Bonus Draws

I’m an iPad user, Pepi. As Enver says just tap on the word or words with your finger or a stylus pen (if you have one), usually a smiley face emoji appears, which ever word(s) you select will automatically turn green and a pop up box will appear for you to enter your comments as to what you like about the product or topic. Then there will be either an “add” or “submit” button which will save your comment, just leaving the smiley face on the screen. Normally they give you the option to put up to 3 or 6 likes. When you have completed all of your likes, press continue and the next page will appear, go through the same process for your dislikes, which will automatically turn red, this time with a sad face emoji appearing wherever you have clicked. If you change your mind or make a mistake just click on the word(s) again and the colour will disappear returning the screen to as it was, or there will a delete button on the pop up box. When you have submitted all your comments for the amount of dislikes you want to record you just continue to the next page. Simples! (When you know how of course). Hope this helps.

I don't have anything except a laptop but I believe, depending on how the survey works ...

If it says select colour first then do so.

Click (or finger) & drag on text you like to highlight it, then maybe select colour (tap once for green, twice for red, 3x for remove?).

The survey could ask for good points first (displayed in green) & maybe it'll ask for a typed reason, before going on to highlight the next bit, then post each with a ok button which will appear.

Then it will ask for bad points (in red).

To cance lerrors it will either be repeat the process on the error, or a button displayed somewhere after a selection is made.

Someone who uses an i-pad can verify.

Have Pandora closed their stores? SHHH

Except for Drunkard's Den it sounds like a very enjoyable experience.

Well it’s nice that you went somewhere that was a mystery and sounds like you really enjoyed the whole experience too.

Hope May won’t be a disappointment.

You'll get withdrawal symptoms, & say "Any more roasties?" in your sleep.

I opened a pack of 15 Farmfoods eggs, & picked the biggest one, I guessed correctly, it was a double yolker, Not a Cadbury's creme egg, though I bought a wee box of 5 today, & same in Terry's choc orange eggs.

That'll feed a lot of Swans, or buy new wellies as they live in the Marsh.

Claimed! They’ll be on top of the world.

don't bother me were the first words that popped into my mind 🎶

Oops

Hurricane1951 That's because you're talking Hey Girl by Freddie Scott the American soul singer, Hey girl don't bother me by The Tams is a completely different song, and much better in my opinion.

@Poppy and Happy, I’ve just replayed the song and I couldn’t find your words in the song at all, possibly you chose someone else’s version with different words or I missed them from the song but they don’t sound familiar to me, however who is right/wrong doesn’t matter so thanks anyway for taking part? X

I’m happy that song bought back good memories for you both, I too love the song by The Tams in 1964

@Beth8it! - Showing our age, we used to sing that at top of our voices, which was quite often as we only had a few dozen vinyls at school & that was one of them.

Hey girl, don't bother me...

I'm gonna miss you so much, if you go

I want you to know

I'm fairly sure Shyboy would have driven the train, given the oppurtunity.

The railway sounds fun. Did you get a close look at the engine controls?

Remember Watchet having a sign "Watchet, please drive carefully" somehow managing to appear to be a deliberate pun.

I trust that there were eggs available for breakfast on Easter Day.

Happy, we stayed at Watchet a couple of years ago. Fab beach at Blue Anchor, watching the sun come up, totally deserted, as I walked the dog.

You had a lovely day, with all the food and places you visited, plus the steam train, wish they were all steam today. Last steam train I went on was in Watchet, years ago.

FP, that was a first time visit and I didn't fill a doggie bag, I was well stuffed.

Barnsdale Gardens sounds great, was that somewhere you’d been before or was it a new experience?

It certainly sounds like you struck lucky with the food, did you collect some of that breakfast buffet for munching on later? 😄

Sounds like you had a good day Shyboy..

I’d agree with that… I love Black Country folks, they’re a great bunch. Many years ago, the company I worked for shut down their operation in Birmingham and offered all the staff there the opportunity to transfer to London, where the work was then to be done. Quite a few from the Black Country were among those who relocated, and when we went out for a drink after work on a Friday, it was good fun. They’d have a few jars, and within a short time they’d be talking what appeared to us Londoners to be a foreign language, slipping back into Black Country dialect and, it seemed to us, sounding even more Black Country than they did at work. Happy days…

More Black country than Brummie.

😂

Spoken like a true Yam-Yam :-)

🤣🤣

Took me a while to get the accent right then I smiled.

😄

Tales

Tails

Heads

Lemon

Lulu

Shout

Twist

Stick (again)

Adhere

Bond

Samantha

Lady

Dinner

Roast

Potato

Jacket

Bomber

Lancaster

Spitfire

Eurofighter

Typhoon 🐷

Whatever

(Hurricane 😊)

Nevertheless

Notwithstanding

sobeit

Awomen

Amen

Omen

Sign

Jailer

Warden

Traffic

Road

Fork

Handle

Door

Stopper

Show

Side

Out

Peg

Tent

Camp

Base

Root.

Looked up marrow rum (Enver's association). Looks interesting, called rum because of the colour.

Square

Shape

Ship

Viking

Helmet

Visor

Sun

Sky

Blue

Navy

Rum

Marrow

Bone

( Humerus )

Humour

Wit

Too

You

Me

Bite

Insect

Stick

Enver, if you get a driver as good as the one we had, you'fe kept guessing right until the destination. Some people moan, why did they book it then? There were 32 of us and had a great time. The driver chose the route. No, there were no roasties but the mash was a very close second. Just wait until I tell you about the second dinner.

Is this a mystery trip where you are driven round in circles through half of England to keep you guessing where you are going? Hope it was spectacular. Bet the driver was glad to rest after all that, would have been worse if lots of traffic. Any chance of some roasties?

One day late but I finally got it. I really should have known the name.

😄

Oh dear Enver, I had to chuckle at that 1😄

Rosy 2 cakes - they only do implants for people who have had Cancer or been involved in an accident, I suppose the students have to learn to do them somewhere. I can’t imagine people wanting to cough up 3k a tooth, only to find the Dentist was a complete novice & had never previously completed the procedure.😱

All other treatments are completely free, crowns, bridges etc. & all ordinary dental repairs.

I suppose that’s why people are prepared to travel long distances. Hopefully it will remain that way. We’ve been receiving treatment there for over 35 years now.

Flowerpower, it is attached to University of Bristol which trains dental students and they complete the treatment, but it's not free unless you are exempt or on benefits. I think it's down to the integrated care board who set local priorities and decide with thechealth trust how the dental hospital will be run.

Pre covid people could just turn up at the emergency dept in the dental hospital and get treated. You'd wait all day to be seen. After Covid that approach changed. If the one you are talking about still does free treatments for anyone ( including implants!! at £3k average price each tooth ) that is astonishing and definitely not the norm.

Lol63, that is standard NHS price . Most dentists will have some sort of payment plan, but people need to ask as dentists do not publicise this.

£300 is an extortionate price for dentures

Ever so slightly OT but I regularly delivered Pigs Heads to Manchester dental Hospital. Apparently they are close to Human teeth/gums.

I believe Liverpool Dental Uni' only do referrals now.

Local Dentist does a one day a week clinic for those with no NHS Dentist.

Hi Rosy 2 cakes, perhaps different ones have different services, I’ve only experienced the one attached to a University, where they train future Dentist, they undertake all dental work & all treatment is free because students need to practice to allow qualification.

Perhaps Bristol is not a training facility, we regularly travel a fair distance to the 1 we use & you can live anywhere in the country, we recently met an older couple from Wiltshire who were there to receive implant treatments after the lady had an accident & broke all her front teeth. All treatments there are free including dentures as students (future Dentists) have to learn all aspects of Dentistry.

There is a long waiting list - 6 months - and treatments are not quick because all work has to be inspected & passed as acceptable at every stage of treatment by the qualified tutors.

However, for those who have no access to an NHS Dentists & cannot afford private treatment, they are a godsend.

Flowerpower, the dental hospital in Bristol only deals with emergency and complex treatment and patients still have to pay NHS fees unless they are on benefits or exempt. They do not do routine treatments. Referral has to be via NHS 111 for emergency treatment or via a dentist or GP. They also support community dental services. So I do not think you can get free dentures any more.

Enver, it's been patched many times now. It is the last survivor of the four Hampshire County Council gave me many years ago.

You should empty the leaking water butt first, then you could patch it up with some tar or paint...

I often find comments take a long time to update between comment pages & My Account --> My Comments & vice-versa. Sometimes they (or parts of them) vanish too, making me think I didn't post or save after editing them.

That frequently happens to me Shyboy, I’m never sure if it’s apple, pmp or just me!

Really irritating when you’ve typed everything out.

You do know you could get your dentures for free from any Dental Hospital, but your nearest is probably London, so maybe not practical to travel unless you can use patient transport.

Look forward to the next post.

Somebody saw and claimed a £5 Flash Draw on 1st April.

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:

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/12-what-is-the-5-flash-draw

I won one, just after they started many years ago. I don't actively look for them, and I doubt that many people do. I stared at it in surprise and disbelief, for a moment, before clicking on it.

I've heard of people who have scrolled past, suddenly realised what they had seen and gone back, only to find that it had vanished!

Only about six people a day might be given one, but will they spot it ... only if they search the whole site. Chances of finding & claiming one considering how many members is about one in a million.

Yes, I think there was a winner last week.

Lyndhurst ('Wooded hill with lime trees growing') ; Ashurst (ash trees) ; Brockenhurst (Badger Wooded hill)

I couldn't walk to Fair Oak. I live fairly near Southampton Docks, about a 15 min drive from them and Fair Oak is the other side of Southampton. Maps says it would take 3 hrs 13 mins to walk there. I doubt I could walk for that amount of time without stopping though. I'd need to find a rest room and have a drink at some point. So it would at least take me 4 hours with a comfort break and probably some catch-your-breath mini breaks in there.

@Em - love it when they say "it's only XX minutes away", I think "but is that normal walking speed or by supersonic jet?"

When we rented a flat in Dublin city, a welshman tried to persuade us to move to his place out in the countryside in Co Limerick & chop down trees to sell as firewood. I looked at the map & I said "We need to be near the cheaper big city shops, cafes & entertainment & the seaside, & you will need a vehicle & permission & means to fell trees, & lots of regular customers", his reply was "everything was max 20 minutes away", ... it looked more like 2 miles of country road to nearest small shop, 15 miles to nearest small city & 50 miles to the nearest coast.

It's only a bit of interaction. It's not as if I set any rules. Not everyone may notice the "show more replies" arrow to drop it down and see them all. Also, perhaps they don't have time to keep coming back and adding all of the ones they have thought of.

For the future I can add 'please only post one at a time to make the game last longer' but it IS only a game and at the end of the day, does it matter? As long as we're having fun thinking of new things to add and interacting with the community.

My addition is:

Fair Oak (Southampton, Hampshire. About 25/30 mins from me)

Gospel Oak

Hurricane 51, the alternative to putting loads of names in one post ( if I'm interpreting your post correctly as one of the ' offenders') is to put one name in several separate posts, so I don't see how that is any different. What about people who repeat names ( again I'm guilty of that with Burnt Oak) ? The reason I put several in my post was because I was looking at a Tube / DLR map and realised how many were tree linked.

This is not meant as a criticism of your post just an alternative view.

@Cakey, Percy Vere & Hopeful2B , sorry about that, my geography is not perfect - dunno where I got it, now edited.

@Flower Power - The tree was illegally felled in 2023 by Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers, but has since sprouted from the stump.

@Hurricane1951 - tend to agree with you, but others may not think of some of them..

Admin, could you confirm something for me, I know it’s only fun but it’s also a bit unfair, in my opinion, quizzes like the place names that have a tree name in them above, I don’t believe that one person should be allowed to put loads of answers which make it unfair on other people who wanted to put a name up but feels like they can’t because someone has already put it up, also I don’t think duplicated names should be used as it would be nice to see just how many different answers we can come up with and finally on that particular topic the question said place names but didn’t say anything about street names which is very different from place names? I understand that people would think I’m picking at straws as the saying goes and I’ll reiterate that I know it’s for fun, I am also aware that it could be my self diagnosed Autism that could have an effect on my thinking but that is what I believe in, is fairness and to stick to the question? Thanks everybody for your understanding of me?

Aspen Colorado.

Ashton under Lyne

Cork 🌳

Elmina, Washington DC

Cakey, I was born in Newton-le-willows when it was still in Lancashire, and the majority of people probably wish it still was.

Woodstock -or is that cheating? 😄

TEAKettle Wood

Cyprus. Ewelme. Cherry Hinton.

Beachy Head (with the correct spelling :o) )

Hazelwood

Appleby

Fir Park (Motherwell)

Limehouse

Nine elms

Poplar

Burnt oak

All in London

Ashby-de-la-zouch

Lime Grove.

Mountain Ash, Wales

Maple crescent, near me.

Cheating a bit

Elm Street, where I went to infant school 75 years ago.

Palm Springs (California)

Cakey,

I did a double take when I saw where my neighbouring Newton le Willows had migrated to. I live nearby, in Ashton in Makerfield

Orange County (USA)

Sycamore Gap err! now minus the Sycamore, thanks to the morons.

Aintree as in Standing Tree

Burnt Oak (London)

Appledore (Kent)

Appledore (Devon)

Enver what have you done? You have moved Newton le Willows north and east from its correct location in Merseyside.

Okehampton

elmshurst

Lyme Regis

Will I get away with Dewsbury (dewberries). You did say even spelt wrong.

Beechy Head 😉

Firbeck (near Doncaster)

London (London plane tree)

Appleton, Warrington

Oakham Rutland

Selly Oak (an area of Birmingham)

Birchwood

Ashton-under-Lyne.

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobllllantysiliogogogoch.

Village on Anglesey translates to St Mary's church in the hollow of the White Hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the church of St Tysilio of the red cave.

Try saying that lot after a couple of glasses of wine!!

Newton le willows (Durham), Edit: OOps - it's in Merseyside🙄.

Braintree, Tiptree, Manningtree (Essex).,

Unter den Linden [Limetrees](Berlin).

Brazil.

Wavertree, Knotty Ash (Liverpool).

Poplar, Nine Elms (London).

Appletreewick (N Yorks).

Heavitree (Exeter).

Betws y Coed [Coed=tree] (N Wales),

Ashford (Kent)

Sevenoaks

But I'M afraid of your process.

I am not afraid of winning Em lol

I'm afraid that you're doing it wrong. 😂

😆😆😆

But what if they see you put them up. Then they'll moderate their behaviour. 😂

@ANN, that’s a brilliant answer, I love it! 😂🤣😂🤣

There are cameras you can set up so you can watch what they all get up to when you're out.

Most have an optional refresh🔃sign to change it in case you can't do it.

The top bar would have had Pure Spectrum's URL in it as you would have been taken to their website to complete the survey. A screenshot showing that the continue button was greyed out after you had agreed to the terms would be enough to pass on to them, if it happens again.

@PicklestTheKat: there was, I accepted cookies (there didn't seem to be any option to accept just some, it was all or nothing) but it still refused to play nicely.

@Marie: there was nothing helpful to screenshot really, no useful info on the screen and just the PMP web address in the top bar IIRC. I'm not losing sleep over it but it was irksome.

In this situation, it might also be worth checking to see if there is a text line or box at the bottom of the page asking if you agree to optional cookies. I had one a couple of weeks ago that wouldn't let me go further until I had checked that box, then the continue button became 'live'. Not saying they're all the same, but that was definitely a Pure Spectrum one. Clear your cookies after your session if you want.

We have an FAQ about technical issues with external surveys: https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/156-technical-issues-with-external-surveys

If this happens again, please take a screenshot of the issue and send it to us at admin@pickmypostcode.com, granting us permission to share your details with Pure Spectrum (or whoever the external survey company is if it is someone different next time). We will then be able to let them know there is a technical issue with one of their surveys so that they can find and fix it.

Did he mention the table tennis table?

Don't forget to mention the food.

I stayed at Sedgebrook Hall a couple of years ago. Didn't have any problems with the Wifi or PMP being blocked (I actually worked from there). Their Internet provider must have changed their settings recently, as we have had a spike in reports of us being blocked by some ISPs.

Welcome back Shyboy👋

Will look forward to it Shyboy...

😂

Oh dear! 😂

Gave me a laugh!

😂😂 nice one !!

Very good one. Made me laugh out loud.

Did i chuckle :-) :-) :-)

🤣🤣

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