Win a Brilliant Bundle of Books for 8-12yr olds from Puffin | #LittleStuff24
“Once in roooooyal David’s city…” Behind door number three of our 2016 Advent Calendar is a big bundle of Puffin books! Just look at that! A great big bundle of the very best new titles from Puffin this Autumn, plus the everlasting classic that is the BFG – all perfect reading for your ‘tween’ (8-12yr old). If you haven’t meandered over to the Puffin website recently then you really really should. Frankly...
Win A Gorgeous Bundle Of Pusheen! | #LittleStuff24
“Hark the Herald angels siiiiing….” Behind door two of our 2016 Advent Calendar is something a bit seriously cute – a gorgeous bundle of Pusheens! I KNOW!! With over 9 million Facebook likes, Pusheen the cat is the star of her own animated web comic series (which looks like a self-run blog). Pusheen is a domestic short-haired grey tabby with all nine lives fully intact. The posts feature the chubby cat in a variety of cute and...
Win a Holiday in Brittany with Novasol! | #LittleStuff24
“Sleigh bells riiiiiing, are you listening….” It’s the 1st of December and the season has truly begun – the first door of #LittleStuff24, our 2016 Advent Calendar of Competitions, is now open! Behind door No.1 is an unbelievable prize from NOVASOL; win a family holiday in a lovely NOVASOL cottage in Brittany for May Half Term (27 May – 3 June 2017)! NOVASOL, Europe’s largest self-catering provider, has over 48...
Win £240 of logs to keep you warm this winter with Certainly Wood!
Regular readers will remember that last year we finally had a woodburner installed. Oh, the deep, contented joy. We’ve always had a gas fire in the living room, so it’s not like we were without a focal point or warmth… but I don’t think anyone will disagree that there’s just something about a real fire. I’m not ashamed to admit that over the last few weeks I’ve been eyeing the fire and...
Win 1 of 3 pairs of Just Sheepskin slippers – worth up to £85!
Oh slippers how I love you. It’s an odd thing – as a child I hated slippers with a deep and wide loathing. If my feet were chilly, I resorted happily to socks – the thicker and fluffier the better. but slippers? UGH. No. All the way through my teens and twenties I stuck to my guns – slippers were bad bad ugly things. But then I got given a pair for Christmas, and I politely had to wear them. What a revelation!...
Thorpe Park Fright Nights Tickets Giveaway!
We had the dubious pleasure of visiting Thorpe Park’s Fright Nights recently. I say dubious not because it’s a bit of an iffy event – it’s so not. It’s frankly brilliant at the whole scare-you-pantless thing, which is why I was naturally dubious about going.But the event was all part of our Merlin Annual Pass Ambassador Big Plan, and a long-promised event to No.1 son – so I really needed a solution...