Jools Tinsley, a 62-year-old retiree from Caister near Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, won £885.71 on the free online lottery, Pick My Postcode!

Jools, who has lived in Norfolk for the majority of her life, is retired from local government and now runs an Etsy shop, creating handmade crafts. Jools first joined Pick My Postcode in 2015, and finally after years of checking daily and building her bonus through surveys, her postcode was picked on the Main draw, winning her an amazing £885.71, completely for free.
When asked how it felt to win, Jools said: “It’s awesome. It will allow us to treat our close family.” Jools said the win was a particularly welcome surprise after what had been a difficult day. She planned to go to bed early after she’d had treatment that day on a retinal tear, she decided to check her emails, and after seeing her daily email reminder was shocked to log in and see that she had in fact won the main draw. When asked how she planned to spend the winnings, Jools said: “We’d already decided to go camping together so as well as covering the pitch costs we’ll look after the cost for everything.”
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Poppy
12 hours ago
I've been having a go at the Mine Sweeper game, but it keeps freezing up. Has anyone else played it and had this problem?
Em
in 22 minutes
Thank you Poppy. I have just tested it and on a laptop you can switch between flags and the spade without any issue, so it must be an issue for smaller screens. I will pass this on to the Game Provider. Thank you for your time.
Poppy
23 minutes ago
Thanks for testing it Em. Yes, that's what happened to me. I did get to play about 3 or 4 games right to the end. Also, a few times it froze earlier so I couldn't press the start button.
I'm using an android phone, Nokia G42 on Chrome.
Em
7 hours ago
I just tested it. The spade clearing spaces worked and then I put flags where I thought the mines would be. When I went to switch back to spade, it then froze on me. Is this what happened for you?
Please describe it and let me know your device make & model and browser. Then I can pass it on to the Game Provider, along with my own Android phone details & the fact that I was using Chrome.
I'll test it on my work laptop during office hours.
Beth8it!
12 hours ago
Puppy tails:
Today was quite quiet in the morning - the ‘early alarm clock’ Poppy didn’t go off until 5.30, so that’s an hour later than yesterday. Another session in the garden in the pouring rain, not helped by me failing to notice the overhanging pine tree and getting a soaking down my head and back. However, the good part was that none of the termites wanted to stay out in it either, and shot back in when called. Back to bed to dry off for an hour, then up and out to the paddock for half an hour’s mad chasing about. Fairly quiet morning, then at lunchtime stepson came up to the paddock as well, and after dinner we went to Pendine Sands beach. It was grey, blustery but dry, and we timed it so we arrived as the tide was coming in so they coukd swim safely - only to find that we were restricted to a fairly small area of beach as there were signs up with red flags - military firing? Something like that, and No Metal Detecting! That meant that the huge beach was out of reach, with lots of people exercising their dogs and being close together instead of having a bit of space around them. Poppy was very good, coming back as soon as she was called, but the boys and Indi kept going off to say hello, causing major panic and frustration for stepson - ‘You can’t let them go off and scare people, you’ve got to teach them not to do it!’ Um…how? By keeping them on leads? Or by making it far more fun to be with me than going off on their own? They only had a quick sniff, waggy tails, circled round then came galloping back when I blew their whistle. Dog trainer told us in class that getting stressed and uptight about it sent the wrong signal to the dogs and also frightened the other people, as if your dog is a threat. Staying calm and relaxed lets them know your dogs are being unthreatening. The pups are only 7 months, and on the whole they were really good - I was cross with Indi for disobeying, though - she knows better.
Anyway, heading home we were about 5 miles to go and our route was closed with a diversion. Satnav got very upset and kept trying to send us back down the road that had been closed, so I turned it off, followed the diversion then turned it back on, finding we were on a totally different route from the outward trip. Stepson cooked tea (steak pie, mash and peas) and I had a bit of coffee cake that I had brought (Tesco coffee cake, was £4.80, now on offer ar £2. I bought four). Not sure what we are doing tomorrow, maybe a different beach, as the water was still too shallow for them to swim. Big surf, kite-surfers and surf boarders very happy, and my walking boots were brilliant, until the incoming waves came quicker than I thought and went over the top. Soggy drive home.
Em
7 hours ago
Bit of a paddle and making new friends sounds fun!
Poppy
12 hours ago
Beth, thanks for the puppy tails, it sounds like you are having a good time, and nice meals!
I went camping in Pendine with the school in the final year of primary school, it's a beautiful area.
Chris
15 hours ago
Are the (mainly? exclusively?) men who have been protesting in Dover and Portsmouth while concealing their identities behind masks and balaclavas in any way related to those people who objected to some Muslim women from some branches of the faith wearing the niqab or burqa because it hid their faces?
And are those people who were arrested for assaulting the Police in any way related to those people who have called for tougher 'law and order' and the deporting of offenders who hold foreign citizenship?
Asking for a friend, you understand.
Hopeful2B
32 minutes ago
The world has always been mad. We just hear more about it, these days.
CarolineC
13 hours ago
And did you see that elderly couple beating up those protestors at the Reform conference, with Farage laughing in the background? Unbelieveable! And more old people were cheering them on. Makes me ashamed to be old myself. The world's gone mad right now as far as I can see. :-(
Sandy Shore
13 hours ago
Whataboutery.
Little Owl
14 hours ago
I suspect they are related to the morons in Middlesbrough who "mourned" the death of a young person by setting fire to cars - some idiot said people had the right to mourn in their own way. In the same news bulletin, there was a local volunteer driving much needed cars and aid to Ukraine (the same type of cars that were being set on fire).
Kenny b
15 hours ago
A very philosophical friend of mine asked me what would Earth be like without art.
"Eh" I said !! 😜😜
Hopeful2B
31 minutes ago
It took me a minute to 'get it.' 😀
samandi
11 hours ago
😄
A Nick Name
12 hours ago
👍
Poppy
14 hours ago
🤣🤣
maddadof
15 hours ago
:-) :-)