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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Beth8it!
12 hours ago
Nos da from Welsh Wales! 🐕🦺🐕🦺🐕🦺🦮
Somebody pood on the floor last night and it wasn’t me! They tried to stand on the puppy mats I had brought, just in case, but obviously forgot they had grown, so some went on the (thankfully tiled) floor. I cleaned that up, took them in the garden, then up to the paddock for half an hour, then tried to follow directions from the owner to the nearest car park to walk through the woods. Gave up on that, but found a small layby on a deserted road next to the forest so they had a runaround in the road and heather and trees - I could see a long way and it was totally empty. This afternoon stepson and girlfriend took Poppy to the beach - one part of the route was closed so they took about 1.1/2 hours to do 25 miles, following the diversion. Yesterday we (humans) had chilli for tea, today was gammon and chips. Tomorrow will be roast chicken lunchtime as girlfriend is leaving after dinner - work on Monday.
This afternoon I went out again to find a forest walk, came across an old lady with the fattest dog I’ve seen for a long time. She was heading down a track past a barrier so I pulled in and she said yes, they could go off lead, no sheep “and you can go right up there” pointing vertically up the hillside/mountainside (I come from a flat area!) . We set off, the boys found a beautiful clear stream just in from the car parking area, then we went up. And up. And up some more. And met a couple with collies coming down. ‘Is this a circular route, or just up and back?’ I asked. ‘No, go to the top and it’s downhill back to the road.’ Good, keep going. I was getting oxygen-deficient and ears popping when I finally gave up - don’t think I was far from the top, but it would have led back to the road much further over from my car, and the boys are only supposed to have about 35-40 minutes walking. It is NOT an excuse. No it’s not. Yes it is. We had a nice trog downhill, back through the stream and home about 4pm. About 15 mins in the garden playing a couple of hours later, then back to sleep after their tea. Hopefully a cleaner night tonight!
Beth8it!
an hour ago
A good night as far as it being nice and clean this morning, although I could have done without Poppy squeaking to go out at 4.30am. Still better a ten-minute tromp round the garden in the rain, in my pyjamas, than cleaning up the floor again! If they ask to go, I get up and go, whenever. Lovely morning now, and we went to the paddock 6.30am with the ball-thrower for half an hour. Breakfast and feeding, and now off to the shower.
Poppy
10 hours ago
Beth, sounds like you've had a good day. Hope the weather stays nice for you.
Little Owl 🤣🤣
Little Owl
10 hours ago
Best leave it on in case you need to dry your knickers.
tetleyt
10 hours ago
Is there a way of switching off the under floor heating?🤔
I can switch my bathrooms floor heating off.
Beth8it!
11 hours ago
Chilly in the garden at night, but not cold in the daytime. Cottage is very warm - stepson didn’t tell me he had sneaked in my tower fan in his car - lovely surprise and I left it on for the termites last night. Think there may be underfloor heating here, which is not a great idea if you have dogs, as they have nowhere to keep cool.
Little Owl
12 hours ago
They have been very good, accidents are understandable. Glad you have your bearings and have found some nice walks. Hope it is warmer than it is here.
LADY JOY
a day ago
Recently, I've found that a lot of surveys are transferred from the Bonus section to the Survey section. I.e. when I click on the Survey, there's already a tick beside it, for the same amount and also from the same survey company. Why does this keep happening please?
Saphicat
17 hours ago
As far as I believe, all your available surveys are shown listed on your survey wall (on Survey Draw page) but, they appear on the Bonus Draw page one at a time. If you complete one on the Bonus page a new one will replace it until all of the surveys listed on your wall for that day have been attempted/completed.
Some members don't bother (or even know) to click on the link to open their survey wall so, showing them on the Bonus page is a way to let them see some surveys.
Beth8it!
a day ago
Puppy tails: Well, we’ve arrived! What a drive - considering a few weeks back Storm was sick in the first half-mile in the car, and scared to get in it after that, we have just done 219 miles, with two planned stops and one that I thought we needed but didn’t. Thank goodness for Avomine tablets - work like a dream, cheap and have taken away all the stress for him. Not a peep out of any of them, until about 25 miles out, when Shadow sat up and stayed up. I assumed it was because he hadn’t done anything at the last stop, so nipped into the last service station on our route (Port Abraham) and spent another 10-15 mins trogging up and down the grass while the three of them sniffed and snuffled and did nothing again. They have had a nice run in the little paddock that has a good high fence round, stared at the sheep and looked much too interested until I persuaded them that it was in their best interest to ignore them. Reluctantly they agreed. I didn’t wallop them that hard! It may have been me growling at them that had more effect. They crashed out all evening, had another wander round the garden then decided it was very exciting to be sharing the lounge with Poppy, even if they were put out that they couldn’t share Mum’s bed, and needed five warnings to stop playing dinosaurs right next to stepson’s bedroom. More smacked bottoms and they sulkily stomped up onto the sofa instead - NOT permitted but I had put a large throw on it as I knew it was possible. All quiet on the western front at present.
Val1101
17 hours ago
Have great adventures with all the pups , try to get some relaxing time to yourself ( if possible ) x
Tudiefair
a day ago
Enjoy and hope weather is kind.
Jaffa
a day ago
You made it!
Have a lovely time.
maddadof
a day ago
Have a nice time, i would say relaxing. But that's unlikely...
Poppy
a day ago
Hope you have a great time.
Shyboy
a day ago
Glad you have all arrived safely.
FlowerPower🌺🌼🌸💐🌹🌻🌷🍄
a day ago
Hope you all enjoy your holiday Beth, you certainly deserve a nice rest but I don’t expect you’ll get one with the termites along.
Shyboy
1 days ago
By heck that £2 PMP/Walr survey went on forever - over two hours. At least I got paid.
😎👍🏼 ...9--0==✈🌞🐯
14 hours ago
I've noticed that where it says "This section should take about 2 minutes" .. if you total up all the timed sections in a survey it comes to more than the total survey time itself.
Every section starts "And Finally..." giving the impression the end is round the corner, then "just a few Q's about yourself"...."Nearly there.." keading to more demographics before the end, & possibly ending in a screenout, survey error, survey full, security=true, or could not use your answers".
Chris
14 hours ago
If you'd done A Level Psychology you'd be familiar with the work done by B.F. Skinner and the response of pigeons when the rewards they had expected for performing a particular act had become extinct ...
In effect, what we seem to be saying is that humans are no more intelligent than pigeons and arguably are less so.
trufflestu
15 hours ago
I think its because as I said people have started, so human behaviour more often than not means that people commit.
I don't remember seeing a progress bar on this one and at no point was there an indication of the percentage completed shown as a figure
Bob up and Down🟦
a day ago
Why do people keep going for so long ? I’ve done a few but 45 minutes chasing a £2 bonus that you might never be able to claim. Why ?
Barrie
a day ago
I noyiced the same as Dharma & some were badly written too or just annoyingly stupid.
Worse though was 45-50 minutes the page shut so I got nothing.
Dharma
1 days ago
I found on the survey some questions kept repeating itself and wouldn't proceed to the next one right away and therefore took longer to complete
maddadof
1 days ago
Got over half way thru, clicked the page off(my fault). Went back onto PMP site, had to start all over again. Got it right this time and paid out, so no complaints here...
Em
1 days ago
My colleague who liaises with Opinum/Walr has taken a look at the stats and has found that the completion time for this survey is indeed unusually high. He is going to report it to them.
Chocolate Spaniel
1 days ago
No it was a Walr survey, offered by PMP so it wouldn't be data harvesting, as would any other offered on this site.
trufflestu
1 days ago
Data Harvesting........
I really hope it wasn't a PMP survey, as that won't reflect very well on them if thats the case.
EDIT:-
74 minutes...... You should hold your heads in shame PMP its got your name next to it not an external company
It is Data Harvesting @ Choc Spaniel, people are offered the choice for £2 to take a 20 minute survey, they accept this based on it being £2 and 20 minutes, not 74 minutes, Walr know this and if they told you it will be 74 minutes at the start then they aren't going to get anyone completing it and won't get the data they require, therefore they are misleading and dishonestly obtaining data.
This has been a massive issue on PMP ever since Covid. I don’t know what the answer is as PMP need the revenue to support the site, but your only as good as the bad experience you have with anything and Surveys are a huge part of PMP.
The survey companies are paying lip service to PMP, by saying they don’t have the technology for this and that but they clearly have the technology to mislead people on survey lengths, screening people out once they have the information they need. If I don’t fit the demographic then I should be screened out at the start not part way through and definitely not at the end.
Lidlicker 🎀✨👀
1 days ago
Good gracious - it was certainly a long one but not 2hrs for me. Closer to 40 mins due to it being a bit slow to flip pages. What I thought was weird though was the section where we had to give our opinion on a sliding scale ...... it said if you agree with the top statement (next to the number 7) choose 1 - and if you agree to the bottom statement (next to No.1) choose 7 😳.
I read that a few times to make sure I wasn't going doollaly. Perhaps they wanted to make sure we were reading it properly
Gazlaw62
1 days ago
Just joined PMP COMPETITIONS that advertised as not asking for bank details and the first competition I entered asked for Apple Pay details, won’t be entering any more lol
😎👍🏼 ...9--0==✈🌞🐯
1 days ago
Google Ads (which are nothing to do with PMP Comps) usually have 3 vertical dots (to close them) & a triangle (to change your Ad preference) in the top right corner.
Some Google Ads on PMP Comps pages closely resemble a comp & could easily be mistaken for one.
1 days ago
Gazlaw62 What a strange experience. What was the actual competition you were trying to enter?
Em
1 days ago
It sounds like you might have been duped by a Google Ad as there are categorically no paid competitions on PMPCompetitions. If you see the ad again, please take a screenshot of it and send it to us at admin@pickmypostcode.com. If you gave away any information, please contact your bank.
We have a partner company who help us run the site, DMRi. They can be contacted here if you want to report this directly to them: https://comps.pickmypostcode.com/contact
Chocolate Spaniel
1 days ago
Take a screenshot and details and advise admin@pickmypostcode.com
I've been a member since it started and never had it happen.
Lidlicker 🎀✨👀
1 days ago
Strange - I've been doing the PMP Comps since they started & none have asked for anything .... I've just had to click on enter & confirm entry 🤔