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I can't even remember how to spell my name ... as you can see.

I keep remembering phone numbers from years ago, no idea whose they are now.

But take me somewhere & I'll be able to find it again.

What was the question again?

I used to have a great memory, I could remember most things. Now, if I want to be sure to remember things, I have to write them down!

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Congratulations 🎊

Great news Ray 🎊💥

Absolutely fantastic win, Ray - well spotted and congratulations 👍!

LLAP 🖖!

Well spotted Ray. Enjoy spending your winnings and keep checking. Lightening does strike twice.

Well done and obviously well worth the wait

Congrats, Ray 🎉

Well done Ray, treat yourself. ,,I know Cn is still checking but no longer comments. Where have all the whingers gone this weekend?

Got to be honest, I saw "Anonymous" and capital letters . . . And the weekend - And thought the worst! But ... Lovely post, great news - congrats! 🍾👍

Well done, enjoy the money! I have been looking forward to winning for 8 years. One day it will happen xx

THANKS EVERYONE FOR ALL YOUR CONGRATULATIONS, BELIEVE IT OR NOT MY MOTTO SINCE I WAS A TEENAGER--(IM A RECYCLED ONE NOW) HAS ALWAYS BEEN--"PERCEVERENCE IS A VIRTUE--JUST HAVE PATIENCE IN ALL ASPECTS OF LIFE FOLKS-BECAUSE THE WAY THE WORLDS GOING-WE ARE ALL GONNA NEED IT--GOOD LIUCK EVERYONE

Congratulations !!!!!

Congratulations on your win, Ray. What a great bonus to have won. Enjoy.

🥳🥳🥳 Enjoy!

Congrats Ray. Enjoy your win, treat yourself.

Wonderful to hear of your good fortune, Ray, with such a significant bonus, too!

Good on you!

Congratulations on your win Ray! 🎉

Wow many congratulations 👏👏👍👍

Fabulous!

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🎉🎉🎉

Great stuff! Enjoy your spends!👍

Congrats!

Well done Ray. It just shows that perseverance can be rewarded. This should be posted in big bold red letters and pinned to shut up the doubters.

Whooo hooo!👏🎉🥂🍾

Congratulations Ray, I've been on here since about 2015 forever hopeful lol, enjoy your win. 👌😁

Congratulations Ray. Always good to hear and hope you enjoy your winnings 🤩

Congratulations Ray on getting a great win 💰👍🤗

Congratulations Ray that’s fantastic, I hope you treat yourself to a lovely holiday or something nice.

Very sorry to hear about your wife, I’m sure she is looking down on you very happy for your win (if you believe in that), and possibly nudged you back on here for your winnings!

Well done, Ray! Congratulations! 🎉🎊🎉

THANKS FOR THAT.MY WIFE DIED 3YRS AGO AND DIDNT COME ON HERE FOR AWHILE-HAVE BEEN FOR LAST 18MONTHS-SO ARENT I GLAD I CAME BACK

Great stuff, Ray. Well done.

I joined in 2016 so I shall be on the lookout for my postcode appearing soon.

Dave Moore (Comfortably Numb) is at no.38 on the leaderboard, so is still participating and will probably see your comment.

Aww well done fella

Well done you, like a Ray of sunshine...

Congratulations🥳. I'm really pleased for you.

Nicely spotted Ray.

🎉 Congrats 🎉

Really pleased that you won, Ray with such a fantastic bonus!

Congrats Ray. Brilliant news. Well done for persevering and building up a big bonus. Proof that any age can successfully complete surveys.

Congratulations Ray. Hope you'll be spoiling yourself 🎁🥳

THANK YOU. IF DAVE{COMFORTABLY NUMB} IS STILL ABOUT-ITS ME RAY-WE USED TO HAVE A LOT OF BANTER

Congrats Ray, great bonus, enjoy your win🥂🍾

Thanks for posting, gives us all hope & should shut up all the weekend moaners!

That's amazing Ray, well done.

😂@Digby dog.

Sorry about that, Digby dog. The computer's funny like that 😂

If only it worked that way lol.

🤣

You're barking up the wrong tree Digby dog.

😄 Good try, Digby Dog.

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We do ask that members do not use an ad blocker. The ads are what allow us to remain free and it doesn't matter if you are not interested in it. We still get the revenue from the view.

Advertisers CAN (& probably do) record the time & number of clicks on each of their adverts from various sites, & the resulting sales from each. If there's not enough sales from any particular site, it is not so likely they will be advertising on that site in the future.

When I was on a college computer course, I know the lecturer could see exactly who accessed any site, what date & time it was, & how long they spent on it, ... maybe even all that they looked at.

Chris. That's all fair enough, but the part you missed out is that this site, PMP, does lose out by anyone blocking the ad because (I assume) they get paid by the number of ads shown. So if, for example, 1% of all members used an adblocker, then PMP would lose 1% of its revenue from ads.

You're right Enver, a warning would probably be better.

@Chris, I don't have a television so am unable to comment.

Thanks for the replies to my suggestion about adblockers.

Would you feel the same way about, say, commercial television - that because ITV is funded by advertising, it is unethical to mute the ads or to leave the room and make a cup of tea while they are on?

Yes, ads fund this site. But if I am not going to purchase a product then it doesn't really matter to the advertiser whether or not I view the ad. To use the Stansted example - I'm not going to be flying anywhere soon and, if I did, I wouldn't be making a 200 mile journey each way to use Stansted if a flight was available from closer to home. So the airport isn't losing out in any way by my blocking the ad.

@ samandi - but some newby (or older person) might not know about this rule, how to find out if they have - or turn off the Ad Blocker, or could simply forget to turn it off, or update to a new version of a browser not knowing the updated version contains an Ad blocker. It would not be fair to remove them from the site, but if detected using an Ad Blocker could be automatically directed to a message tellng them what's wrong & how to correct it.

You make a good point there samandi.

I wonder, could using an ad blocker be seen as a form of cheating? Perhaps those doing so could be tracked and removed from the site. None of us like ads but if you want to play the game fairly, you have to put up with them.

Wow. Reading the above has made me realise that closing an ad using the X must be a lot harder on a mobile device. I'm sorry for those afflicted with this issue :( Very glad I have a laptop!

I haven't seen the Stanstead ad, but when an ad gets in the way changing the orientation of my tablet nearly always gets rid of it.

No

I wouldn’t as I know that ads fund the site but this particular one is quite annoying.

Yes, please don’t use an adblocker

I understood that this site is funded by ads and that that's where the prize money comes from. I could be wrong.

Edit : Oops. Thanks Mrs F

Ads fund this site and the prizes so an ad blocker is not recommended

Try an adblocker. Plenty of free ones out there, some of which work better with one browser than with others.

Oh, and disable cookies and location in your settings.

Yes me too

Yep, think we've all had it at somepoint. Similar Ad's can be quite persistent !

If you are deft of finger there is an X to hit.

A bit like Wackamole ?

This from the FAQ gives you some idea how to close it.

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Did you take the weekend off?

Good one ZtG! 😂

LOL @ZtG.

I done 5 marathons in 7 days when I was about 25 (late eighties). Not quite as demanding as you may think. It was just before they changed name to snickers and was a multipack.

🥇🏅 !st person to finish today was in 1h:59m:30s, assuming it's 26 miles, that's an amazing average of about 20 feet per second.

Did your leg recover after that Alan?

Used to run a lot of sub-3h marathons back in the day when I was at my peak - but my peak was a long time ago.

The only time I ran the London marathon it was well over five hours. My excuse was that my right leg was plastered and bandaged after I damaged my knee and ligaments kick boxing the week before. Was doing alright until I reached Tower Bridge and my knee felt like it had exploded and I basically hobbled the rest of the way, dragging my leg behind me.

I had a hospital appointment 48 hours afterwards and for some inexplicable reason the doctor swore at me for ten minutes straight when he looked at my leg and listened to my explanation. Didn't seem to understand that I *had* to run the marathon as I had a few hundred pounds of sponsorship money for the British Limbless Ex-Servicemen's Association that I had already been given, and they had sent me a tie (which I still have), so I couldn't not do it, could I?

I've run London marathon previously dressed as Spider-man (not very original, given the number of people saying "it's Spider-man...again"!) and I've run sub-3h there... but not both things at the same time 😆

Anyone see the Boston (I think) one last week? One guy was collapsing near the finish line and two others helped him up and practically carried him to the end, giving up their own best times to do it. It turned out one of the rescuers was collapsing too - they took him in the wheelchair for medicaid before the first guy. That’s a couple of decent human beings.

My son-in-law ran the London Marathon once. A woman in front of him dropped a full water bottle which he trod on and twisted his ankle. She did apologize and he still managed to finish. Can't remember his time but it was still quite respectable.

I will be running in spirit, watching it and drinking coffee! I don't know anyone who is running but a friend of mine his daughter has done it a couple of times.

Ha! One of my worst injuries came from 'relaxing into a fall!' My horse was trotting down hill and I was leading his mother on a lead-rein. He has been trained not to let a led horse go ahead of him (from teaching kids to ride) but his mother wasn't standing for him trying to keep her back, and they were snapping at ach other, when he fell, went down on his knees and I realised I was going over. 'Fall like a jockey' I actually had time to think, and tucked my head in, arms round me so I didn't do my collar-bone, wrist etc, thought 'Roll' - and landed on a tree stump, cracked three ribs, popped the inner end of my collar bone and broke two fingers from the rein getting caught round my hand. I thought my collar bone was broken, and wondered how the **** I was going to get home, when my old mare took her son in hand and bit him severely, making him stand still so I could climb on the higher ground to get on. I tucked the injured hand inside my coat zip, dropped the reins and we walked nearly two miles home, up tracks we have always galloped, and my old pony wouldn't let my boy break out of a walk. Incredible little mare, and many other occasions when she showed something other than 'normal' horse behaviour. It still hurt, though!

No. I am pretty good, hardly ever drop/break things and have never had a fall, apart from recently when I stepped sideways while watering the garden pots and caught my foot on a slightly uneven paving stone. Luckily the skill at falling I picked up, many years ago, learning and teaching judo stood me in good stead. I relaxed Into the fall and didn't get a bruise or a scrape. Not bad for an old lady! 😄

Beth. I had the same reason. Working security the last thing you want is to advertise your presence.

Definitely better night vision without a torch, which focuses everything on the beam and blacks out all the surrounding environment. Plus, when walking in a wood, anyone else out there would see the torch from a long way off, but you wouldn’t see them at all.

I am the same as you Beth8it, the dark never bothers me (unless trying to read), I often walkaround the house without lights on. It's probably due to growing up in a village with no street lights, the brain remembers where the hazards are and steers you around them.

I am not normally a clumsy person but I do occasionally trip or fall. At my age I find it easier to fall than it is to get up.

My son was told his (minor) issues were due to poor communications between left and right sides of his brain. As a child, he never crawled, took an age to tie his shoelaces, couldn't do monkey bars. He has one permanently dilated pupil (like David Bowie). He's always injuring himself, and he's right handed and left footed. He has very poor spelling, our daughter who has Down's Syndrome is better. In spite of all this, he got a good degree from Edinburgh Uni and now has a very good job in Oil and Gas

Nick, I can still walk round the house in the dark, although I have now put a strip of fluorescent tape on the step that I tripped up. It's brilliant - no light needed, it just shows faintly at night so I don't fall up or down it (thanks Temu). I walked the track back from the horses' field for over 30 years and never used a torch in the dark, but I do take one when I go out now in the dark.

I have always been clumsy. Drove my Dad mad, and I broke many things as a youngster which generally ended up with me being punished by Dad. I'm still clumsy now and my hubby can't understand why. I've read about dyspraxia, and some of the symptoms are definitely me, ie I can't catch or throw a ball, I stumble a lot, and I'm not good with spatial awareness. I was totally useless at sports, swimming and anything that requires hand / eye coordination such as hitting a ball. It's probably a contributory factor to me taking 5 goes to pass my driving test as well! I still very much struggle with visual perception and cannot visualise designs for anything unless it's drawn for me. I can't work out games like tetris either!

Have been clumsy since childhood, always breaking things and having silly accidents. You get used to it !!

Complete opposite. I regularly walk around the house in complete darkness. I don't see the point in using lights at night when I don't need them.

I never used to be but most definitely am now. I walk into things, burn myself, drop things and generally get annoyed with myself for doing all of them.

Not until the stroke but since It's a nightmare.

Yes, a bit, particularly over the last few years! But there have really been genuine reasons, rather than carelessness, in most cases, and like Glitter, I am trying to take a bit more care nowadays. (Says she, who fell over two days ago - not my fault! Walking in the woods, on last year’s leaves, there was a hole under the leaves and I turned my ankle and went flat.) I found it is very difficult to get up with a Labrador snuffling round me trying to see if I am OK, and two labrador pups attacking the food in my pockets and climbing over me to get to it. Mercenary little termites!

Yes - I can trip over a floor... If something's there to be walked into, I'll walk into it... I'll frequently go to pick up a cup of tea, and miss getting hold of the handle - but rest assured I'll hit the handle hard enough to spill the tea…

I'm far from perfect, but the one thing that I really hate about myself is how clumsy I am. It’s frustrated me all my life.

Not particularly except for on the lead up to a migraine when I have a tendency to drop things and can't judge distances, so end up walking into things (usually the corner of a cabinet). Often end up with several colourful bruises.

Yes I am clumsy and like Poppy walking into furniture door frames etc

I am improving as not rushing around so much

Lol 63 🤣🤣

Yes, I am. I usually have bruises on my legs from walking into the corners of furniture and often manage to get burns when cooking! I also tripped on holiday and fell flat on my face, ended up with a black eye!

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Sorry, leant on the keyboard there.

Mine hasn't come up since 2017 !! Just before I started

Gazankulu, I've seen a few of mine in recent days with just one digit out or over the road, so maybe we will both be winners (me again) soon!

Keep your account active and you never know.

Thanks Marie and AJR, I appreciate it!

Good luck James.

We look forward to reading it.

Thanks Cookies - and everyone else! We made it to 272. That's an absolutely incredible number for any one-person research study, but for one at a Master's level? I was hoping to get maybe 100 or 150 people. To be fewer than 30 away from 300 is absolutely amazing, and so many of my participants have come from these comments. Thank you all very much indeed. I will provide a link to a summary of my results come June.

Completed.

Thanks Thunderbird!

Done

Thanks Becca, I really appreciate it!

Just completed, very interesting survey 😊

A friend introduced me to another friend & while six of us had a holiday together. The other friend had trotters but recovered the next day, four days later I asked her out & we got married a few years later,

...and the pigs still had trotters...

Not to eat Beth. I also remember podged rag rugs.

Go on, Barrie, you can remember when the blankets were made of wool…

I remember pigs in blankets being real bacon & proper sausage not the cheap rubbish sold ready made in supermarkets.

And a subscription to BUPA?

Ever tried a pig-in-a-blanket-in-a-duvet-and-a-sleeping-bag?

Sausage, wrapped in bacon, baked in pastry, then battered and deep fried.

Followed by a course of Statins and possibly a couple of stents.

My neck is aching last 3 days, must be the way I sleep.

National Pigs-in-a-blanket Day in April?! Seems unusual, but maybe they're not just for Christmas!

No, I make a decision and stick with it. Then I look back on my decision, see how I felt about it, and either amend it, cancel it or say, ‘Yep, quite right.’ But I do make a decision. Well, usually…

This is going to keep me awake at night!

50/50

Definitely indecisive.

Ummmm

I used to be indecisive, but now I am no so sure.

Very indecisive!

Both I think 🤷‍♀️

Same as Cakey.

Sometimes.

I am a Libran, supposedly very balanced, we can see both sides of an argument; see the merits of each choice so find it hard to make a decision.

Usually but I need all the information first.

Hang on…err… give me a minute and I’ll let you know…..

I tend to describe it as considering and weighing up all the options.

Depends what I'm doing.

Driving ? Is it safe ? yes. Go !

Buying anything of value ? If there are more than three options I've got no chance.

Decisive, can't be doing with dithering.

Yes

I'm not sure.

Can I have a think about it, and maybe tell you tomorrow?

I was decisive but I'm not so sure now 🤣

Each, depending on circumstances

What was the question ;-) ;-)

I’ll pass for now and think about it 🙄🙄

Having considered all the options, I'm decisive.😊

Decisive …

I think 😀

I'm not sure

A friend of mine, a Squaddie, failed his Tank Driving test for lying ?

His instructor gave him a misdirection and he hit a parked van, you can imagine, the van did not fare well.

The test was stopped and the Examiner asked what went wrong. Friend said he misjudged. Not wanting to drop instructor in it.

Later his instructor gave him a rollicking. Tell the truth !

First off if I make a mistake it doesn't affect your test.

Second and more importantly, if it a serious incident, they will find out.

You can mitigate, but do not lie.

Yea, our company ran a 'no blame culture'. It was just your fault.

It would drive me potty with each level of management blaming the one below, lying through their teeth.

Problems would take weeks or months to be sorted just so a 'shirt' would not lose face. 😕

@MickmeDad - I've ruined many a 'blame' meeting by admitting "I made a mistake/I got it wrong/I forgot"

My boss reckoned I saved hours of debate and recriminations and ruined the meetings.

He also thought that I did it on purpose to ruin a senior managers day!

🧙‍♂️🧑‍🦯🤣

At work I was really good at it - we saw a visitor approach the office and my bosses said, ‘Quick, we’re not here - don’t let her in!’ Well, you can’t stop someone coming in, so I spent 20 minutes listening to her problem with her roof, all about the contractor who had ‘fixed’ it, promised I would pass it on when my bosses ‘got back’ but that they were both out on site visits at the moment - pity you missed them…etc. I thought it went OK, she stomped off reasonably happy and I got a big hug from one of the bosses when the cowards crawled out of hiding. As the visitor could see into their office on the way out, they must have hidden below the window sills. A secretary’s job covers a lot of different duties!

@BobuD, seen it to many times, trying to make excuses thinking it will make it better, then getting tied in knots.

I must have lied in the past but I can't now remember the last time I did.

I am a terrible liar, whatever I am thinking is written all over my face!

Depends on who it's to so if it's a cold caller then yes I'm pretty good at lying otherwise I'm not xx

I lie to protect my privacy, otherwise I'm honest

@MickmeDad - absolutely. Also you don't need to remember what lies you've told, and to who. Much less stressful

I actually would say that I am, not that I often do so you understand 😊

Always told guys in work to tell truth if asked questions by Hierarchy.

Tell truth and you cant go wrong.

I go red and look guilty and, like Shyboy, I wouldn't remember what I'd said to whom so would be caught out! Easier to just be honest.

No, I'm not even good at telling the truth if anyone understands what I mean! If I was accused of something I hadn't done I'd look guilty anyway so I certainly couldn't lie my way out of a fix!

My memory is not good enough to be a liar.

I'd be lying if I said I was.

🤣😅 me too Barrie, it's the only time I don't blush if I even think about lying...

Only to spam callers.

They blamed me for everything & said I was telling lies, ... so I must have been good at it.❓

Derek, 🤣🤣

No would go bright red and look guilty if I tried!

"No, definitely not, anyone would know straight away that I was lying!" is that you Sir Keir?

No, definitely not, anyone would know straight away that I was lying!

Closest was 20 yards away (houses opposite my window) IIRC there were 4 or 5 registered but nobody claimed.

I know the feeling.....

You're definitely included Earnestly7, but I'm afraid complaining will make no difference to your chances of winning! 😊

A guy told me that he complained to Premium Bonds that he hadn’t been included in the draws. He won 3 months later. I tried his tactic. 30 years later, I’m still waiting! Now, I don’t think I’m included in the pickmypostcode draws!😍

Looks like you meant to reply to badlife but started a new thread by mistake. This, from the FAQ explains how it works... https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/109-how-do-i-reply-to-a-comment

Badlife, maybe you are just a loser across the board? I've won twice and so can confirm that it's not fake.

By the way. There are some excellent free online courses in English to which you might subscribe. And I don't think that they are fake either.

I bet you support Arsenal.

Millwall Alan, what a brilliant analasys. Only this morning my OH & I were trying to make sense of a post on Farcebook about a problem with a water pump fitted to a Campervan. If only the query had contained capitals and full stops, it would have helped.

I didnot say in weekand!! I checked 2 time per day no way .and about free lottery sure but for you not free ,you win from all company you did advert for it. . . . EH???!!!!??? Millwall - love your Bedlam comment !

200 years ago people would make day trips to Bedlam so they could point at the lunatics and laugh.

Today we just have to read the comments section (here, or just about anywhere else online).

See how much we have progressed as a species?

Badlife. Are you aware of how many postcodes there are?

I think he objects to Pick Media being a company that makes money from adverts, pays it's staff, pays it's taxes, pays out to the lucky winners and (hopefully) makes a profit. Somehow, the fact that this is how the World goes around has passed him/her by. PMP is not a charity, it's a business - get over it

Crickey Beth8it, he may just be doing that now....🤣🤣

Maybe he/she expects to collect on the survey bonuses? Badlife, you are one of many thousands - it’s not ‘take it in turns and you will win one day’ any more than the National Lottery is. If you want that system, you enter a sweepstake, not a lottery.

Of course, if you have been doing this for 9 years, and are not just making it up to try and wind up everyone else, why haven’t you already learned this fact from all the others who mistakenly try to claim it’s a scam/fake/ripoff when they really mean ‘other people have won and I haven’t and I’m going to stamp my foot and have a tantrum.’ Go and stand in the corner, face the wall and think how silly you are making yourself look.

Apart from this site is fake, I can't understand a word this person is typing, but somehow I've read his/her last comment as: "you win from all company you did advert for it". I don't ever remember doing an advert lol, but maybe the aliens came down and abducted me and made me do advert for it!!! 🤔🤔

Oh, has the weekend started early 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

I have won on the Stackpot once and also the £5 flash draw. Been a member for a few years. I check it if and when I remember, which is most days. I see it as a bonus if I win, and a few moments out of my day if I don't.

@Badlife - there have been lots of winners here. Just check the Winner's Results page to see. Also in the comments - many people post when they win. So how can it be "fake"? Do you understand it's a lottery? That means you might win, but you might not. I've been here for years, never won - but I don't really expect to. I just hope I might be lucky one day. Don't EXPECT to win. Just enjoy checking and be grateful if you do eventually win something.

I won once after taking a break for a couple years and ofc I regretted taking the break because my win would have been much bigger. Still, a free 35 quid is nowt to scoff at!

I didnot say in weekand!! I checked 2 time per day no way .and about free lottery sure but for you not free ,you win from all company you did advert for it

@badlife, were you told that you will win by someone, or did you read that you may win?

I have won, as well as many others.

Maybe you should send in a request for all the money you have spent on this 'FREE' lottery!

Oh dear me - lol! It's not the weekend already, is it? :-D

How to say you don't understand how a lottery works, without saying you don't understand how a lottery works.

Well I've just marched to the shop and complained I didn't win on my hotpicks numbers this week....the police let me go eventually after explaining it's a lottery! . 🤣🤣

@ Barrie, Me thinks both ;-)

@ badlife : Lotteries are random. You feel because you haven't won since 2017 that it must be fake ? I have won once on the Stackpot since joining in 2016. It would be nice to win again but I don't expect to. It's free, not fake.

Flower, I am in the same position as you. My win was recent, but I am still checking, as I know I still have exactly the same chance of winning as before. The probability is small, but it has not decreased since my win, and as long as I check regularly, I still have a chance. While I wait, I read the comments, which are always fun!

Hang on in there, everyone!

I've not won & I don't give a flying fairy because it has cost me nothing & I enjoy reading & making comments.

By the way badlife are you illiterate or a troll?

I’ve won also, looking forward to my second win 😃

If financial guru Martin Lewis recommends it, you know it's everything it's cracked up to be!

I have won , so you can win. Also can we keep all the negative comments for the weekend as normal, all the " it's fake" no it's not, "l have been doing this for years and never won" lot's of people have and some have not won, some have won and some more than once, it's a lottery, don't think it would work if everyone won every other day, " the my postcode never comes up " it's totally random. Also if you don't like it, don't do it, l assume that when you made the negative comments, that you went on later to see the replies ? If you do leave, remember that your postcode could come up the in next week .

Totally trustworthy!

I know for a fact it is not fake because I have won twice.

We’re definitely not fake! Our company name is Pick Media Ltd, registered company number 06377138. You can look us up. We’ve been running since 2011, are funded by advertising and now have over 62% of the UK’s postcodes registered!

Feel free to check out our Trustpilot reviews (We have a 4.8 out of 5 star rating) https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/pickmypostcode.com

Also, Martin Lewis at Money Saving Expert features and independently reviews us: https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/deals/pick-my-postcode/

He wouldn’t do that if we were fake.

As with any prize draw giveaway or lottery, some people win and some people don't. That's just the nature of a random draw. It doesn't mean we are fake.

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.

9 years without realising you’re part of hundreds of thousands of people in a free random lottery is a long time to not read the rules? 😀

That's how lotteries work my friend. You usually don't win. That's also what makes this lottery different and special - you don't lose anything by trying.

It's not fake, we all trust it (except you) and I suggest you may need help

He was a businessman & entepreneur bit like Richard Branson, first time he went solo non-stop in a balloon, second time solo non-stop in a plane. Wonder if he had trouble in those days getting permission to fly through any countries airspace, or if anyone tried to shoot him down.

That was a long flight Steve Fossett took around the world, 1944-2007. No wonder he holds the record. (Joke, before anyone thinks…)

We said "Cheers Mate" in London (if anything as we exited by the middle doors while they entered & paid at front doors), but in Scotland everyone says "Thanks Pal" as we get off as the buses only have front doors.

As they say in Bristol " cheers drive " as you get off the bus.

Why only school bus drivers? I thank every bus driver as I get off.

School 🏫🚸🚍Bus Driver Appreciation Day is a US thing I guess. Many of our passengers on the minibuses 🚐🚐 thank us as they leave; we do feel appreciated.

We should do our bit for the planet every day, not just today. Though raising awareness of what we can do is always a good thing.

Jelly beans would not be my sweets of choice. They're OK, but I prefer something more sour or fizzy.

I’m very honest if it’s a matter of a shop assistant giving me too much change, or undercharging for something, but I can lie like a horse-trader when the occasion demands - as long as I am prepared for it. Catch me on the hop and I’m useless.

I wouldn't say I lie, but I have omitted facts occasionally. I don't think that's the same (?) unless in a court of law lol; but I do tell porkies quite often to phone scammers if I'm in the mood to keep them online for a while, too.

I've just remembered because of samandi's comment that I frequently lie to scam callers. It's slightly more friendly than swearing at them.

Mostly - but I have been known to bend the truth when necessary.

This reminds me of Enver's mention of the Scottish Grand National a few days ago. I vaguely remember there being a horse racing track at Joppa but I think the National takes place at the Mussleburgh track. Mussleburgh was called the Honest Toon and used to choose one boy and one girl every year who were thought not to have lied during the previous 12 months.

It depends on who I am speaking to - if it's a nuisance or scam caller, I can be quite inventive in what I say.

Yes, though occasionally white lies are necessary to be diplomatic or not hurt somebody.

If I told you everything I say is a lie ... would you believe me?

I don't do white lies, ... just "very economical with the truth".

I'm with Shyboy. I do think in exceptional circumstances you can tell a 'white' lie to help someone out. (My mum told me about 'white' lies!)

I'm usually honest but I try to be diplomatic so...not always honest. I also have memory problems, but that's my brain lying not me 😇

I've been told am too honest, which does get me into trouble at times, can't lie to save my life !

Yes but I could lie accidentally. If you don't believe me look at witness statements & see how the same thing is different to all. A friend of mine is colour blind & can't differentiate between red & green. Clocks gain or lose time etc.

I do have a very good memory...or do I?

Honesty is the best policy. To be a good liar you need a very good memory.

Honest as the day is long and so is my pet hippopotamus.

Yes, but I might be lying

Mostly

Ditto Me and Mrs Pea!

I like to think I am also! I wonder if anyone will answer "No" though!

I would like to think so!!!

Well, we have tried lockinng them up, appeasing and pandering to them, retraining them and goodness knows what else - I think the shock of humiliating them might be a way of making the 'big bad boys of the patch' lose face, be taken right down and level the playing field. It would also give the public a chance to see who they are, which they will only know otherwise if it is in the papers with a photo, and hopefully teach the offender that other people have a right to a normal life - if they want it, they have to conform. I know if I was a shoplifter, I would only have to be put in the stocks once to learn my lesson. But then, human rights and the bleeding heart brigade would say it was cruel and 'contravening their human rights' - I wish that phrase had never been thought of!

Sadly, Beth8it, there is absolutely no evidence of any correlation between the severity of sentencing and the crime rate. The only sensible conclusion to be drawn from the data is that some people offend, some don't, and there is absolutely nothing we can do about that.

Think on it. If stocks, hanging, deportation to Australia, whatever, worked,why was there still crime in those days? And crime there was, and in plenty.

The underlying problem is that policies on 'law and order' and 'crime and punishment' are made by people who, fundamentally, are law-abiding and who imagine that the fear of punishment would deter other people from turning to crime. Nobody ever asks CRIMINALS what would deter them, they ask Hilda and Maureen from the Women's Institute and base their policies on that.

It's short-term gain versus long-term effect. The same logic as by which people smoke cigarettes despite knowing it may well shorten their lives and leave them with a lingering, unpleasant death. The same logic by which people with 6 points on their licence break the speed limit again. And a thousand other examples. (Supporting Spurs, for example, when you could support a successful club lol!!!)

So putting offenders in the stocks for a day would solve nothing, other than increasing their hostility to those people around them and with society in general. Yes, thousands more disaffected (young) people out there who feel rejected by, and who reject, society. Not, in my opinion, the best solution to a complex problem.

Demand will remain - addicts don’t stop overnight - but it would definitely dent supply. However, they would all be stuck in prison, where drug problems are rife, and there aren’t enough prisons anyway… my solution to most crimes is to bring back the stocks, and a big sign saying what the person did and their name. A day of standing there messing their pants and being jeered at would put most off being sentenced again.

My issue with cannabis is this. If it was legalised tomorrow, how many extra people would start taking it ? IMHO - none. Regarding Class A drugs, charge the users with funding terrorism and/or organised crime (which is what they are doing). Give them 15 years for possession and see the demand dry up

No weed of the illicit kind is taking a step over my threshold. It’s banned for a reason - anything that alters your mind, whether it has good properties as well or not, is too dangerous to play around with. There’s no way back with brain damage. Go ahead if you fancy it, Redz, but having seen the results of brain damage and early-onset dementia, I am not even taking painkillers unless I have to.

FORGIVE CAPS PMP.

BLACK, GREEN & DANDELION AS EVERYDAY TEAS, SWITCHING TO DIFFERENT MIXED TEAS DEPENDING ON WHAT MY BODY NEEDS FOR CERTAIN ORGANS, CLEANSING & IMMUNITY BOOSTS.

‘WEED’ (USED RESPONSIBLY, IN A SAFE, CONTROLLED SETTING - WHERE LEGAL) HAS MANY WELL DOCUMENTED MEDICAL BENEFITS, YET MANY REMAIN UNDER-RECOGNISED, UNDER-UTILISED OR NOT WIDELY DISCUSSED (YET)

Barrie 🤣😂

Barrie 😊

!Keep off the grass day" & "National surprise drug test day" on the same day, is this coincidental or deliberate?

Me too Marie. Several lol

I will have a cup of tea in honour of this special day!

@Me - "a count couple"🧛‍♀️🧛‍♂️ ... was blood involved?

Once for me back in the early 1990s. It was a drug case against a count couple. V sad to see photos with toddler children’s toys around the evidence.

I’ve been called for Jury Service four times. The first was over fifty years ago not long after I had left school, when I was called to the Old Bailey and had to decide on a case which involved burglary from a stately home. Just a few years later I went to the Old Bailey again and had to consider a serious fight in a pub. Then about ten years after that I was called to Snaresbrook and sat on a drug case jury. More recently I had to go back to Snaresbrook and had to decide whether a very large lady could have climbed through a tiny window about eight feet off the ground, just to steal a laptop! There was a lot of sitting around, but at least I got a case each time to consider.

I have been twice. The first in the 1990s for a two weeks on a Paedophile case. As I was the only man in a suit the jury members chose me to be Foreman.

The second call up I had been given a waiver by the Judge the first time so didn't have to do it.

Thankfully, I never have. I'm sure I'd hate it and it is really inconvenient here as you would have to travel to Exeter every day. I do know people who have done it though (my brother and a friend) and they were both called up twice, so it seems like if you do get the call once, you are quite likely to again. My brother's first case was a nasty assault, so I don't think he was too happy to do that.

Never thank goodness. However, my very good friend was, years ago, she said it was interesting. They were warned never to speak about the case afterwards though & so she's never told me anything about it. I got the impression it was a sensitive subject & that's all I know. Don't even know the verdict.

I was called up once about 14 years ago, but had to be let off as I was looking after my dad who was going through cancer and I didn't want to leave him. I would have loved to have done it, but the timing was off.

was called up twice, first time i got out of it due to starting a new job and it would push complications in my work, 2nd time it got cancelled.

Twice. 1st time (like Laura) I did jury service at Snaresbrook Crown Court about 1995, it's a lovely gothic? architectural building with 3 sets of rabbit warren corridors, one for public to about 30 courts, another one from main jury room (which holds about 500 jurists & has its own cafe, 2 TV rooms & a smoking area) to each court, & a third from courts for police & prisoners to cells, (& tunnels to 2 local police stns?) Ushers for each court come in & call names of those they want for a jury, but you can't go home till late in afternoon in case more are needed..

I had 2 cases, a white teenage girl was talking at the open house door with a local shopkeepers young kids, & "got pushed" into their home as a black gang she knew & hung with barged in & stole a bag containing a large sum of money from the wardrobe of the main bedroom, all while the wife was sleeping. Was she involved in the robbery? The Judge was spitting image of King Charles & we were told he sometimes did decoy body double. I was suddenly made foreman being closest ito the judge, & she got off with a warning as not enough evidence.

2nd case - Asians in a backstreet garage did a cut & shut (putting main parts of 2 cars together as one) without charging or telling its asian owner (apparently a friend?) who pled ignorance of the extent of the work & not guilty, however authorities found it unsafe later on - at a traffic stop or MOT. What garage doesn't charge for that sort of chassis & panel /respray work? We quickly found the idiots guilty & the car was crushed.

2nd Jury service was in Livingston Courts in Scotland about 2018 where they also have a "not proven" verdict. They took me off a year long intensive college course about 2/3 of the way through (with a generous bursary) neither of which would be repeated, & I missed so much i could not catch up & had to give up rest of the course, sadly other students gave up too once "the auld fella" left. ... It was mostly attending & waiting, but at the last minute we were told the defendant changed his plea to guilty so we were not needed. No other cases required jury over the next few days, so a complete waste of time.

I did jury service for 2 weeks 2 different cases So boring sitting round watching day time TV waiting to be called They will tell you’ve ready in 15 mins and your still waiting an hour later … but if you are late you get fined

I saw that with someone had been on jury service for 6 weeks on the same case

Yes two years ago. First day lot of waiting around, then sent home till Friday. Friday hung around all morning, got called at lunchtime, given instructions by the recorder who is a part time judge.,I was chosen as foreman. Started prosecution evidence after lunch, it was a drug dealing case and the individual pleaded not guilty. Finished for the day around 3.30pm and instructed to come back for 10am the next day, to hear the defence arguments and evidence. We eventually got into court again at lunchtime to find that the defendent had changed his plea to guilty. Judge summed up, defence asked for psychiatric assessment which was granted, and we left an hour later to go home and be told we were not needed for the rest of the week.

Never been called. I have a friend who has done jury service and coroners court 😕

No I haven't been called thankfully, I really dislike the thought of having to sit in judgement on someone.

No, I’d like to have done it but I thought I’m over the age limit now at 70, but if it is 75 there’s still a chance then.

I was called about 10 years ago, for 1 case that lasted a week. 3 guys were alleged to have burgled lots of properties during the night, when people were sleeping. I was really impressed with the police evidence. It centred on phone records, proving that these guys were all in the same area, at the same time with 20 miles between the first and last burglary. It was riveting hearing from the expert witness; about how their phone signals pinged off masts. They built a timeline of the pings and added all the messages the group had sent to each other before, during and after their spree. Plus, there was a grainy CCTV video which might not have been helpful except for one of the burglar's had huge white motifs on his black jacket which was produced in court. Plus all the defendants 'no comment' to every question asked in court, which gradually changed to all of them dropping each other in it. It was fascinating hearing the prosecutors questioning them when they started to crack. They were jailed but I can't remember how long for. I really enjoyed the whole week and wanted to do it again but haven't been chosen yet. The worst thing about it was the effect on the victims because it shattered their peace and made them frightened in their own homes...but it was a great feeling being part of getting justice for them.

I did jury service at Snaresbrook (beautiful building!) in 2010. It was shortly after my grandma had died and I probably wasn’t in the best headspace to be doing something as important as that.

I have been called 3 times. The first time was at the Old Bailey when I was just 18, quite daunting. It was an incest case. The other 2 occasions I managed to sit on one case each time, both in East Sussex but in different courts, with a lot of sitting around waiting when not on a case.

I have been called twice but served on multiple cases on both occasions. A complicated fraud case which was on its second jury then we were dismissed and a third jury was sworn in; an armed robbery; a case against several business men who we were instructed one by one to find not guilty and some one day cases around theft. In the armed robbery case the jury were chosen according to where they lived because if we had lived in the town where it took place we might have known and used the venue.

Eligibility is from age 18 to 75, so a few years yet, but I think I could argue that cognitive decline means that I could no longer follow all the details well enough to give a clear verdict.

Three years I got the call, I wasn't selected but told that I may get called again in the next four days. Ironically an old friend of mine who was a solicitor was being planted during the first day.

The second time was last year but excused when I told them about the stroke.

@CarolineC - You are eligible until 76 years old.

I was called for jury service in the 1980s. I was called for two weeks and sat on two cases in that time. After jury selection for the first case we were all sitting in the jury box still having absolutely no idea what the case was going to be: murder; organised crime; terror offences? There was a lot of tension in the air. When the charges were read out we were to consider the case of a man who was being charged with deliberately parking his car on a traffic warden's foot. The whole jury box was shaking with the suppressed laughter - mainly the release of tension - before the judge gave us all a stern talking to. The second case a day or two later was an assault.

I have to say I was very impressed with the experience in the jury room when the case was being considered. The barristers had wasted an awful lot of time trying to base their arguments on character assassination or irrelevancies and the jury cut straight through all that and really got to the heart of the situation almost immediately. It was a very reassuring insight into the justice system and how hard everyday people work to unravel unfortunate events that have consequences.

Edit: I hadn't seen @Quincy1uk's comment before I wrote that so I wasn't responding. My experience would be that the lawyers involved could have saved a lot of time by getting to the points that matter a lot quicker and sticking to them. Jurors are not stupid.

Yes a couple of weeks ago, did a couple of cases too over the two weeks. Had to waste my annual leave from work so I could get paid. Crown court was an absolute shower of s*^% from start to finish, legal system in this country is an absolute embarrassment (I’m ex-police and was appalled by what I saw/heard over the two weeks)

I was called for Jury Service and the case I sat through, lasted nearly 12 weeks. It was so long, the Judge issued all the jurors an exemption letter to excuse us from being selected again for at least 10 years.

No, never, though I always fancied doing jury service as I'm really interested in legal processes. I worked as a Solicitor's Clerk for a number of years and, during that time, I wasn't eligible to serve on a jury since I worked in legal practice. I did, however, get the chance to "sit by Counsel" as they called it - ie. I was the one who had to pass notes back and forth between the defendant and his barrister.

Once I stopped working in law, I never got called up anyway. I think I'm still eligible until I'm 70 but, if I got called up now, I'd have to be excused on health grounds.

My husband got called for jury duty once though. It was a drugs case and quite an eye-opener for him!

Yes, about 30 years ago. I was foreman and stood to deliver the verdict.

Yes, only a couple of years ago.

Day one was spent waiting around while special arrangements and assistance were put in place for the defendant.

Afternoon of day 2, everyone was filed down the the court room where the magistrate/judge told us all the rules of the court. Again.

12 of the 18 were then selected for that jury. I wasn't one of them.

The six of us not selected were then paid our expenses and told we could go. That was it.

I know a number of people who were on two cases.

I was called up to Coroner's Court many years ago, but needed to be excused because it was going to be a very long case. Turned out to be Potters Bar rail crash inquest.

Twice for me, too. Once at Southwark Crown Court in 1981, I think. Second time at York about twelve years ago. Cases in London involved importuning and theft. Those in York were rape and dangerous driving. I found the whole process fascinating.

I’ve been called twice. First time 1982, 3 days before I went to work in Saudi, and then about 15 years ago when I was due to be working in the USA, so I got excused again. OH has never been called

I had jury service in the 90s. Lasted about 3 days I think.

@Poppy..that is extremely rare to be called up twice in such a short time.

Yes, over 10 years ago. I had 2 cases, over the 2 weeks. One was an attack on a young man, where one of the accused was found guilty and the other one innocent. The second case was accusing a man of poking sticks through a letterbox into a glass porch to try to retrieve an envelope of cash, which he didn't get. There was no evidence, so the man was found not guilty.

I have been called up twice. The first time I wasn't needed. The second time was a case that lasted three days. It was a case I cannot disclose because of the ages, let's just say it was very distressing and the judge said we didn't have to do the other case. He also said if we needed counselling it was available. I didn't take the counselling, but I do wonder about the children.

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@Bob - Wrong thread.!

My Mum’s experience of jury service proved the weakness of the system. Her case was of an old lady who was caught with a frozen chicken under her hat. No idea why she didn’t plead guilty, but the jury felt sorry for her and found her not guilty. Mum was pretty upset with them. She felt the judge would have given her a conditional discharge anyway, but that was his job, not the jury

When I was a kid my nan had a general store - ice cream, cigarettes, knitting wool, jigsaws, bucket and spade etc, and I saw a jigsaw with a picture of me on the front. I took it in to Mum to show her and she just said, ‘Mm, it is a bit like you.’ I thought it was me! Just shows we can’t see ourselves properly, as Marie says.

In the J J Abrams movie reboots of the original Star Trek, all the crew were given shore leave and met their families. Sulu (George Takei's character) met, hugged and kissed his male partner. Takei didn't approve of this, because although the actor is gay, there was nothing in the original series to suggest that his character was as well.

I remember as a youngster I would go to work with my Dad on Deliveries, if ever he needed directions he would stop a random bloke and say, alright Jim or John do you know ...

I was always amazed how he knew these people. Years later did I find out it was just a generic term he used ?

My drunken😲🍾 friend has a doppelganger across the road. Once early in morning he phoned the police & swore the man was attacking him. That was cos the guy put up some "medical device" on his house - pointed in his direction, & is using it to steal his mind. ... call those nice young men in clean white coats, It was a satellite📡 dish. 🤣

(🚪 is it safe to come out now?)

I was approached in Aldi by a man who said "Hello John". Not my name. I told him I wasn't John but even when he went away he still didn't believe me.

Disclaimer - There are other stores but not many near me. The nearest being a mile away that I have never shopped in. There is a bus that goes from me to it but it seems silly to get off the bus when I can stay on and go into town where there are more places to shop.

I've also been told there's someone who looks like me. In fact they insisted that they'd seen me walking my dog on the beach. When I told them I didn't have a dog and hadn't been to the beach, they asked if I was sure as it was definitely me they saw!

I definitely have a doppelganger his mother thought I was her son & she showed me a photo of him. He was wearing a T-shirt that I owned, luckily I didn't recognise the woman he was with or else I could believe that it was me in the photo.

I once saw a photo of me that was actually my dad as a young man, I used to shave dad's face in the mirror.

@Kat ... Ditto 😆😆

I keep seeing someone who looks uncannily like my Mother. Mirror, mirror on the wall!🤣

Cakey, it's funny that you've never seen them yourself. Or maybe it would be a case that other people think you look like this person, but you can't see it. They say everybody has a doppelganger out there somewhere.

I am not like any famous person but believe there is someone in my town who looks like me. On a number of occasions people have come up to me with a look of recognition on their faces only at the last moment to say "Sorry, I thought you were someone I knew"

@Adelaide I though the postcode looked familiar as I used to work near there. It's on the edge of Anstey but not far from Rothley. LE7 7 includes a few villages out that way.