Good lord!!! I've won something!!

There's a running gag in the Furtheron family about me and my competition entering. I've never won a thing. I used to enter all the guitar giveaways etc. in all the magazines, Mrs F readily pointing out if I stopped buying the magazines and paying for all the postcards and stamps or text messages I could buy the equipment anyway!

Well amazingly I got an email saying I've won some strings in the Guitar Noize second birthday giveaway. Yippee!!

Oh yes a footnote. I have won a competition before, it was to have your house stone clad - which I didn't want and also at the time... I didn't have a house!

Comments

  1. Istvanski6 July 2009 at 16:44

    Congrats! That's brilliant. I one four bottles of assorted plonk at one sitting many years ago. It was a raffle and only 7 people entered so the odds were in my favour I guess...

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  2. Suburbia6 July 2009 at 16:48

    Yay! Glad you have won something you wanted :)

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  3. Liz Hinds6 July 2009 at 17:19

    Congrats! You've waited - what is it - 40? years to win something and you get ... guitar strings. Okay, well, I expect you're pleased.

    I'm reading Stuart, did I tell you?

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  4. Piley6 July 2009 at 20:00

    Hope you can win a guitar to go with the strings soon Further!! ;-)

    Well Done Fella!

    P

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  5. Aunt Jackie7 July 2009 at 13:25

    Congrats! lol You sound like me, I never seem to win anything, but always felt like it was about time I did.

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