!) and finally I would buy my two sons a labrador puppy which I have been promising them! - @bloomingfox
ReplyDeleteI already follow you on Twitter - @bloomingfox
ReplyDeleteI follow you via email robertfox24@aol.com
ReplyDeleteenter me please, if i won the money would pay off my new sofa :)
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gfc: tinkerbelldani
daniellejordanterry@hotmail.com
i followed you on twitter: @tinkabelldani
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also follow you via email, daniellejordanterry@hotmail.com
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To be honest I could say slot of things I would do with the money but I've never had that sort of money to play with I've only ever got money and pay bills.
ReplyDeleteSo if I did win it would be a nice meal for me and the wife in London after taking in a show and a nights sleep in a hotel.
I follow on Google Friend connect.
ReplyDeleteI would spend the £1000 pound on getting me, my boyfriend, and our parents new passports, and then booking a sunny getaway!
xo
Following your blog - Jo Young
ReplyDeleteThe first thing I'd buy is an iPad as I just really want one LOL
Following on Twitter @BoostieBoo
ReplyDeleteI would buy a ipad 2 would be great for comping.
ReplyDeleteFollowing on twitter @suedong
hello there
ReplyDeleteI would buy a new laptop or new ipad to do some competitions on it. I would also pay some big bills and hopefully get a new outfit.
i have followed you twitter @greenockgirl hope that is the right link for my twitter account.
i am following your blog under my scotgirl google account.
looking forward to reading your posts
Heather