Happy Friday, Prezzybox Army!
The boss comes back on Monday, so we’ve been enjoying our last week of craziness before order is restored. We’re hoping they’ll be back with loads of stories from their 3 week romp around Oz (and maybe some presents for the staff, pretty please?) Perhaps we’ll even put some of their holiday snaps up on here!
I’m sure you’ve all be waiting with baited breath to find out who won our big Valentine’s Day competition! Well, wait no more. The golden envelope is here and we are very happy to announce our loved-up winners!
In third place…..
Abereat Sabir!
“Would you believe it could all start from a game of hide and seek?
As I put on the blindfold, I walked around with my arms outstretched. Well, I don’t mean to boast, but I am very good at this game. All my other senses come alive as I become attuned to the movements around me. However, one of my friends decided to slip out of the room. As I followed, I seemed to lose my co-ordinates. Bang! I walked straight into the door of the cupboard under the stairs! Suddenly, I heard a floorboard creak. Frustrated, I began to berate my friend for leaving the room. As I made my way along the hallway to the foot of the stairs…I misjudged my location again. Bang! I’d walked into the staircase railing again! Now definitely frustrated I climbed the stairs to where I knew my friend was. I grabbed hold of her foot and said victoriously, ‘See I got you!’
As I pulled off my blindfold to my horror I realised, this was not my friend! There sitting on that step of the staircase, the person whose foot I was holding was….no other than my whole future, smiling down goofily at me, as the blood rushed to my face!”
We loved his story of ‘blind love’ (geddit?) So much that we awarded him third prize!
In Second Place….
Naomi Muggeridge!
“I was a student nurse living with three other nurses. One of the girls had a boyfriend in the RAF. One evening he came over with a friend to mend her car. As I was leaving to go out for the evening I walked past a tall, dark handsome stranger standing in my hall.
The following day I asked my friends boyfriend about the stranger and he said ‘oh, he’s going to phone you later, he had a dream about you last night and you were feeding him crumpets!’ ..’mmmm!’ said I, ‘crumpets!!’ and the rest is history..One dog, 2 cats, 2 rabbits and 2 children later…”
Crumpets are always a massive hit in the Prezzybox office and when crumpets and love mix, the results are spectacular!
A load of valentine’s goodies are winging their way to the lucky winners as we speak!
And finally, Last but most definitely not least, Our Grand Prize Winner!
In First Place…… (drum roll please)
Carroll Marsh!
“I met my gorgeous hubby in 1978 in weirdly funny, yet sad circumstances. I was visiting my lovely Gran, when she said she had a decorator upstairs. I made a cup of tea and she called him down. I didn’t really fancy him that much as we all sat down on the settee with our cuppas.
Gran loved her budgie, Billy, who was flying round the room.
Suddenly Billy landed on Gary, the decorator’s foot at just about the split second he was crossing his legs. Next thing I knew poor Billy was hurtling through the air heading towards the lovely roaring coal fire!!
It was like slow motion Aaaaargh! We still laugh about it!!!”
This story made us laugh and cringe in equal measure (I also have her word that they bought Gran a new budgie after the incident!)
So congratulations, Carroll, the Edible Arrangement and all those other goodies are on their way to you now!
A massive ‘congratulations’ to our winners and a great big thank you to everyone who entered!
Have a great weekend everyone…
Kat x
