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It was a 145 mile round trip. It just seemed the right thing to do. We've all journeyed with Emma and Simon

Well done Bruce8 on behalf of all who live way too far away🤗

Yes that was a lovely thing to do Bruce and thank you for being our presence 🤗🤗

Dropped one more place today as Shaledodger overtook me. Bound to happen with only 3p a day now (except for the political surveys)

Thanks to Bruce8 for representing the community at Simon's funeral today. Also grateful that Chris was able to attend.

Did that today Jaffa, said they hadn’t received the communication from the GP!

Considering that would be an electronic exchange & he rang me last Tuesday to say he’d sent it & I received a text info. the previous day, I find it rather unlikely that they have no record of it.

Looks like I’ll have to join the endless queue for the GP surgery!

Hope Devon Auntie will be happy to see you & you can enjoy your visit.🤞

A better day in Falmouth than expected.Shanties over so had a long walk and a final meal together before we go on to Devon and the others back to Bristol.

Not looking forward to the next week but you never know…

We have so little mail now I don’t notice how long it takes.I hope you get your appointment soon Flower if not try calling the dept if you can.

Not too windy today, I expected rain but we didn't get any

It's still windy here.

Susie I am sure all of us could say that with the benefit of hindsight.If we learn from our mistakes that is all we can do.🤗🤗

Don’t beat yourself up Susiewoo2, all of us have made mistakes at some time or another, you’re doing your very best & it certainly doesn’t sound like he’s missing out!

I hope you get to use your passport too & have a lovely summer & you never know, you could have another win in the future🤞Big hugs from me 🤗🤗🤗🤗

F.P. I am so grateful for my win....I would give my right arm to see that my boy gets some chances and experiences in life. Stupidly I made some bad life choices which is why I am in this position now. Live and learn. I am working hard to make things right.

New passport regulations tend to relate to using them rather than getting them.

Additional security for those travelling who are not from the EU. You are required to provide finger prints using their scanner and have a photo taken. These are then compared when you next arrive or leave an EU country. Supposed to be quicker once you've been scanned once however it makes little difference because of the queue of other people having theirs done.

Yes we visited the biggest model railway I'd ever seen. It was the purpose of the visit really. My son told me he would like to see it last year originally got the German city wrong, however remembered it was Hamburg before I booked the plane tickets. We first checked when there was availability, then booked the air plane, found a hotel and booked minitur wonderland.

The other days were so we could see a bit of Hamburg. Its changed a bit since I was last there - though that was almost 40 years ago.

Wow! Susiewoo2 - hope he doesn’t get held up, due to the new passport regs. I think it’s great 👍 especially when they don’t have siblings, my son always went on lots of trips with school & scouts etc.

It makes them more self reliant, well done you for financing them all, hope you still have some left for Christmas. 👍

Good job you had a win then Susie!

I've just used half my winnings on a first passport for little man (who is officially now taller than me) a renewed one for me and 4.. yes 4 school trips for him before the end of July 😮😮😮

Malc_H, you need to be careful there are rumours that they are going to replace our slate passports.

Malc_H. 🤣

You would have to be young to do that Enver.

"Bruce9 - did you visit the worlds biggest model railway?

Many years ago in late 70's I went to Hamburg (20 hour crossing) on the Prins Hamlet car ferry from Harwich (bargain £15 weekend trip) with a schoolfriend, it departs every 2nd day.. & only has 4 hours (8am to midday) turnaround each end to get into & see the city from the Landungsbrucken where the ship docked.

It was nearly time for the return & we wandered back towards the ship, but seeing it in the distance suddenly realised it was about 3 miles away, you never seen us run so fast in our lives along the Reeperbahn in the St. Pauli neighborhood, must have broke the 4 minute mile ... just made it & got onboard as the gangplank & ropes were being cast off, the ship was starting to move but they pulled it back in for a minute till we had out tickets & passports checked by an official standing there & were allowed onboard.

We wondered where another 3 older friends we met on the outward trip were as they did not appear on the ship till later in the afternoon after cruising down the river. They had missed the midday departure, one of them spoke fairly good german, they took the train to Cuxhaven (on the mouth of the river Elbe) & bribed the pilot boat to bring them aboard when it took our river pilot off, before the overnight crossing of the North Sea..

We got into Bournemouth today without any problems, even though we are from Yorkshire.

It seems to be causing lots of problems and the main holiday season is yet to start.

Glad you survived it.

Back from Hamburg - though I did wonder if we were going to make it. Arrived at airport over 3 hours before departure to allow for the additional checks.

Getting through baggage checks was a real scrum and if we hadn't been for our flight being an hour late leaving we'd have still been stuck in passport control as it left (because of these new checks). However when we got through they'd already started boarding.

Thank you.

Today just us and the group went on a restored little passenger ferry up and down the river Fal stopping by jetties and outdoor pub gardens singing a few songs at each one.They have only done it this year but because the weather is glorious it was well received and I had a nice boat trip.

Well done to evveryone concerned.

Great total, congrats to Mr J & his pals👏

You’ve obviously had an interesting & varied experience, hope there’s not too long a queue at the airport.

Sounds like you have both had a good time.Safe travels.

Day 5 - a slower day today to allow our feet to convert back from what felt like blocks of cement.

Went back to the chocolate shop to buy a few extra items to bring home. Purchased a tin of cocoa. Probably haven't had any for about 45 years however it was made there and everything tried there ( apart from the original bean & sap and the beer) have tasted good so I though I'd give it a go.

We then went on to a model railway shop where my son found somethings t buy, fortunately these didn't go on my credit card. We then stopped for a very light late lunch and returned to the hotel.

In the evening we had a 3o min walk to the Boothaus a more up market restarant for a meal then walked back to the hotel.

Tomorrow we head back to Heathrow.

Sorry Jax 😔

Well done Jaffa👍 & Bruce8👍

We've had a little light rain, though having a bit of a rest day. Returned to a couple of places and will go out this evening. No surveys so far

Enjoy your time away, Jaffa and Bruce.

Hi Jaffa, I went because my son asked me to take him. He was very happy with what he saw and knew I had taken many photos on 2 of the cameras.

We get on well together and have similar interests apart from model railways! Also as he speaks a little German that also helps.

Ok so we all need to head to Germany to get surveys!I hope your main event lived up to expectations.

Falmouth was at least dry and no hold ups but very wet on the way down.

We spent this evening being a mock audience to Mr J and his group while they practised for tomorrow evening.

I'm doing marginally better here in Hamburg than I do in Surrey.

More walking today,in fact walked for hours.

Headed off to the main event and arrived a little early so visited an amazing coffee shop close by. The beans arrived by a ceiling tube and were dropped into the roaster. They were cooled and then taken for storage until they were needed for grinding. The roaster was in the middle of the room with tables around it.

We then headed next door to Miniatur Wunderland, a vast miniture railway with several country zones set over several floors of a warehouse. My son really enjoyed it. I was there because I have better cameras.

Afterwards we returned to the place we ate & drank at 2 days ago before plodding back to the hotel. Time for an early night.

Did rain quite heavily however we were looking at the trains. By the time we came out everywhere was wet, though not raining.

Nothing for a long time apart from the political ones. Shaledodger will overtake me within the week.

Thank you both. :)

Raining here too, well done👏 good luck with the next 100 places👍

Go gal, go

I've enjoyed several different chocolate beers in the past.

Keeping us in suspense Bruce?I hope you both enjoy whatever it is you are doing.

Day 3: still using shank's pony. We did a tour of a chocolate factory and personalised our own bars. After the tour my son spotted bottles of chocolate beer & wine and decided we needed to buy 1 of each with the line "what could possibly go wrong?". When he said "we" should buy it it was of course down to bank of Dad.

He became concerned about my health a little later and found a place for us to sit down and have a beer, so he could check that I'd really said I wanted to go shopping!

We did eventually proceed however I was unable to find what I was after so we returned to hotel. Went out again in the evening and went to a steak house then returned to hotel and tried the chocolate beer. It only took me 1 sip to know I never wanted this again. The wine was actually drinkable.

Tomorrow is the main event, the reason he wanted me to bring him here

Thanks FP - plus 18p, every penny counts

From the FAQs: https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/96-how-many-people-are-registered-to-my-postcode

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That is great, thank you. Is there a way of finding out how many people in my postcode have an account, please?

No, you don't automatically leave Holiday Mode when you log back in again. You need to untick the box in your notification settings. You can do this by heading to 'My Account' in the top right hand corner and then clicking / tapping on 'Notifications'. I have also linked it here: https://pickmypostcode.com/account/#notifications.

Just to clarify, turning on 'Holiday Mode' removes your personal entry into the draws. However, please be aware that if there are active members with the same postcode as you, your postcode could still come up as a winner while the mode is on but you will not be eligible to claim while you have the mode on.

I believe you come off holiday mode automatically as soon as you next check the site. Someone will confirm this.

Understood, thank you. That is good to know, as I would hate for someone to go on holiday, then forget to unholiday and then mine would be on constant holiday lol

Not if there is another active member who has registered it.

If you are the only member who has registered a particular postcode and you put your account into holiday mode, then that postcode will not be drawn.

Going on holiday mode doesn't mean the postcode won't come up, though, does it?

Look under winners results on the task bar.Did you not put yourself in holiday mode?You can do that from your account.

Sorry to hear about this, Jaxster. It must be so frustrating when you have waited so long. I hope you do not have to wait too long for the rescheduled appointment. Make the most of your week off.

Try to make the most of the week off to relax and get well.I did not realise you were waiting so long so can only hope it quicker this time..read and note Mr Starmer!

Hope the antibiotics do some good Jax, it’s always a worry when things get postponed, I hope you get another appointment asap.🤗

At least you can have a few days rest, maybe do a few surveys before awl catches you.😊

Apparently the anaesthetist said if I sneezed post surgery if could cause bleeding... death by sneezing, that is one for the epitaph.

Home from the GP. He noticed my tonsils looked a bit swollen. He asked if I had trouble swallowing...nope! Does it hurt to talk... some people would probably wish it did. haha! He said if I was 27 and not waiting for surgery he would have told me to ride it out. But seeing as I'm 5-typing error and waiting for surgery, here have some antibiotics! He has also given me a fit note for all of this week so I can relax now. Though tres annoyed that my surgery was postponed. I've been waiting for this surgery for 2 years. Gawd knows what else its affecting while I wait.

Sorry to hear your surgery has been delayed Jax, sounds like you can’t win, if the condition they hope to correct is causing the symptoms stopping them from doing the surgery, you’d think someone could make the decision to continue but it’s probably a health & safety issue that they have to abide by.

Hope your GP will be able to help.

Oh Jax don’t feel too bad.I have a thyroid issue and know because it’s endocrine related it can mess with lots of things.

It’s irritating to have the surgery delayed but I am sure they can get it sorted out.If you are feeling anxious that can mess things up too.

Good luck thinking of you.

Hope everything turns out good for you Jax...

Hi Everyone,

I was meant to have my parathyroid surgery tomorrow but thanks to coming down with something on the weekend it has been postponed.

I did go in for my pre-surgery blood tests and ECG yesterday. The girl in pre-assessments who rang me this morning said the notes from the anaesthetist said it needed to be postponed and the girl said some of my blood tests were "deranged" (I may file a complaint about the use of that word), and there were some abnormalities with my ECG. Dr Google tells me hyperparathyroidism can affect the heart beat because of all the calcium that is in my blood.

She suggested I go see a GP about what I'm suffering. Of course I haven't been taking anything because in the lead up to the surgery I was told to stop taking practically all my meds. Going down to see my GP at 3:40 today.

Feeling all very glum about it.

Sounds a packed day Bruce.

Went to the maritime museum today. We started on "deck 9" and worked our way down to deck 0. Newest shipping at the top and worked down though several eras. Lots to see we could have spend many more hours there than the 4 we gave.

Went on to a local brewery and tried some of the beers made there and also had an evening meal. Then headed back to the hotel. Used shank's pony today.

I waited all day to get rejected sans payment from three surveys.Back to normal I think!😂

Hi Enver, the foxgloves, sunflowers & hollyhocks all usually germinate quite easily & quickly, though it’s getting a bit late now, unless you plant them August/Sept for planting out next year - possibly still get some of the sunflowers in though.

I’ve never grown any pumpkin seeds, so can’t help with that. We’ve got strawberries growing, we’ve had good crops from them in the last couple of years but it’s been quite wet here this month so the s&s’s proliferate & they’ll probably get to them first.☹️

Re Livingston Daisies, they’re not as fragile as they look, but not fully hardy in northern climes.

🌱I have some foxglove, sunflower🌻 & hollyhock🌸 seeds to plant, they grow quite well here, but our landscapers seem to hoe everything over that's coming up now & then, maybe the lady friend will have more luck with them in her pots. I tried scattering poppy seeds on public wasteland but nothing came of them.

Strawberries🍓 on my balcony get a bit windswept, & birds get them before ripe enough to eat.

Livingston daisies🌼 are wee rainbow things, someone once grew one in a wee pot indoors & showed us, fragile but very pretty.

Would like to bury some pumpkin🎃 seeds somewhere in the undergrowth round our commmunal gardens too, (big plants like gourds or marrows with massive yellow flowers which we grew at boarding school in Yorks), but they may not survive winter as too wet here, or squirrels & snails/slugs might take them, has anyone ever grown them?

Thank you Flower it will be changeable…I do hate that kind of weather.

Our Hollyhocks sadly died off a couple of years ago, I think the wind did for them, they seemed to break or bend every year & gradually their numbers decreased + I don’t think they liked clay soil- so didn’t plant anymore.

Hope yours manage to flower, & resist the wind.

The foxgloves are pretty tall & they’re taking a battering this year but seem more resilient.

Hopefully Falmouth won’t be quite as windy for your trip.

Where possible we ask members to use their current postcode. This is because some prizes and features on the site are only available to members using their correct address. This includes the golden postcodes referral competition and the survey integrations, but there are likely to be others in future. We strongly prefer that members use their own postcode.

Please use the instructions that Choc Spaniel has linked from the FAQs to change it if/when you move as this is the only way to keep your bonus on your account.

It's your membership number that's in the draws, so it doesn't matter which of your postcodes you decide to link to your account. The bonus you have built up also remains linked to your account, whichever postcode you decide to use. Do feel free to start looking for a new house without any worries. 😊👍

It's in the FAQ that you are encouraged to read when you join.

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/31-how-do-i-change-my-email-address-or-postcode

It’s your choice if you want to change the postcode to the new address or keep the old one.

As long as you only have 1 - it doesn’t matter which.

You can keep your old postcode or change it in your account details.

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oh wonderful. Well done Mylo.

Mrs.West5 - Myloguinness has won a Flash Draw today, 9/6. He has commented on the Survey Draw page.

Well done Beth👍

Big jump today (or will be, by tomorrow) as I have had quite a few surveys and lots and lots of screenouts!

Excellent, thank you both. Nor me jaffa. Up 21 today, yay.

The £5 Flash Draw happens daily. It or they are only shown to those accounts who are randomly selected as a winner of that draw each day. That is between 5-10 people each day and they could be anywhere on site, in any ad slot. This is why they go unclaimed so often, though we have had a few claimed recently which is nice. Many people just check the draws and don’t scroll down all the way or check every page.

This FAQ article has more information:

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I did, right back at the beginning when they first started. There was an info box telling you what to look out for, I scrolled down the page & was amazed to see one. Click! £5 in my PP account.

Not me.

Hope you enjoy Hamburg, it’s not somewhere I’ve been, did the event live up to your sons expectations?

Same from me.

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Have a good time both of you.

We are in Hamburg so my son can get to an exhibition he's interested in.

I have been to Hamburg before though the last time was almost 40 years ago.

Where are you Bruce8 ?

Was chucking it down when we left Heathrow. A little warmer here

Flower its kilts and cats wearing combat gear today!Never a dull moment where the ads are concerned….

Tell Mr F he has competition 😂😂

Hope your teefs are ok. I don't want that weather we had two weeks ago back. I felt like I was living in an oven! Just something in between, please, weather.

Dentist wasn’t too bad, bit of a long session & might need to lose one of the back teeth.

Hope you enjoy the festival & the weather is favourable 👍

ps no surveys here either.☹️

Edit - got one late/early & completed 👍

No Flower.

I hope your trip to the dentist was ok?

We are off to Falmouth for the festival on Thursday and the weather is still not certain as usual so it’s pack for two seasons again!

Have you found 1 yet Jaffa?

Glad to hear it, Jaffa.

I had a very nice holiday, thanks FP and Jaffa, though the weather did deteriorate a bit towards the end of it. Didn't let that spoil it though. I haven't had a chance to get back into surveys yet, but I will before long.

Glad all well with you hope you had a good holiday.

Welcome back Fubsy, hope you had a good holiday, we’ve missed your cheerful comments & additions to the bonus list- as you can see we’re having a bit of a slow weekend.😇

Thanks Susiewoo2, 👍

Thanks for your kind thoughts from a few days ago FP. You were right, I was on holiday. I'm back home now, Not ill, thankfully, just didn't do any surveys while I was away, and have only just caught up with the comments.

Enjoy your dinner 😋

Thanks flowerPower, and well done SnowQueen.

It sure is Suziewoo, I love a hyperfocus and this is my new thing, Ha! Thanks Barrie, just keep plugging me lovely. x

If you have the time, it's quite addictive Mrs.West5 😁

Keep going ladies, I'm going backwards.

Keep at it Mrs.West5, you’re doing great 👍 If you’re averaging 37 places a day then you will definitely get to your goal with time to spare.

Well done ! I have gone up 5 spaces which is a lot for me 😇

They did ask me once to send them a photo of the till reciept, I told them the reciept was too long & laptop cams were not good enough to read the faint bits of a reciept on a photo. They then admitted their computer could generate a copy of my receipt they could read, (they were just too lazy to get it up & look, or were trying to put me off claiming something I was entitled to).

I suppose they expect people to check on their mobile & screenshot it at the checkout. They’d have irrefutable proof then, obviously penalises older folks who don’t have or use mobiles.

Once you scan your Nectar card & the bonus item(s) through the checkout, it vanishes off the website bonus point list list before I get home. I put how many points on my shopping list & total up what I got on the till reciept, so it's going to be a long conflab with an asian on online chat if they differ,... (I bet they can still see the points breakdown, but we can't).

It would seem so Enver🙃- congrats on the bargains. That’s sneaky of them- the Nectar Points!

I gave up on all of them after Tesco, devalued their’s and Boots were taken over by a US conglomerate & swiped all the savings from everyone’s cards, threw them all in the bin & refuse to sign up for anything anywhere now.

Just you then FP. Mostly very cloudy here, but sunny in FK she said. I went to Sainsbury's as it was dry, but came back damp as it was drizzling when I left the shop. Liberated some early reduced bargains & a small bucket of bonus Nectar points.

I notice they've done away with the points breakdown on the Nectar website, too many bonus points were being missed despite purchasing the item, & people were complaining, but now we can't even see what's missing, so can only try to agree the total credited.

Free virtual hugs 🤗 to anyone who needs them.

Thanks Jaffa & Barrie, it’s probably just me but I’m glad I’ve not been annoying you😇

Your comments don't annoy me FlowerPower but although I appreciate them you shouldn't feel pressured into make them.

CS I felt just the same.I do get a few surveys at the moment but when I hear others mention surveys I often think “why did I not get it”.

Logic only known to the god of surveys I guess?

Hope things improve.

Of course I can Flower don’t want you to feel got at just appreciated.Nuff said and hugs🤗🤗

Off to see ABBA Voyage tomorrow and no I am not dressing up!

It's been over 10 days since I've even been offered anything now, and well before that with the usual issues. The only scoring ones are political. It would be interesting if I could understand why. I am a member of a number of other survey companies and unusual to be screened out of any.

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No hurry. I just hope everything's OK with you.

No problem Marie they’ve helped to take my mind off things recently. Sorry, still not got round to sending in the other surveys. It might take me a while.

FP, they're always appreciated, but don't ever feel obliged to post these updates.

Thanks Cazj49 - glad you enjoy the updates, as Jaffa says you can always put an emoji if you want to.

You can simply comment by leaving an emoji if you want to.👍

Not for the first time, after reading an update from FP, have I wished there was a ‘thumbs up’ or some kind of ‘like’ symbol to show her daily accounts are being read and appreciated.

I wonder if there is a chance of this?🤔

Thank you for the time and effort you put into keeping us informed FlowerPower. 🤗

Ok all, message received!

Lithops are odd things.

Have a great holiday.

HI FP, stop this saying sorry. I think we are all grateful that you take your time to post an update. You don't have to do it however you choose to do it so the timing is not important.

Completed my main planting for this year, unless anything dies or needs to be lifted.

Need to get back to the greenhouse to thin out the Lithops (they are the plants described as the living stones) , I have about 50 to get into individual pots.

I'll be airborne on Monday, allowing my son to fulfil another of his bucket list

Was just thinking the same as Jaffa and Barrie, I'm sure we all enjoy reading your updates but you are under no time constraints whatsoever 🥰

Yes ditto Barrie we love your updates but only if you have time.I hope you start feeling a bit better and don’t put yourself under pressure.

Hugs🤗🤗

You owe us nothing so there is no need to apologise.

Yes, special wishes to Nokey Blokey. Hope reading Em's sad news about Simon isn't too depressing for those currently battling nasty diseases - you know the PMP Brigade are behind everyone who needs a bit of support and virtual hand-holding.

Thanks Jaffa, I did event. doze off early a.m. managed a couple of hours then awake again.

Hopefully it will get better as time goes on.

Mr F is a real DIY king.Can I borrow him sometime?

Glad to see Bruce is moving on with a survey or two.

Hugs to you and hoping you get some sleep🤗😴🤗