Competitions, Free Samples and World Book Day

When you enter competitions, do surveys and request free samples the arrival of the post can be quite exciting. In fact if I don't get something interesting in the post I feel a little disappointment. However today the door knocked and the postman gave me two small packages. The first package contained a sample of Tetley's new Blend of Both Tea which I got through Tetley's Facebook page I will try these later on today. My second parcel contained a pack of Barclay's Topps Trading Cards which you get just for entering the Barclay's Ticket competition. My 6 year old son will be over the moon with these as him as all his school friends are obsessed with collecting football cards.

World Book Day is looming large on Thursday and once again letters have come home for children to dress as their favourite book characters. Last year my son went in his skeleton costume as one of the characters from Allan Ahlberg's Funnybones and my daughter went as Violet Beauregarde, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, after she had eaten the blueberry bubblegum with blue clothes and face and a hand made golden ticket.


We have decided that Sean is going as a Pirate Dinosaur from Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs, he is going to be wearing a pirate dressing up outfit, which I bought off  Ebay. He will also have green face paint to make him look like a dinosaur. However we cannot decide what my daughter can go as this year. She is 11 and so most of the books she reads have normal people in them and not characters as they do in younger children's books.

World Book Day 2011 - Funny Bones

World Book Day 2011- Violet Beauregarde

Hi

Well this is my first attempt at blogging. I hope to provide stories of my life, my children, my pets and my hobbies. I am 34 and have been married for 12 years I have 2 children. Megan is 11 and Sean is 6. I also have a gorgeous border collie called Barney who is nearly 3.

I also have an 11 year old cat called Lucky. I am going to be blogging about my hobbies and family life. My main hobbies apart from spending time with my kids are reading and entering competitions. I also love hunting out bargains. I am also trying to lose weight and constantly seem to be taking one step forward and two back or in weight terms putting 2 pounds on and losing one! I am also in the last year of my Open University Degree and I am doing two courses together which I am finding very intense so my reading for leisure has had to fall by the wayside for now, although I still managed to find time to read James Patterson's new book Private Games, well he is my favourite author!