Pick My Postcode’s Survey Draw

There's a petrol lawnmower, gardening tools & 3 yards of artificial grass for my balcony in my living room, 3 vacuums in the large bedroom, a steam iron in my drawer, 2 pairs of walking boots, & a foot board on my bed, none of which I currently use..However the stairs to the ground floor can be avoided most days - let me sleep in peace.

I assume 6 puppies were on the list?

As Jaffa, plus dog lead and shoes to walk Lola 😄

Lawnmower hoover iron.🤣

Anon, you should make sure you check all 9 daily draws. There have been 38 BT winners in 2026 (including one in on the £100 evening draw in Feb, and an unclaimed Main Draw winner on March 1st) so far and we’re not at the end of month 3 yet. The most recent winner was £450 on 20th March.

You can check out the winners on the Winners Results pages. Click on each draw tab.

Been 10 this month!!!

https://pickmypostcode.com/past-winners/?postcode=BT

Are you checking the 9 draws a day?

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/16-what-are-the-different-draws

24 hours is a long time in Ireland, especially if you don't check all the draws.

How long?

(For when the next draw takes place, Thursday's winning Survey Draw postcode was ME14 5AN)

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Very good one.

I've never heard this one before. I like it.

Very good :-) :-) :-)

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That one, I like.

I'll ask my colleagues whether it was a client paid survey or not and whether we can add that in. Thanks DaSoothMoother.

I bought a jigsaw in 1998 called Manhattan Skyline. Never been able to do it as it features the Twin Towers.

@A Nick Name, I don't want a custom made (expensive) jigsaw made from one of my photographs. I used to have jigsaws of photos of Cornish harbours and cottages, of a magnificent elephant charging toward the camera, (that photographer was braver than me), of a locomotive from a Welsh mountain railway, and a couple of still shots from Thunderbirds, one of Thunderbird 1 coming into land at an airport (taken from the first episode) and another of Thunderbird 2 rolling out of the hidden hanger in the rock face.

They're so much more satisfying than a drawing or a painting.

I use an online crossword website - jigsawplanet.com No clutter, no lost pieces, no piles of boxes. All part of my policy of not acquiring things!

There are numerous companies out there now who will make jigsaws from your own photos.

Whatever happened to jigsaws of photographs? They've gone completely, every jigsaw now is of a drawing or a painting. When I was younger, almost every jigsaw was from a photograph.

Shyboy, that was a bargain, I buy a lot of Trevor Mitchell cards and calendars (Kevin Walsh is another one you would like). I buy mine from Rothbury Publishing although they don't do the calendars. I think I paid £6.95 from the Calendar Club pop-up shop, for one of the calendars, before Christmas.

I believe that we are a "decent survey company". We can collect data from an average of 2,000 people in just 10 minutes and tens of thousands within 24 hours. That is quicker than some other survey companies. Find Out Now, our market research website /side of the business has been used and cited in news articles.

https://findoutnow.co.uk/

(This was in response to a reply in this thread which the poster has since deleted)

I'm afraid that this beer & lager survey is for a paying client, so we can't make changes to it. Perhaps "it's a brand I will not consider" can also cover 'not applicable.'

My grouch is when you click on 'I don't work' then they ask a string of questions about your job position!

I don't usually drink beer, & would only buy something that makes decent tasting shandy, but only in prolongued very hot weather.

Thank you for letting me know. I have shared this feedback with my colleagues.

Yes, I noticed that. I just clicked on something or other to get rid of it.

I do occasionally drink lager but it's real lager not the crap most people in Britain drink.

My problem is I do drink beer but never lager and there was no option for that.

More likely the building contractors who built them were trying to follow a satnav!

Trying to keep up with sat nav?🤣🤣🤣

Anglesey Abbey, near Cambridge, Leeds Castle near Kent.

Why do they keep moving these places ?

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What a lovely place to visit (biased) Hopeful2B! 😍

I like hearing about your trips, Shyboy. For various reasons I haven't been away on holiday since a friend and I went to Scotland, two years ago.

Parts of it, Alley.

Newmarket seems to be a very rural place. But with the horse racing fraternity there it is really quite posh.

Soiunds like a good trip.

Last year every NT property we went to had scaffolding up & parts closed except Corfe Castle where we didn't see any closed parts & Dudmaston Hall which was clear.

What a stroke of luck having Coffee & Walnut cake on offer :-)

Nice to hear you have had a very good day. Hope tomorrow turn out as well. You do make me jealous with all you outings whilst I am stuck at home on my own. It takes me all my time to get my mother out to the laundry let alone out on a trip.

Job titles are becoming grander and grander for the most menial of tasks.

Two spies met in a bar, one asks "What are you having to drink?" the other replies "If I told you that I'd have to kill you, but it's a dry Martini - shaken not stirrred".

Put 'can't tell you or I'd have to shoot you.'

Nick - sorry, 400gm not 300. Cheaper per kg than the Picobelle or sugarbelle.

62p at Aldi?

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I think you've got confused there Beth. You said tomatoes but you put the price for best steak, admittedly more expensive steak than I'd buy, but still steak.

Tesco Finest cherry toms on the vine, around 300g? I think for £3.30, are nicer than the Piccolo and Sugarbelle - in my opinion, anyway, and they keep well.

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@Barrie, They’re the best tasting tomatoes in my humble opinion.

We love the Piccolo tomatoes from Aldi.

On market day I can buy cherry tomatoes 🍅 on the vine at £4.40 per kg. They have such flavour.

That was a real bargain on the avocados, I haven't had them cheap in ages. Large Warburton's and others we've been picking up at 10p lately. Wife got an extra thick 800g Warburton's today at 10p. One of the ones I got is still in the freezer so we're using hers. Farmfoods milk off again with 2 days left on it, complained and got a £10 voucher. They've got rid of the chiller room in the warehouse after a refurb, which I mentioned, I know they sell mostly frozen but you still need chiller in warm weather, even in the warehouse.

Along with my Sainsbury's shopping yesterday, I was fortunate in liberating the last two large carrier bags, which I was just about to scan through self-service check out when a young foreign woman tried to make a grab for them, assuming that they were for free! Needless to say I didn't let go of them...

Mine was about mobiles, broadband and landlines. Haven't had a £3 political one.

Got that yesterday immediately after the £3 political one. They were virtually the same.

That's really starange, I was thinking the folks of Belfast are particularly lucky. Guess it's all about perception. Good luck in future draws!

I occasionally get the one about loft insulation and ask them to hold on whilst I get them the number of the landlord. They always hang up on me.

@Kat, I always ask where the bleep they got my number, too.

I get snotty with people or non people who presume to address me by my first name. 'My friends call me Kat..... but you may call me Mrs ..... ' Works IRL too! 🤬

On a good day I might just ask 'Where the (expletive) did you obtain this number? Followed by 'Lose it forthwith!' 🤬🤬🤬

Perhaps you should have asked when they were last in your loft to know what was up there?

I had one today didn't ask who I was saying "My building is listed as not having enough loft insulation, do I know what kind of insulation it is?" I said ":No, I haven't even been in a loft for 25 years, what list told you that?", then it cut me off for some reason before I could say it was a block of flats.. But they phone every fortnight.

I do think the trips with the little incidents like this are the ones you remember and talk about more.

Well at least the weather was good for you. Hope it continues for your next jaunt. We'll be waiting to read all about it.......tinternet connection permitting of course. :-)

I was thinking that tis break was more interesting than enjoyable.

Good luck for tomorrow.

Sorry, Shyboy, but when things go wrong for you we get a really interesting story! (Not that the ordinary ones aren’t entertaining too). Hope it goes better next time.

When things go slightly wrong, do you not think it makes the break a bit more interesting? All the very best for your break tomorrow, at least the weather should be kind to you.

Thanks Shyboy, very entertaining, looking forward to the next update. I hope you have a good time, with brilliant Wi-Fi & lots of roasties.

Interesting read Shyboy 👍

Very enjoyable reading Shyboy.

Love your travel blogs and always look forward to seeing them. Enjoy your next mystery tour.

Shyboy, It could have been worse "The big P!!!". Hope you can keep us updated on your next adventure..

Brilliant write up. Very entertaining reading with my coffee. 😀

Wishing you excellent wi-fi and delicious scrambled eggs on your next adventure.

Glad you enjoyed yourself despite the issues. I hope you have wi-fi on the next one so that you can keep us updated.

@Tim C - Precisely.

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@Purple Anonymous: Is that ‘attached’ to the steering column or ‘holding’ the steering wheel 🤔

@PA - Most BMWs do though.

To be fair, indicating seems to be a dying art on the roads these days, so it's not only BMW's that have a useless knob attached to the steering column...

Yorkie friend used to put nose-in-the-air and say disparagingly, 'Oh a Screamer in a Beemer' as they launch theselves past at 140mph. Maybe they only have Kph instead of Mph on their speedo? Either that or, 'I must get one of those cars - his 70mph is much faster than mine...'

I was referring to indicators but I appreciate the information 👍🏻

Alley the speedos are obsolete in a BMW

On our way out tonight 2 cars were racing along a short part of dual carriageway and both were BMW’s

My wife made a comment but I can’t repeat it here 😂😂

I once got told off by a lone cop with a hand radar for doing 31mph in a clapped out old Viva on an empty straight dual carriageway (Dagenham Civic Centre). I floored the accelerator for 400 yards before he stepped into the road & held up his hand.

A friend of mine was so chuffed when he got a speeding ticket while driving his little Citroen 2CV that he had the letter framed.

This is true.

You can go off people you know Enver. :-)

Very good Enver

I know the lights you are refering to Enver but I think it was indicators that Tim C was referencing.

The yellow flashing lights you see on other cars are amber warning beacons or LED strobe lights, which are used to increase visibility, signal caution, or indicate that a driver is working (e.g., security, delivery, breakdown recovery, or utility services). While they are not standard on BMWs, they are commonly added as aftermarket accessories to passenger vehicles for safety.

@ Tim C - I am surprised they still bother to fit speedos to BMWs the drivers don't seem to lokk at them.

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Can I ask a question - Do you have any of those yellow flashing lights dotted around the outside of your car 🤔??? I see other drivers using them but they don’t seem to be available on a BMW 😂😂

Very high volume?

Vee have vays, of helping you.

How can we help you?

Very High Viscosity?

May have been on here before but due to the request I'll repeat it.

I went to the pet shop shop and said "I want some wasps". He replied "We don't sell wasps" ,so I said "Why have you got them in the window then?"

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Want some postcodes?

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WhatsApp chat?

Weather Supposedly Pleasant?

🍀Failte, and tae yerself, T'B'Sure, T'B'Sure.

Thanks Dharma, same to you☘️

@Beth8it! It's just a little way from the Barbican in Southside Street, a few doors along from the Gog and Magog Wetherspoon.

Lol, where is that??? Grandson is still at Plymouth Uni. I may find another excuse to visit!

@Fat Controller - last year while my son wat still at Plymouth Uni, we did a tour of the Plymouth Gin factory. The sample tasting at the end of the tour was something else. I can't tell you exactly what it was, because the memory is oddly hazy.

I was given a 'Red Letter Days' tour of the Bombay Gin Distillery in Hampshire - really nice day, very pretty with a little chalk stream through the grounds and freebies at the end, plus discount on big bottles. We had had to postpone our trip - Covid, I think - so they had a note ready when we arrived to give us a 750ml bottle of the standard gin and a bottle of the Bramble one too. That was worth doing - I may go again. Very interesting.

Lol 63, you need a trip to the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin. They tell you all that sort of stuff there then they take you up to their lounge at the top of the building where you can enjoy a pint with a panoramic view over the whole of Dublin. 😁

I was there a number of years ago and the tour and 'free' pint at the end was 18 euros. It's probably up to about 40 euros now.

Wetherspoons sold Hop House 13 for a while and then stopped. It was one of the few lagers that had some taste to it. I didn't know it was brewed by Guinness though.

Fat Lad and Tudiefair, Guinness did indeed release an amber beer, it's called Hop House 13. Unfortunately it's a lager.

I like Guinness and blackcurrant but I also like golden Guinness I think it’s called🤔

Guinness did a larger, was it called hop house 42 or some such? Prefer a hoppy pale myself especially in the summer, darker ales in the autumn and winter.

I like a pint of Guinness, or a good IPA, or a nice cold cider in the summertime. I wouldn't drink lager unless I was dying of thirst, and probably not even then 🤢.

I thought the same as you TFC but I agree with you and chose Guinness anyway.

This may not be something we are able to change if it is a client that has specified the question & answer options, but I'll pass it on.

Edit: my colleague is going to update this.

You are correct obviously. All lagers and ales are beer. The difference between lager and ale are the type of yeast and the temperatures used. Stout is an ale, made using top fermenting yeasts, unlike lager which uses bottom fermenting and is brewed at a lower temperature. They should maybe have asked what's your favourite beer. That way it covers ales and lagers, stout being a beer but coming under the ale category.

My big fir cones on the window sill still tell me what the weather is outside - if they are closed up it’s raining or very cold, if it’s hot and dry they open up. However, Alexa tells me more accurately without having to get out of bed to go and see the fir cones, plus I get the temperature, and the fir cones don’t say ‘Good morning. In ….. today it’s currently 8 degrees with a light southwesterly wind. Today you can expect…’ The day I get that from a fir cones I can ditch Alexa.

I just look out of the window and if I see white stuff swirling around the lamp post I know it is snowing. If the cats come flying in with a damp coat it is raining. Bill Fogitt used to do some very accurate weather forecasts by observing nature.

I found 'Frog Weather' a few years ago and it was completely accurate for a long time, then suddenly it went bad. It later seemed to improve again but I never felt it was quite as good, though close. Now they seem to have changed the app itself and I hate it. It's so much more difficult to use on my phone, but it seems 'certain' websites like to do that. Occasionally it might improve some but many it doesn't. Just look at technology generally compared to how things used to be. If you're pencil broke you sharpened it. Now there's all sorts of ridiculous excuses for things not working right.

I find most craft beers to sweet. I just get Bitter, but in my younger days I was mild !

Most of the others are flavourless. Try real lager either from Europe or a craft brewery.

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In the corner pocket!!! ;-)

I ate too. Ready for evening meal now. 😊

That is a good brush

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