Did you see our amazing new tv ad at the weekend? If you missed it, you can see it here and you can also win some amazing prizes if you can tell us how many thumbs there were in the ad.
play a part in tv history
On Saturday 28 February at 9.50pm, watch us on telly and win a big bundle of good stuff.
We're creating a television first - and we want you to be part of it. Tune into ITV on Saturday 28 February at 9.50pm. Three 60 second adverts will be aired, straight after each other, starting on ITV, moving to Channel 4 and then ending on Channel 5.
It's going to be the world's first Mexican wave of thumbs up... spanning the channels and spreading the good stuff, right around the UK. Watch the three adverts and guess the number of thumbs you see.
Visit this special page after the ad and tell us how many thumbs you think you saw. Simple!
- You could win a great big bundle of good stuff including:
- a two-night 4* city break to Barcelona for 2
- a two-night spa break at Thoresby Hall, Nottinghamshire with use of spa and treatments
- a pair of theatre tickets to see Sister Act
- a 3 course meal for 2 and a bottle of wine at Brasserie Roux, London
- plus a Silverstone Thrill drive experience in Northamptonshire for two
- And we have great runner-up prizes with 5 four night stays in top hotels.
Visit here to enter on Saturday night
Dan Pilkington
Kate, Dan and Sean’s need to know – our top 6 deals of the week
Sorry it’s only short but here are our favourite deals that we’ve spotted so far this week
- T in the park tickets – available 9am on Friday
- Ski holidays for £99 – available 10 am on Thursday
- 50% off tickets to Carousel
- Pamper day - £20 spa deal, includes a treatment and you can take your mate for free
- Have a meal on us – free meal with top show tickets
- Eurostar to Paris + champagne for £69 return
Kate is our resident ski angel and is unbelievably competitive. Never ever ever ever ask to join her training groups and if you see her coming down the mountain then get out of her way quickly or you will be sorry. She also loves The Killers, Kings of Leon and Chris Hoy.
Dan is a former music journalist, is our resident musical expert and loves bands named after inanimate objects. Never ever ever ever ask him if he knows anywhere good to go when the pub shuts,unless you want sit on sofas held together with gaffer tape in bar that only sells 1 lager (always overly strong). It will however have a great stereo and will have featured on the album cover of a 1960s EP that only ever sold 60 copies,
Sean moved back to the UK after living all over the world for years. He basically writes about shows, booze filled antics, about avoiding tourists and not paying top whack to get in anywhere. He still misses Mark and Lard being on Radio 1 and is possibly the clumsiest person in the Northern Hemisphere. Also he is stupidly scared of dogs and thinks that everyone needs at least 7 cups of coffee a day to keep their heart running (all with biscuits to dunk of course).
Good stuff legends #2 – Stephen “Burnley Ste” Henaghan (travel blog guru)
We’re keeping our eye out for the leaders in the field of doing more good stuff and we stumbled upon this amazing travel story online. Leaving their sunshine jobs on the sunshine island of Ibiza behind, Ste and Aimee set of round the world doing as much good stuff as possible on the way.When your Facebook status reads “in Hanoi. It's darn cloudy!”, then you tend to make us back home damn jealous.
We first heard about Ste back in 2002 when he was making himself a legend to golden oldies of the Costa Del Sol. Then via stops across Europe he ended splitting his time between Ibiza (amazing), Burnley (not so good, but better than Blackburn) and the frozen alps. Sounds like something out of cocktail – summers in New York and then Winters in the Caribbean, pure genius.
Now he’s doing us proud. South America has been conquered. Australia has been reclaimed and now South East Asia trembles at the thought of his incredibly accurate and uncompromising blog reviews. If you like your reviews to be impartial and straight to the point, then Ste is definitely the man to know.
You can subscribe to Ste and Aimee’s blog here or if you they inspire you to travel the world (or simply go on an amazing holiday) then you can book multi stop round the worlds flights here
Sean Collins
We’ll keep you updated on Ste and Aimee’s world tour over the coming months. If you know someone else with an amazing story to tell then why not let us know by leaving a comment on these pages. You can even add this blog as note on your facebook page and it will automatically keep you in the now.
Sean moved back to the UK after living all over the world for years. He basically writes about booze filled antics, about avoiding tourists and not paying top whack to get in anywhere. He still misses Mark and Lard being on Radio 1 and is possibly the clumsiest person in the Northern Hemisphere. Also he is stupidly scared of dogs and thinks that everyone needs at least 7 cups of coffee a day to keep their heart running (all with biscuits to dunk of course).
Following in the footsteps of Bond and the hamster, the world's largest Indoor Skydiving venue
I never had the desire to jump out of a plane. I never wanted to feel the wind beneath my hair. I certainly never trusted my hand eye coordination to save me from certain doom. When it was suggested to me that I should do this excursion, the conversation went a bit like this;
Dan "This week we want you to go indoor skydiving"
Sean"No chance"
Dan"No seriously, we want you to go into skydiving"
Sean"No chance"
Dan"Get a move on, you're going to miss your train"
Sean"Nope"
Dan"Move, Now!"
So after a quick diversion to the toilet (and to next), I set off to the centre just outside Bedford
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Take on your own Amazon
We were beginning to get fed up with people coming back from their holidays and telling stories of how they swam with dolphins, climbed waterfalls or went white water rafting! It's not they aren't great things to do, it's just that we were starting to get a bit jealous.
So if we couldn't afford a holiday to the real Amazon, where could we do it over here? We also set ourselves a limit. It had to cost under £50 each including travel and a post raft beer.
Find your favourite album cover
Ever fancied gathering your mates together and reshooting your favourite album cover, but with you as the star? Here's a few ideas of ones that you can remake quite quickly.
More than just a pile of bricks
We'd already booked our tickets and were ready for our day out - or at least my nephew, Jake was!
If I'm honest I was dreading Legoland, Windsor on a sunny Sunday in June thinking we would have to queue to get off the M4, then have to queue to get into the park itself and then for all the rides but actually it was a breeze. Armed with a picnic and a few toys for the car, we left London for our 40 minute journey at about 9:15am to make sure we got there for the 10am opening.
Become a Gladiator
Let's be fair, I don't look much like an athelete, certainly not a Gladiator. In fact on my last visit to Thorpe Park the staff had to double check that I could fit in the rollercoaster restraints (not one of my finest moments). I thought that my sporting days were long gone, until someone mentioned Zorbing. Surely even I could do that!
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