Pick My Postcode’s Stackpot Draws

I have an unusual first name, as does Mr. M and we always have to spell our names and explain how to say them, which either makes them memorable or instantly forgettable, but as a result I always try to make a point of remembering peoples’ names, mostly with success, but not always 😕

Like CS but sometimes can't remeber my own name!

Used to claim "I have a good memory for Names and Faces, unfortunately they are in jars at the side of my bed!"

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Have to meet them a few times before actually remembering.

Sorry, who are you?

I'm afraid it's just the nature of a random draw. The system completes the draws from a database of active account ID numbers using a random number generator and the parameters of the smallest ID number to the largest. It then displays the postcode on the chosen account number as the winner of the draw. All it ‘sees’ is the account numbers of active members, it is not influenced by any other data or outside factors and is as random as a computer can be.

You could give your postcode more chances of coming up by referring your neighbours to us: https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/20-referral-bonus

I'll TRY! If I can find it again. I don't think it came on just now 🤔

elaineska, could you email a copy of this to admin@pickmypostcode.com so that I can pass it onto my colleagues please? I can't see what you are referring to in the email.

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That's his cousin, Jim Kong Un!

Metal, nickel colour with a knob each corner. vertical bars in the middle. And before you say it, no it's not a kid's cot - I may fall over but only once out of bed) and it's not prison bars.

Pine - as with others part of the frame.

Yes I do

Oak four poster, 6' wide

Pine headboard, part of the frame.

Quite large one with crushed velvet type fabric, I managed to get it thrown in when we bought bed and wardrobes.

We have a pine headboard, it's part of the bedframe, not comfortable to lean against so I put a pillow vertically behind me if I want to sit up and read.

No headboard - 1 very flat pillow at night, and a stack of 9 plump pillows during the day for leaning in. xx

Velvet fabric - looks fabulous but it doesn't half give me neck ache when I'm sat up reading in bed!

We don’t have a headboard.

Wood

Metal

One I made myself, a couple of 5 ft long pieces of hard cardboard, covered with foam, and covered with a curtain, then diamanté buttons pinned into it in a diamond pattern. I screwed it onto the wall with mirror screws and it looks lovely though I say it myself...

Same as Lidlicker.

Chipboard covered in foam with yellow fabric pinned down by metal buttons covered in the same fabric.

Victorian style, metal squirly thing.

Fabric although I actually had to go check if I even had a headboard 😂

Same here, with knobs on, both beds.

Pine, part of the pine bed frame.

Fabric here too a unit with a shelf across the top & lights under it + bedside cupboards with shelves, mirrors & lights either side.

Fabric

Fabric covered wood.

I have a pine headboard.

I had to go and have a look. It is wood covered in pvc. A sort of creamy colour.

I met him when I was young. He had been the Reverend of my village and came back to open the village show

A question on how many books were written was on Ant and Dec's Limitless Win recently. The contestants were unsure, guessed about 20, but decided to retire with what they had already won. Lucky for them, because the answer was, I think, about 34, and they would have gone home with nothing.

James the Red Engine was my favourite.

Bet Thomas was chuffed at letting off steam, the book was the holy rail.

Someone else shares my postcode. I wish there was a way to check that they are still active, so that the pressure's off to check 'on the dot.' Of course some players bob in and out, so it wouldn't be practical.

Referring to my recent win......I had checked the 9am draw, then, later that morning, gone to a funeral. I had switched my phone off, and forgot to switch it back on until I arrived home at 2.30ish. I was just making myself a cup of tea when my phone rang. It was a friend asking why I hadn't answered my phone, or her messages. "Do you know that your postcode has come up?" she said. I checked, and there it was, in the midday bonus draw. I would have spotted it anyway, when I drank my tea and checked PMP, but it was nice of her to want to tell me. She was more excited than I was 😄

I know that people think it's unethical to tell someone that they've won, but she knows that I've been a routine checker for 15 years.

That's more like "nightmare" or "disaster". 😮😮

I agree Kat - but not happened to me - yet.

Sadness is surely scrolling down & seeing someone else has claimed YOUR postcode & you were too late! 😭😭😭😭

That cracked me up and even the other half grinned 😀

Love it! Definitely made me laugh, that one. :-D

Made me laugh.

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🤣🤣🤣, my kind of joke!

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Everyone in our house chuckled at that one too.

:-) :-)

That's so bad it made me laugh! 😜

Pine frame with slats and a spring mattress that really needs to be changed. Lots of room underneath for some of the junk I have collected over many years. Wouldn't know where to put the junk without this type of bed.

Divan with a nice comfy but supportive sprung mattress- 2 drawers each side.

IKEA Brimnes with drawers and storage headboard, heavy mattress combines coils and memory foam. Previous base was DIY from various components - I worked for a while in a social enterprise selling refurbished donated furniture.

Pine frame with slats and loads of junk underneath!

Built in bed frame.

Pine bed frame with a sprung mattress and we also have four separate drawers on wheels underneath the bed.

Lift up divan with storage underneath but the memory foam mattress on top is so heavy I get a double hernia every time I try and lift it 😕🤣

Bed frame, reinforced by Mr Tom so it can take the weight of a sprung mattress & two hefty folks!

We tried a memory foam which came with the frame. Gave it away after a week. Tried an expensive pillow top & I couldn't stand the hump down the middle which they soon develop. Got a brilliant sprung mattress now, thank goodness Mr Tom can turn it, I struggle to help but it's more to do with being too little rather than being feeble. I can sympathise with Mrs Pea. I'd have to ask the Kitten to do it if Mr Tom couldn't.

I had to replace my waterbed of 34 years as I was struggling to change the bedding by myself. I now have a divan with 2 drawers which I have to rotate one month and completely flip the next. Every bit as much of a struggle but without the same level of comfort - and I've not had a full night's uninterrupted sleep since I bought it!

EDIT: It's the mattress I have to manhandle each month: not the drawers or divan! It's been a long shift tonight! 🤭

Bed Frame

Pine frame with slats and a sprung mattress with topper. We've had the frame over 40 years and see no reason to change but we'll probably replace the mattress in a year or so, maybe sooner.

Pine frame with slats which was a wedding present from my mother in 1987. Wouldn't part with it.

Drawer divan that is on its last legs. Turn over in bed and the whole thing creaks and complains, I might be better off sleeping on the floor.

Divan with a drawer each side

Divan with half ottoman and 2 side drawers 😴

My husband made our wooden bed and it’s so heavy I can’t move it.

Pre-loved single pine frame with slats. Some I replaced & screwed them all in place. I think it was the top deck of a nice pair of bunks.

And In the big spare bedroom a heavy pine double with slats, wouldn't like to move it.

Divan with two drawers underneath on both sides

Divan with 2 drawers each side and same as Shyboy foam mattress never again

Divan - tried slats and they were awful. I also can’t stand the feel of memory foam - just touching it in the bed store set my teeth on edge.

A bed frame with a memory foam mattress which is useless. I will go back to a sprung mattress sometime.

Divan with two drawers on one side.

Divan with a drawer each side at the foot end.

I have a pine bed frame, with wooden slats 🛌

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@Admin. Are you sure you didn't just turn your computer off & on again?

It works for most things. 😁

The Outlook Support Team have lifted the restrictions and we expect normal service to resume over the next 24-48 hours.

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/172-microsoft-are-blocking-our-emails

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@Chris - not a Shetlander but worked at Sullom Voe Terminal in the 80's then went south to look after my father then SWMBO's parents.

Moved back to Da Rock in 2019 as grandchildren are here (both Shetlanders)

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Granny, please do contact us about this.

Update: The Outlook Support Team have lifted the restrictions and we expect normal service to resume over the next 24-48 hours.

"but not for the missing days." - in that case please email admin as I suggested above and they will add the missing days for you. :-)

Hi, I was doing that but my bonus wasn't changing and so I used the internet. My bonus still did not change. Thankfully it has come back into my feed. My bonus also changed today but not for the missing days.

Granny - You can use any of your old PMP emails to connect to the site, even if they are in the deleted or trash folders.

Sorry about Microsoft blocking our emails. We suggest changing your email address, if you have another one you can use. This FAQ explains more: https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/172-microsoft-are-blocking-our-emails

If your bonus is not increasing as it should, please contact us so that we can look into this for you.

I've never had a reminder email and my bonus goes up fine.

@Granny - if your bonus isn't recording then you need to email admin@pickmypostcode.com as they may not see your question here (and definitely not on a weekend). I don't think that will be anything to do with you not accessing the website through the emails though since many of us - myself included - access it without the reminder emails anyway. But I'm sure admin will sort this for you if you contact them as they will be able to tell which days you visited the site.

@DaSoothMoother - are you from Shetland by any chance? I was there for three years, loved it, give or take the darkness in winter :)

@granny - Microsoft are blocking PMP and WAD emails. You would be better to bookmark one of the PMP pages in your browser and use that, rather than waiting for the email.

Even when working properly it takes a while (could be 2 or 3 hours) to send out all the emails each day and the first claim draws could be claimed by another user.

🥳🥳🥳@Claire

🎉 Congrats 🎉

Claire, Congratulations on having it confirmed 👍☺

Congratz Claire.

Congratulations Claire on your win.

Panic over!

Claire, congratulations! 🥳🥳

Claire, I can see the email we have received as confirmation of your claim, so congratulations on your win! I'll email you about it now.

Thank you all for your replies, I did see/click the claim button so hopefully everything will be fine 😊 I have been contacted by one of the team this morning

But if you haven't seen a claim button then, as others have said, it will be because your postcode is dormant (if you don't visit regularly) or that you joined after the draw. Hope this helps!

...or someone else has claimed before you.

@Claire - you don't receive an email if you win on this FREE lottery. As others have said, if you came to the page, saw a green CLAIM button next to your postcode in the Stackpot, and then clicked on it your payment will be made by admin as soon as they return to the office tomorrow. But if you haven't seen a claim button then, as others have said, it will be because your postcode is dormant (if you don't visit regularly) or that you joined after the draw. Hope this helps!

Was there a green claim button? If not, you haven’t won. Why do you think you have ?

Have a iook at this link from the FAQ's . just copy and paste it.

good luck.

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/39-how-do-i-claim-if-my-postcode-wins

CO2 7LG (3 registered), . SR6 0QD (7 registered)., and M22 4ET (8 registered), have now been claimed.

Only the first person to claim wins on Stackpot.

If you clicked the green claim button first, then you have won, & Admin will usually pay it by tomorrow. If it's already claimed then you won't see a claim button cos a neighbour beat you to it, bettter luck next time.

You shouldn't wait for the reminder email as you'll miss some of the draws, there are many ways to visit the site anytime. Google it or bookmark any page.

There should be claim button next to the winning postcode. It only appears if your account is active at the time of the draw. If you've clicked the claim button and are waiting, I won a flash draw the other day and it took a full day to come through.

"Altogether in the Floral dance"

Barrie, I reckon it was a vinyl frisbee that slipped through the net and got etched or whatever they call it. Actually, he had a good voice, but that darned song stays in your brain for about three weeks.

Beth - Terry Wigon definitely released a record so you can only argue that it was/wasn't a song/a tune or enjoyable.

My Mum loved Doddy too, so we had "Think of Me wherever you Are" played at her funeral.

My Dad was a fan of Ken Dodd, he chose the song Happiness to be played at his funeral.

Yes, there seemed to be a spate of entertainers with their own shows who could also turn out a decent tune - Val Doonican, Morecambe and Wise, Des O’Connor - even Terry Wogan released a record, though Trading Standards might query it being called that!

Ken Dodd had a lovely voice despite his appearance 🙃

Once more to tears of happiness.

Turn our tears of regret

(We were only listening to this at our dementia cafe this week!)

Lets forgive & forget

But tears can't mend a broken heart I must confess

Tears have been my only consolation

After all those happy hours we spent . . . together

I just can't believe that you could forget me

Memories of a love you never meant

are all you left me ......

The same goes for me.

Hope you both feel better soon. Tracy and BuaD. 🤞

Bob and Tracy, hope you both feel better soon.

Good luck Tracy, and Bob.

BUD, I hope you are out of pain and back to full health soon. Glad you are being looked after well. I have my OH looking after me while I am suffering through a bad flare-up, so I sympathise.

Even sitting down is bad enough. No bobbing here

I find bobbing up is fine - It is the landing afterwards that is hard.

Hope you feel better soon, in the meantime please do not do so much bobbing up (except on PMP).

Glad you're back home Bob, hope you feel better soon.

Great that you’re home and off that uncomfortable trolley. Hope you’ll be feeling better soon.

Thanks all. Back home now, still in much pain. whole time in a corridor. There's nothing like your own bed. Wife and daughter have been brilliant

BUAD, Get well soon. 🏥🩺

Hope you are fully recovered and back home soon

Hope you will soon get better and are either in a ward or back home soon. Sending you healing thoughts.

Come back to us soon, BU&D.

Hope you will be home soon, Bob.

Oh no, hope you'll be on the mend and back home soon, Bob.

Hope you will be feeling better and back home soon.

Bob up and Down, hope you get moved from the corridor soon and that you recover quickly.

Thanks for the kind thoughts. There were a few iterations of The Red Barrows. I ran the Jeddah branch. Got a diagnosis at 3am, but still on a corridor now. Just had a shower, so not too bad, just very boring

Hope all is well for you very soon.

Hope you are not stuck there very long.

I remember the "Red Barrows" too. Really funny the first time you see it.

I hope that you are diagnosed & repaired as soon as they can.

I hope whoever is in need of attention is treated soon

Hope all is ok soon Ridiculous time to wait for treatment

Take it steady BuaD..

Hope it's nothing too serious and you'll be home soon.

@BuaD. Hope you are on the mend now.

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Hope you’re home soon. My husband was in A & E last month for two nights, transferred to a ward on the third & was home on the fourth day. BTW I loved the Red Barrows. That was some years ago and very funny.

Oh Dear Hope you're soon attended to.

Last time I was in our car broke down outside, but I was patched up in 15 minutes. x

I hope you get home soon….🤞

Oh dear BuaD, hope you & yours are not in too much strife!

There's a lovely garden called the John Dawber Garden hidden up behind the Lawns car park round the back of Lincoln Castle. It's tiny but so many lovely plants and features packed in. Run by volunteers for a charitable trust.

Margam Hall and Parkland near me but as I don't (can't) walk very far these days out of reach for me.

We have several brewery's & distilleries in the local area but the nearest to hidden is the marsh orchid which can be found on the SSSI below our close.

Hopeful2B, I had forgotten about that. I went to see it many years ago, it's incredible to think people actually lived in it.

I'm lucky enough to live in an area with an abundance of nature reserves and National parks, not to mention the South West Coast path and Tarka trail which is a few hundred yards from my house. Not exactly hidden but I know a few places that are less well known through my local Wildlife Trust group.

Suelero, You have a castle??, very posh ;-)

We have a castle once owned by Katherine Parr. Her tomb is in the chapel there.

Orwell didn't revile Wigan. He wrote about the living conditions.

We have an SSSI on our doorstep that is managed by Butterfly Conservation. It's on an old World War 2 airfield and visitors are mostly interested and hoping to spot the rare Silver-studded Blue butterfly. We have seen a couple, and they're beautiful.

Lidlicker, I lived in Hereford until I went to Uni. It's such a lovely area, with beautiful countryside.

Samandi......not to mention the smallest house in Britain.

I live in Wigan, a town that George Orwell reviled, but we have lots of lovely countryside and historic places. The Romans liked us!

We've got the Mappa Mundi & the Chained Library in the city & gorgeous countryside all around us. Elan Valley isn't too far away so, a trip out to see the dams is a nice day out.

Too many to mention on the Scottish riviera

30 minutes away is the Nene Valley steam railway. Although to be honest it's not really hidden.

Haven't found any gems whilst digging the garden.

West Lothian have 2 aqueducts on the canal cycle path that are over 100ft above the ground, one towards Linlithgow from Broxburn, & the other opposite way towards Edinburgh, good views & occasionally see barges, or people camping & paddling in the rocky river way below, with a good selection of fauna & flora (fish, birds, rodents, cattle in fields, patches of flowers, brambles, garlic, aniseed, & wooded cuttings between mountainous mining slag heaps).

There’s a nice little café round the corner that does a lovely coffee. ☕️

The South Downs National Park 😀

Roman Bridge and secret garden which is the ruins of a Roman fortress down, but off the way, of nature trail

Not hidden but lots of castles along the North Wales coast, St Winifred's well nearby, a ruined abbey, a monastery and plenty of hills

The Bayeux Tapestry. When everyone else is standing in a queue for hours, and paying for an expensive ticket, at the British Museum later this year, sensible people in our town will pop into our museum (free) and have a look at a very faithful full-sized copy.

We have the ruins of one of the largest and most important abbeys in England, with many royal connections (and possibly the grave of Henry I).

And we have a Banksy.

Not really hidden, we have the Kennet and Avon canal near us, lovely to walk along.

Not telling! 😊

OK - New Forest wildlife, unlimited walking, not too many hills, Southampton and Portsmouth with the centuries of history, the National Motor Museum and Beaulieu Abbey at Beaulieu, Isle of Wight within sight, coast and beaches within about 4-5 miles…

And Exbury Gardens.

Part of our area, including the moorland on my doorstep, has recently been designated a national nature reserve so there's that to be happy about. We also have a few nice stately homes and other architectural delights to visit within a short drive.

Congrats to you!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Yay 🖐️😁

It's always good to hear of someone's win. I was lucky to have one, not long ago. So exciting!

Well done both...

Congratulations to you both on your wins.

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Congratz.

Congratulations to you both on your wins 🎉🎉

Congratulations, LynneeeeB and SuedeNym 🥳🥳

Congrats! I won a flash draw yesterday too. Always worth scrolling down the page. Money came through today.

Enjoy your windfall, LynneeeeB! 🥳🎉

🎉 Congrats 🎉

Congratulations, enjoy spending it 🎊

Congrats, LynneeeeB! 🥳

Beth, your email provider is actually the one that comes after the @ in your email address, so it's neither Microsoft or Google.

Twinkle, we suggest changing your email address, if you have another one you can use. This FAQ explains more: https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/172-microsoft-are-blocking-our-emails

Well, I did warn you I was a technophobe! The very nice boys on this site tried to explain to me what a server and platform were once, but my brain had the same reaction as when I tried to eat sprouts as a kid - it just froze.

No @Beth8it!, Microsoft and Google are two different brands, that's why they have different names! Thanks @Marie, I'll try adding to safe senders and hope it works!

I thought I used Microsoft - my reminders are still coming. On the other hand, being a technophobe, maybe I don’t. Is it the same as Google?

Agreed

One of my pet-hate phrases is "For Free". Either you get something "free" , or you get something "for nothing." Grrrrrr!

H2B - oh yes, I had a bit of a ding-dong on the OU forum about grammar mistakes and starting every sentence with ‘So’. One or two tried to argue that I shouldn’t make people think it was wrong, and grammar wasn’t as important as all that… sorry, I bit! I said that this was an organisation for improving one’s standards, learning, doing things properly - bad grammar, punctuation and spelling loses marks and anyone who wasn't taught well at school, or hadn’t learned for some reason, had the resources available to learn as an adult. There are OpenLearn courses, evening classes, even things like spellcheck, or a friend to proof-read. If people bothered to speak properly and, importantly, bothered to correct their children when they were young, we might have a better standard of education when kids left school. They tried to say people spoke differently in different areas, but accent is irrelevant- a lot of news readers now have accents, but still use good grammar - at least, most of the time. Even they are starting to get ‘uptick’ and ‘So…’ creeping in. Oh well, I shall stand and wave my flag alone!

I try not to be too pedantic about other peoples' mistakes, and try to ignore them. A few make me grit my teeth, though. The recent fashion for beginning a discourse with So........ being one of them. Mixing up robbed and stolen is another. "My bike was robbed." I didn't know that bikes owned anything. These things are sent to try us!

Dislike being asked “ it is Miss, Ms or Mrs” my marital status has zero to do with anything at all. I say “ it’s Julie”. After all, that is my name and I have no objections to people using it. Also dislike being called love, pet, darling etc by people younger than me. Saying “ off of” . Up until 5 or so years ago, this was never a thing and makes zero sense. Oh I could go on 🙄

Any of the various there/their/ they're misuses - as if they're interchangeable! And recipes that tell me to "grab" something - grab your bowl; grab your strawberry; grab a spoon 😫

I dislike my full name displayed on my post.

What happened to our initial and surname followed by our address 🤔 📝

Brought or bought

Our or are

Have or of

Three or free 🤔

Goodnight 🤪

Matjay45, ⬆️ Those are exactly prime examples of my pet peeves, 'off of ' makes me quite cross. I once bought a book which had been self-published by an acquaintance, and could not believe that it hadn't been proofread. Apparently, it had...... I partly blame the BBC for allowing colloquialisms or idioms in their programmes when they first introduced regional accents instead of the clipped 'BBC standard'. I'm not the brightest star when it comes to diction, but my excuse is that I'm not 100% English. 🤣

How about "off of", ie. I got off of the train, instead of "I got off the train." Also "smoov" and "fick" for smooth and thick.

All the above! Also, I don't like "go with" or "come with".

The one that annoys me - sorry, ONE of the ones - is changing ‘have’ to ‘do’. If I ask someone, ‘Have you change for a £10 note?’ the correct reply is ‘Yes, I have’, not ‘Yes, I DO. ’ Do is correct if I had asked ‘do you have’, but stop swapping them around. We all know American grammar is appalling, so we shouldn’t be copying it.

Apart from that, if someone starts by addressing me by my Christian name and I think it’s a cold call (I’m on the TPS) I say, ‘Have you rung before? No? Then I don’t know you. I’m not your friend - if this is a business call, please address me correctly.’ For some reason they don’t hang on the phone very long… however, if they apologise, I let them carry on, as I do like to educate the young. Then I tell them I’m on the TPS. 😊😈

Other than that, all the above!

All of the above plus our/are - how can you not know the difference between them?, brought and brought, definitely not definately, American spellings of perfectly good English words, and many, many more 😀

@Marie - In Ireland everything "can be got" or had, never obtained or applied for as they can rarely spell!

I agree, on first contact older people should be addressed by Mr/Mrs unless otherwise told. If familiar or same age we can agree on first names.

Don't get me started on Americanisms, it's their choice to distort the english language. "starting everything with So, ... wallet/purse, boot/trunk, have a nice day ya'hear, Y'all, & many mis-spellings & mis-use of similar words", etc

I hate the way all those Americanisms have crept into our language nowadays. I also get really irritated by people who say or write should of, could of, would of, instead of the correct should've, could've, would've - but then I'm just a grammar pedant. :-D

I hate when people use 'get' rather than 'have'.

Can I get a coffee?

No, but you could try asking nicely for one.

My poor step-grandson got it this afternoon when he called in after doing cross-country. He only asked," Can I have a bit of water, Gran?" But me being me, said, " You may, and you know where the freezer is." His face was a picture as daylight dawned, and he quickly rephrased it.

FluffyLiz was correct. This is a Pandora's Box. As far as using my 1st name goes, I don't usually mind if they ask. Don't call me and, as soon as I answer, say "Hi X", then tell me you're from a company I've had no dealings with for a decade. I so agree with everyone's views and am pleased I'm not the only one to share..... Does anyone have any others? It makes a change from the moans about the lack of emails and Pure Spectrum. 😜

Yes Mrs Pea, I'm in agreement with you about being widowed.

Also I hate " hi you guys" "was everything all right guys"....excuse me, but I'm not a guy !!!! Grrrr

In my childhood adults were never called by their christian names. We were taught respect.

Oh I totally agree with all the above! As a society in general we seem to be lacking respect in general. I also detest having to put up with being told I'm 'single'. I'm not single; I'm widowed. 'Single' is (generally) a choice: being widowed most definitely isn't. 😡

Cakey, I am with you on less/fewer. Also an amount of people. Grr! If they can be counted it’s number of people etc.

Yesterday I had a call in which I was called "love" more times than I wanted (ie none). Don't like "reach out" either but the one that really infuriates me is wrongful use of "less". Rule of thumb is if you are talking about an amount it is less; if you can count the items it is fewer so less water (an amount) or fewer pints (can be counted)

Edit: I object to being told Soandso is the nation's favourite actor, celebrity, broadcaster or national treasure. This is the case particularly today when everyone is telling me David Attenborough is a national treasure - well sorry he is no favourite of mine and I go out of my way to avoid any programmes he is in. I appreciate this is a personal dislike but it is my choice not to like him.

I do feel that maybe the overfamiliar methods of address are a result of modern, woke culture. There is all this business of preferred pronouns, which I, personally, consider rather daft, as say it as you see it is my unfiltered motto. Only the other day I attended a medical appointment to see a practitioner I had never seen before, all the other patients were referred to as “Mrs or Mr” as gender appropriate but I was called by my Christian name only, no reference to my title, which is genuinely Lady. Some defer to Mrs but the one that really grates is Ms, absolutely detest that ! I accept that my surname seems difficult for some and is constantly mispronounced but just ask and I will tell you ! In our diverse, multicultural society the most obscure foreign names seem to incur no problems in pronunciation even though some Eastern European names can sound like a sneezing fit ! Maybe it is my age as well ? We are from a generation that were raised to respect our elders and superiors, with family friends always referred to as “Auntie or Uncle”.

Yes, being connected to a machine that has a limited repertoire of answers so most questions elicit a repeat of its previous reply.

If it has to print the same answer twice, I should automatically be transferred to a human .

OOh, where do I start.

My bad is one. Random people saying Love you, no you don't. You don't know him/her.

I could go on.

Ooh, I think you may well have opened a positive Pandora's box, PicklesTheKat! (But I get you, I really get you, LOL).

I don't mind call handlers using my first name as they generally mangle my surname and usually call me Mrs, which I'm not - I prefer Miss or Ms. As for other pet peeves, I'm afraid there are so many I can't even think of one right now!😂

Good luck for a win soon ☺️

I have a shortcut icon on my phone which I see as soon as I look at it, and I keep the site open in my laptop browser, so I go to it straight after checking my emails. It doesn't really matter when you check for most of the draws (as long as it's before midday the following day), but the Stackpot and Mini Draw are first come, first wins, so do make sure you check as soon after 9am, 6pm and 9pm as you can.

Why do you wait for a reminder when the first person to claim stackpot using your postcode will win the £10 and their bonus?

As I posted on the Main Draw page yesterday, we’re currently experiencing issues with Microsoft blocking our daily reminder emails for both Pick My Postcode and Win a Dinner.

Please try adding chris@pickmypostcode.com to your email contact list and your Provider’s Safe Sender’s List.

Remember you do not need the email reminder to access the site. You can visit us directly.

We also have suggestions so that members don’t have to rely on emails, listed in this FAQ article:

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/30-my-email-reminders-arent-coming

Sorry for any inconvenience this has caused.

and your phone

If you use a PC or laptop, you can set a bookmark in your browser for pickmypostcode.com so you can access the site whenever you want, rather than having to wait for an email (which may never arrive).

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Go to the Main Draw page, scroll down to the post from Admin Marie which explains.

Why bother with them? Set up your own reminders.

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/86-how-to-create-a-shortcut-to-pmp-on-your-phone

I joined within the first few weeks of it starting. 15 years later my Postcode finally came up on the Stackpot. Only a £tenner, but with my bonus added it was almost £2,500. My patience was finally rewarded.

Some people have won within days of joining, I believe. Just the luck of the draw?

Same here. I have been doing this for 15 years and my postcode has never come up. It’s the luck of the draw I guess.

Like Fluffy Liz I have been doing the Cats Protection Lottery and the Guide Dogs lottery for many years, not had a sniff, just live in hope that one day I will have some luck. Good luck everyone, congrats LynneeeB !

I've been playing for about a year and seen some postcodes close to me win. Today it was my turn!

Well, emigration is a giant leap compared with moving 'just around the corner' less than ten minutes' walk in north Barnsley (Mapplewell?)

I have done the Cats Protection Lottery and the Dogs Trust Lottery for 10 years and never won a thing ... and they cost me money! But good luck with your move, I hope all goes well and you enjoy your new home.

Please remember that this free prize draw giveaway is like a lottery, you're best to hope you'll win, not expect to! :) Each member’s entry has the exact same chance of being selected in a draw. The system completes the draws from a database of active account ID numbers using a random number generator and the parameters of the smallest ID number to the largest. It then displays the postcode on the chosen account number as the winner of the draw. All it ‘sees’ is the account numbers of active members, it is not influenced by any other data or outside factors and is as random as a computer can be.

There is no geographical bias in the selection procedure. The computer doesn't know (or care) where anyone lives! You could give your postcode more chances of coming up by referring your neighbours to us: https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/20-referral-bonus

Once you have emigrated, you will need to delete your account as PMP is open to UK residents only. If you are a member of WAD and are moving to a country that uses PayPal then you are free to keep that account open as WAD is open to people outside the UK as well.

At least you didn't have to pay for your ticket for this one!

It's a lottery. A win is not guaranteed, just the same as in all the other lotteries you can think of.

Don't forget It's Britain only on this competition.

@k8, you just showed the truth of probability

I'm glad I waited patiently. 🙂

I know when people haven't won they say they're leaving, but it does seem a little drastic leaving the country because you haven't won.

I flagged an old message in my bin folder and now my emails are coming through again thank god!!! 😁

As I posted on the Main Draw page yesterday, we’re currently experiencing issues with Microsoft blocking our daily reminder emails for both Pick My Postcode and Win a Dinner.

Please try adding chris@pickmypostcode.com to your email contact list and your Provider’s Safe Sender’s List.

Remember you do not need the email reminder to access the site. You can visit us directly.

We also have suggestions so that members don’t have to rely on emails, listed in this FAQ article:

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/30-my-email-reminders-arent-coming

Sorry for any inconvenience this has caused.

The problem, as explained by Marie on the Main Draw page is affecting WAD as well. The site is there 24/7 so just set up your own reminders.

This link shows how to set up a shortcut on your phone for PMP, but the same method applies to WAD ...

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/86-how-to-create-a-shortcut-to-pmp-on-your-phone

If it puts the price up it's a Value Deducting Tax. It's a lie to call it anything else.

Previously Purchase Tax? I thought VAT started at 8%, but maybe it was 5% and went up to 7.5%

I was born on the day they introduced VAT at 7.5%. There was a sales tax prior to that, but it wasn't called VAT until the day I was born.

I'll leave it as an exercise for those who want to guess (I suppose you could use a search engine, or ask AI, but where's the fun in that?)

Oh Lol, you’re pretty safe with that one!

I suppose the only one I can think of is that I have saved the life of two little children - one around 18 months old was choking on a humbug that its idiot grandparents had given it (don’t know if it was male or female child), the second was a bit older, and the mother got him out of the car, told him to stand still, then started struggling with a baby’s car seat. Toddler started walking round the front of the car into the road, and I grabbed his coat hood, heaved him back in before the approaching bus got too near. Mother surfaced, saw me with my hand on his hood, froze, and I just said, ‘You nearly lost this one out in the road. It might be better to get the one out first that can’t move.’ I still don’t think she realised what had happened.

I didn’t get any thanks in either case!

Keep with us Barrie, I don't want to be the only silly buffer on here.

I own and drive a 1950s fire engine and 1960s tractor

Previously used in an 'icebreaker' with an evening class I led: I slept a night in a pipe in Austria (with my family, but actually I didn't sleep well - as usual when driving half way across Europe as adrenaline always kept me going). Dasparkhotel in Ottensheim near Linz, casual basic budget accommodation

I was born in London, England - Educated in Edinburgh, Scotland - and now live near Cardiff, Wales.

At 85 years old I have already lived longer than any of my relatives.

You just reminded me Caroline that I sat with others and chatted to Jon Pertwee whilst working at one of the agricultural shows in the early 90s

I used to collect autographs and, being a big Doctor Who fan, used to go to a lot of events (book signings, conventions, theatres, etc) to collect a lot of Doctor Who-related autographs and meet my hero actors. I've had not one, but THREE, funny incidents with three different actors who've played The Doctor. Sylvester McCoy once stepped on my arm (accidentally), Colin Baker complimented me on my "wonderful head of Doctor Who hair" (I had a perm at the time), and I was washing my hands in the ladies at The Cavern Club, Liverpool when Peter Davidson came dashing in! (nothing untoward, I hasten to add - apparently the dryer wasn't working in the gents and he was just about to do a 'meet and greet'). :-D

Big achievement Barrie. 👏👏👏Keep going! 😁

I'm still alive despite expecting to be dead before I approached 70-73 due to family history but I'm now 75 approaching 76.

I went to primary school in Notting Hill in the 60's and was in the same class as Joshua Wedgwood Benn (Rt Hon Tony Benn son), and Abigail Monkhouse ( Bob Monkhouse's daughter).

I went to tea at their flat in Kensington, and he drove me home afterwards. This was in the era of the Golden Shot gameshow, so he was well known at the time.

My brothers and I were all born in different counties, despite never moving out of the same town! I was born in hospital in Stockton, which was in County Durham; my first brother was born at home in the North Riding of Yorkshire and when my other brother was born the boundaries had all changed and he was born in Cleveland county.

No sorry, I've tried but I can't think of anything!

I was the choreographer of the Red Barrows, a wheelbarrow formation team

I work in education and I'm still smiling. One of my kidneys is approximately 1cm and in a very random place, didn't find out until I was 40.

I married a Klingon! (We had a Star Trek wedding in Las Vegas)

I was born at a very early age, as a great surprise to my mother who was expecting a delivery of a hundredweight of coal.

It’s actually in East Kilbride. My office for my last job before retirement was in G75 ( what used to be NEL).

Valentino Rossi won't mind sharing his "title" with Glasgow.

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I am starting them whenever, at the moment, with a flare-up with arthritis, and I'm not able to do anything that requires standing up for any length of time.

BUAD: 🙋‍♀️

No you won't - you'll put it off till the day after... 😉

I'll answer this tomorrow

Not me Bob etc.

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Hands up who thinks of a job, does it, then writes it on your list and crosses it out

I know all the things that need to be done, but until there is a reason to do them (beds need making before guests arrive) they will remain as ideas floating around in the ether. However when they appear on a list of jobs to be done I zoom around eager to complete and cross off the list.

I used to do things today but as I grow yet older if it can wait till tomorrow it does.

Remember though - If you do it today and enjoy it you could do it again tomorrow.

I don't think I am but people keep reminding me every six months.

Procrastination gets done immediately, everything else joins the almost never list.

I'm really good at it... 😜

I'm a terrible procrastinator.

Beth8it - I'm with you on that!

Start things immediately. Finish around 20 yrs later - maybe.

I try not to set a schedule for anything. I know that if I plan meticulously nothing will go to plan and it will all end up making me feel overwhelmed.

Best just to have a vague idea what needs to be done, and get to it as and when I can or when I remember to.

That's not to say that I forget important appointments or anything that has a precise day/time to be done, and there's always various diaries or calendar apps that allow me to put those in and set reminders, but for everything else, it'll get done when I get around to it.

I am more of a do things today, but I sometimes forget, so it becomes tomorrow.

If there is something I should be doing today I write it on a list of things to do tomorrow. If it is written down I am more likely to do it.

Procrastinate is my middle name.

I prefer today but I'm sometimes incapable because I'm both weaker & everything takes me longer. Sometimes Lin has other ideas & we do something else instead.

Pretty much do today. I'm not a procrastinator.

Important things are done today but less important have to wait.

Do things right away but time is not on my side nor my heart only working 30% so I never catch up - I fall asleep.

Rather today if I can

Unfortunately I'm with Izzy and CarolineC!

I like to do things today. The only problem with that is I get up tomorrow and there's more things to do. Why can't I have a day off?

I could procrastinate for ever and a day.

Do things today 👨‍🍳👍

Oh dear... gotta get it done now!

Same as Izzy!

Hold on while i make my mind up ;-)

Tomorrow, or even next week/month/year ... you get the picture.