The results are in.....

I know that some of you have been waiting very patiently (or not) for me to announce the winner of the Blogiversary Giveaway. For the sake of fairness, I used a random number generator which I've been trying for the past hour to embed into this post but I cannot make it work!! I don't know if I've messed up the HTML code or something technological!!! The only thing I can think of to do is to take a picture of each number.....apologies that it looks so unprofessional!!!  OK.....drumroll please.......the winners are..................................

The winner of the London Tote Bag is:

Number 5 was Crystal Jigsaw!  Yay you!

The winner of the Lipstick & Mascara is:

Number 8 was Kati C!!!

The Splishy Fire Hydrant:

Number 7 was Katie from Feeding Boys!!

The iPhone case goes to:

Number 11 is Limey.  Congrats Lady.

Lets Go to School DVD:

Number 12 was Donna!

Last but not least the gorgeous travel diary:

The lucky winner is Nelly!!!

For all you lucky winners: To claim your prize you need to e-mail me at adventuresofanenglishmum@gmail.com and let me have your address by Monday 2nd August.  If I haven't heard from you by then I'll re-draw and send the prize to someone else!!!

Commiserations to my lovely readers that didn't win a prize but I will hopefully be doing another giveaway soon so stay tuned!!!

The Gallery - Nature

Now most of you will know that I'm not a nature person.  I don't do mud or rain so when I saw this weeks's Gallery theme was 'Nature' I was a little bit lost to what pictures I may use.  There is a prize for this week's best gallery entry of a Green & Blacks Hamper......yum.....so I at least had to have a bash!!!

Once I started going through my pictures I did discover a couple of cool shots. This is one of my favourite walks in the winter:

This next picture was taken at Lake McKenzie which is on Fraser Island in Australia.  It is one of the most beautiful places that I've ever been too! 

As much as I love the two pictures above my favourite ever view is this:

It was taken at Glenfinnan in Scotland when we were on holiday there a few years ago!!  

Next week I'm going to make a concerted effort to get out and take new pictures for the Gallery......fingers crossed it'll be something simple like 'your child'!!!!!! ;-)

Fundraising for Kilimanjaro

I can't believe it's Monday again already....someone stole my weekend!!!   A while ago some of my beautiful and crazy friends decided that they would climb Kilimajaro in January 2011 to raise some money for a local charity.  Rainbows is the only hospice in the East Midlands that offers a place for life limited children and their families to find care and support.  You can find out more information here. They are a pretty amazing bunch at Rainbows but it costs £2.8 million per year to run and so any money they can raise is obviously a great help.

As the banner says my lovely Ladies are trying to raise at least £10,000 to help Rainbows and if you fancy helping them out you can sponsor them by clicking here!  They are thinking up a lot of fun ways to help them raise the money and so on Saturday I found myself with my friend Carol, who was here for the weekend, at a pamper session at one of our local restaurants.  The first thing we were welcomed with was champagne so straight away you know it's going to be my kind of event!!!

Awesome way to spend a Saturday afternoon me thinks.  Chick also got in on the action and had a facial:

We both had manicures....oooohhhhh pretty!

This is Chick with Fundraiser and Climber extraordinaire Vicky:

Me and my girl sharing some love:

The last event that they held was a Wimbledon Garden Party (when I was at CyberMummy!!!) and from what I understand that was also pretty damn cool.  I can't wait to see what brilliant ideas they come up with for the next fundraiser but I'm sure if any of you guys has any bright and original ideas to raise money then the girls would love to hear about them!!!!

Single 34 year old seeks.......

I’ve been single for a long while now and my friends have been trying to convince me that internet dating is the way forward.  Now, I don’t believe them but after reading about every man and his dog meeting people on t’interweb and getting married I thought maybe I ought to re-visit it! 

Seriously BIG mistake.  After wasting a good hour of my life trawling through pages of ‘eligible bachelors’ let me offer you guys who are genuinely trying to meet a girl some advice:

-          Get rid of the crap user name.  It may be what the lads have called you for the last 10 years but quite frankly I don’t need a ‘stud muffin’ in my life!

-          Put some clothes on in your profile pictures......okay? Thanks!

-          For the love of god learn to spell.....if you don’t know how, turn on spell check or find a dictionary.

-          If the bio line is the first thing Ladies see then writing ‘I don’t do this’ is quite ridiculous.

-          If you have ‘in a relationship’ as a status.....f*ck off!  Seriously I feel really sorry for you and your Partner and it’s only a matter of time before you are caught!

-          Try and find a more amusing bio-line than ‘caring man seeks caring woman’.....Yawn!!!  If you aren’t capable of coming up with one ask a female friend to help so I at least feel like there’s hope in the dating world.

-          Complete your profile page as much as possible!  It’s a deal breaker for me knowing how tall you are and if you want any more kids!

-          Sending me e-mails that indicate you just want sex.....just don’t do it for me!!

I don’t think that I’m fussy when it comes to men (although my friends may disagree) but there are a couple of things that I really need:

-          You have to be at least 6 ft tall.  I’m 5’ 11” and call me old fashioned but I will not be dating anybody that is 5’ 5”!

-          The spelling thing really annoys me.....see point 2 above ;-)

-          I don’t need a partner that earns a huge amount and I don’t care if you are a dustbin man or

what your profession may be.  Someone that earns under £20k is probably not gonna do it for me on an internet dating site though!  (yeah...I’m shallow.....I need someone that will buy  me Louboutins at least once a year!!!)

So, it’s looking likely that I’m not going to find my match on the t’interweb...anyone got any other bright ideas?????