Live the Life of a premier league footballer with Chang Beer

If there is one thing that I know, it’s that I love a nice cold beer.. Chang Beer that is. What makes it even better is their new on-pack promotion for two lucky winners to win the once in a lifetime chance to Live The Life of a premier league footballer for a whole weekend. Believe me, it’s some prize – check the specifics…

The winners will be shown a life of luxury, starting off with a flight to Liverpool and four night stay at one of city’s top hotels and chauffeur driven transport to a premier league match, where they’ll be wined and dined in a VIP box. Then they’ll take a tour of the famous Everton FC training ground, Finch Farm, and get up close and personal with the players over lunch. Top it all off with a round of golf, personal shopping trip and dinner with the Everton FC legends.

If this didn’t encourage me to buy a six pack, then the added bonus of kicking back with an ice cold Chang certainly did!

To be in with a chance of winning, just grab the code from a pack of Chang at your local supermarket and visit http://www.changbeer.com/live-the-life  to enter the code. Then sit back and cross your fingers, I know I am!

For more information and great giveaways, follow @ChangBeerUK

Today I Received A Free Bottle Of Wine

I got my free bottle of wine from Friends of Glass UK on Facebook today. This was a prize for a game they were doing at the time where you had to pour a drink from a bottle and pass it onto the next person. The person who finished the bottle off won a bottle of wine or a non-alcoholic drink.

Competition Win Comic Heroes #8 (ends 31st October)

 I am pleased to announce that I am running my first competition, for fans of my blog!

I have a great prize for any comic fans: Comic Heroes Issue 8, containing free collctable gifts.

To win this fabulous prize you must:

1. Follow this blog
2. Follow me on twitter @VeggieDadBlog 
3. Leave a comment to tell me you've done this, make sure you leave me a way to contact you. Email address or twitter username are fine.

Up to 3 more additional entries can be gained by:

1. Comment on any other of my posts then comment here to tell me which one
2. Like my Facebook page.
3. Tweet "Want to #win Comic Heroes issue 8: http://bit.ly/ndY0E2 #comp from @VeggieDadBlog"on Twitter

You must be in the UK to be eligible to win. All entries must be completed by 23:59 on Monday the 31st of October 2011

Enjoying Alpro Creamy Vanilla Desserts

I won a pack of Alpro Vanilla Desserts from @Alpro_UK. They are milk free soya desserts and tasted rather like custard in a tub - very nice.

Premier Of Will Film

We went to see the premier of the new film "Will". We stood around for about two and a half hours before the film started to see some of the stars.

 

The film features several LFC players and we were lead to believe that Steven Gerrard was going to be turning up. But he didn't :(

  David had been hoping to get an autograph from him and was rather disappointed. He did, however, get autographs from Perry Eggleton, Roy Evans and Kenny Dalglish.

 We were also disapointed that Bob Hoskins, Damian Lewis and Kristian Kiehling didn't come to it either.

The film itself was quite enjoyable. I wasn't enjoying it to start with but it soon picked up and was rather good and funny at times.

We finished the day off by watching Johnny English Reborn as we had some vouchers for the cinema, Oddly enough we were at exactly the same screen as we were for Will. I'd have to say that £26 for two adults and two children for a film is rather expensive, especially as they try and sell you overpriced snacks, popcorn, sweets and drinks.

Chester Zoo

Over the weekend we also went to Chester Zoo. We had a fabulous day.

There were loads of animals (obviously) and various other things for the kids to enjoy. We were lucky enough to visit while they had a dinosaur exhibition on at the time.

There is a lot of walking to be done and our feet hurt by the end of the day! There are suggested walks of varying lengths marked on the free map they give you. There are signposts all over the place to help you find the animals you are after.

It was very easy to find via road and we had no problems getting there. Overall a thoroughly enjoyable day out. Great value and fun.

We didn't actually manage to get around all the animals so I can say with certainty that you can easily fill in a whole day there!

Alton Towers

We went to Alton Towers over the weekend, partly as a birthday treat for my son David.

Although it was quite fun, I think it is drastically overpriced. A lot of the day you spend queuing up for rides. One of the rides had a queue of over a hour and a half! I feel that for the price you pay a lot of your day is wasted standing around.

We went on several rides throughout the day and enjoyed them all. I didn't get to go on the super fast scarey rides that I'd've liked to have done as I am the only one in the family that enjoys that sort of thing.
I was impressed when David said he'd go on the Runaway Mine Train as it is a fairly fast ride. He enjoyed it, as did I. It is quite fast but has no sudden drops which I don't think he'd've liked.

We all enjoyed the Sealife Centre and all the fish and assorted marine creatures. There was an excellent clear tunnel and the sharks and stingrays swam right over your head. It was much bigger than it looked like it was going to be, which was great. You could even put your hands in with the shrimps and let them eat dead skin off your hands.

The funniest bit of the day was seeing David's face in the photo from "The Flume". It was taken on the largest drop and he just looked so scared.

Overall we enjoyed the day but felt it was very expensive. And then on top of that they then charge you for parking!