I hope that Indi's paw is better soon.

The lucky dips are instant wins, the ones with questions have an end date, so get it wrong and your not entered for that day.

....... found it 😁. https://comps.pickmypostcode.com/rules.php

Hi Sammy + I think you mean on the competition site. I understand that if you don't get a question correct, you don't get included in that days 'pot'. Those prizes have an end run date so, all of your correct entries, from other days before the closing date, are included in a the pot &, after the closing date, 1 or more winners are selected from that pot.

However, the lucky dip draws (or your own selected numbers) work differently - those prizes are won when someone matches the 'preset' answer so, they could run indefinitely 🙃

Yes I remember the big panel fence of 1914, or am I thinking of the war. I had to laugh when I read the bit about claiming off the neighbours insurance. If only all insurance worked that way. Insurance is supposed to reduce risks, but I've found the risk is in paying for insurance that will never pay out. I'm starting to get to an age where I'm more inclined to risk it though. I recently had AI scan the whole deeds to my new place and went through it in detail as to what it all meant for me personally and what parts I was and wasn't involved in. It was pretty amazing. Between it and myself we worked out that the deeds actually state each of three flats and a shop all pay certain proportions for any damage to roof, drains, chimneys etc, but in fact one of the three is mine and due to the way others have been sold the deeds leave me with no responsibility for anything. In fact in Scottish law I probably wouldn't get away with that but interesting to see how the deeds proportion it all. And possibly in England I might well get away with it if it had happened here.

Luckily we have a bungalow too, so we’re sheltered by our neighbour’s big panel fence and their house. We had (previously) 14 pine trees on our boundary between us - three were down on the garage, smashing my hay store but luckily missing the stable (empty!), and some landed on their side, I suppose due to the vortex. The insurers (Commercial Union) tried saying we had to claim off our neighbour’s insurance, until I pointed out that was them, too, which removed any delays. We had to get a crane in for the trees, salvage what we could of the Compton garage (24’x20’) and were told we could sell it. In the next storm, 1990, we had the chimney down through the flat room and one of the remaining trees down which fell into the garden through husband’s brand new railway shed, completed the previous weekend and he was going to move his layout in the following weekend - lucky or what! The tree landed literally a foot short of stepdaughter’s bedroom - no damage done but she burst into tears when she saw it.

What about The Great Wind when old Harold got blown into a quarry?

Studlands Park Avenue, Newmarket suddenly seemed less appropriately named with about two thirds of the trees down.

I was living in Eastbourne at the time, 7 months pregnant and in between selling and buying a house. I was not sure I would have one to sell or buy, but luckily neither suffered any serious damage.

Almost slept through (also in Kent) but woken by our dog and cats who were really upset. Went to check on them and noticed our favourite apple tree was in next door's garden! All the trees along the avenue where we lived had blown down, luckily missing people, houses & vehicles but somehow my mother had managed to get through on her very early start to work then had to abandon her car in the next road and walk back home. Having no power we hadn't realised just how bad it was until later in the day; walked to the shops and saw the chaos with no traffic lights working, and none of the shops had electricity either. The lovely thing was everyone mucked in to help clear up since we were all unable to get cars out of driveways for work!

Only three houses in our road were damaged out of about 50 and ours was one of them. The road curved and the houses were built in groups of six around the curve. The three were the southern side of pairs of semis and the wind just caught us. We lost lots of tiles off the roof but the next house along was a different design and the chimney crashed through the roof, attic and into the bedroom. Luckily our neighbours got out without any injuries.

I slept through it in Wimbledon and knew nothing about until I opened the front door to go to work. The street was carpeted with a layer of fresh green leaves, all ripped from the trees by brute force. On the walk to the station every brick gate pillar that had had a 'For Sale' /'Sold'/'To Let' sign fastened to it had been ripped out by the foundations and was lying across the pavement. The world looked quite surreal.

I don't remember anything happening close to us.

I've got that Vicar of Dibley scene running through my head now.

I remember it! I lived in Kent & we got hit badly. I managed to sleep through a lot of it, but we woke up to chimney pots , tiles, trees etc down! I went to school in Sevenoaks where 6 of the 7 oak trees came down too! Was scary, especially as a child at that time.

That was very lucky capthugeca. 🙂

We slept right through it. Woke up the following morning to discover that all the trees in our road had blown over and were resting in the roofs of neighbouring houses. Fortunately the tree that had been outside our house until the week before had been replaced by the council with a lamppost.

We counted ourselves very blessed.

It wasn’t too bad where we are but some friends in West Sussex had their gable end collapse onto their eldest son’s bedroom. They had to dig him out and he was fine. They were out of their lovely house for many months, while it was being fixed.

I was living in Dublin from May 87, iIRC it was the first year for a long time they had a flurry of snow despite being sheltered to the west by mountains, looking out my 3rd floor window everything was white.,

I was working a night shift in Central London, and my wife called my workplace to see if I might be able to come home because part of one of the chimneys on the house had collapsed and come through the roof.

I drove the 50 miles home during the height of the storm at about 4.30AM - among other things, I saw a huge advertising board ripped from its moorings and frisbee across the road about fifty yards ahead of me, I saw distant power cables blowing against each other and sending huge showers of sparks everywhere, I was sitting at traffic lights in Battersea when the power cut out and everything was plunged into darkness, I narrowly avoided driving into a fallen tree on a darkened section of the A3, and as I approached home, I went over a flyover on which I started in the middle lane, and was suddenly blown across to the outside lane and ended up hugging the crash barrier.

Dodging countless dustbins and other small objects that were being blown all over the place was rather like being in some sort of video game or action movie. Certainly a drive home I'll never forget...

Yes, I remember. Fortunately we were living in a bungalow at the time so being low and amongst other buildings kept us safe. However a tree was blown down on the other side of the road making the traffic all have to go round it making a right mess of our grass verge.

I know, Em, that you need to find new ways of keeping revenue coming in and I fully appreciate that. I wasn't moaning - just giving a bit of feedback as I'm sure others will find it annoying too. Funnily enough, the Video Draw one has never annoyed me as the postcode gets revealed pretty quickly. This one seemed to go on a bit. I'm sure I'll get used to it though. Keep up the good work PMP team! :-)

I have been seeing this for about a week but apart from (at first) wondering what it was, it disappears off the screen very quickly. It can't add more than two seconds to wait time to see the mini draw.

Hi Caroline. Just think of it as no different to one of the video ads before the winning postcode of the Video Draw and featured video are shown. Or having to answer a survey within our Survey Draw first.

I am sorry that it's annoying, but we have to find new ways of making revenue. We're still not back to pre-pandemic prize amounts, after all.

Just saw your comment below CS so deleted it… thanks!

So far then I am actually lucky!

It's simply a further way of trying to generate more advertising revenue. It does only last a few seconds, and, further down these comments, you will see that Niall has managed to block the Temu URL, which is a great relief. Just scroll and check a few comments while the ad shows.

@Lilliwen, it's been rolled out to a few members to test if there are any problems before releasing it to all.