winners of Costa Rica trip here

opp, wrong thread

Well Mooney, his first-ish post;

"Ah – hello – Tony here - sorry if I am late…just putting my little girl to bed – you know how it is – those Roald Dahl chapters go on forever..."

Yes, like you would opt to put your daughter to bed on the night that her bedtime happened to coincide with a PR stunt you had arranged.

bump again!

Bump!

closing date is 10th October

has anyone won this yet?

<realises I've packed all my clothes and the trip's not until november>

<unpacks again>

<waits for minions to pack case>

<packs trunks>

<hires bearers>

That's decided then. Hope you're paying attention MNHQ.



<packs suitcase>

In that case, I need to add two more words to my nickname... hmmm.... LittleLapinLovesCoffee?

Oh what fun we three shall have!

I shall enjoy your company then NDTH

It'll be me.

I'd love to have said yes to the trip, but logistically it would have been a nightmare Plus as it involves interviews I doubt I'd qualify as a face of MN/Kenco Never mind, I'll get some vicarious pleasure out of whoever does win.

Is it not a 1 in 66.6666 chance if there is 3 places or is my maths just rubbish???!!
monkeytrousers - think positive, it has to happen to someone and that someone could be you!

"you don't have to be keen to leave kith and kin behind"

DAMN that's what my 50 words was all about!

God I am such a charmer this week sorry!

I'm not. Never ever happens. I'd love a chance to escape from my miserable and earstwhile (d)p - tho will miss ds like mad - it would so me the world of good - that and never having had a real holidat in 30 years

...do they do hard luck stories

Ooh so I have a one in 200 chance of winning then? I'm getting excited now!

I know, it's my fault for moving <sigh>

Sorry MrsJohnCusack - we do try but so many of the comp folks stipulate UK only entrants - apparently in some instances it's to do with competition law being different in different countries.. or so they tell me..

Anyways, we've now got over 500 responses to the survey and around 200 gunning for the three trips to Costa Rica.

Just a reminder that you don't have to be keen to leave kith and kin behind and head for the rainforest in order to take part in the survey. All you need to be is a coffee drinker and you could be up for winning a luxury hamper and six months supply of coffee.

The survey only takes a couple of minutes to complete so please put down your mug of decaff and fill it in now

NZ
survey UK only as per usual grrrrrr

or San Jose?

Where are you Mars?

god this is fab
when is this Mumsnet Costa Rican reality show happening then? When are the winners going to be announced? I CANNOT miss who it is

I'd enter but somehow don't think they'll pay my fares from here

Even if I 'win' I am likely to be rejected at the interview stage. Perhaps I should have gone for the hamper after all?

aww so want to enter but I cant as dd1 has an op booked for nov 12th and is my wedding anniversary on the 10th

6 months supply of coffee Is that 6 months of the average drinker or 6 months supply as normal for the winner?

I drink A LOT of coffee. A normal person's 6 months supply would only last me 3 months I reckon.

all this thinking off coffee off to pop the kettle on again

Noddy, Mabs, Custy

i've entered too Noddy.did anyone see when draw is made?

god if i win do i have to go with 2 of you lot!?!"?!?

rice?
rica fgs

i think if i went , when they were filming id say " yes its beutiful in cunting Costa rice" ]

thus rendering tape invalid

<reminds judges htat is A Joke adn shodul not adveresly affect chances>

I'm in.. my MN name says it all.. I am a chilled out nice person to be round ladies

I actually wouldn't mind being outed for this trip. I mean to get to see the impact etc of coffee growers communities.. blah blah blah..

I'll stop talking now..

I think it's a moot point for me, as I just read that you actually have to be a coffee drinker to enter...how much of a coffee drinker do you think you really have to be...could I fake it?

Bumper that never crossed my mind.

eek

But I shan't win anyway

Is anyone worried about no longer being anonymous if they win the trip?

Just wondering, as I am debating whether or not to enter. I would love to go, but I can just think of lots of complicating factors.

<<ponders if skate can indeed take on cod>>

<<has back-up plan tho>>

((check out new name))

might turn into skate, could a big one take on a cod?

<<packs stake>>

<<unpacks stake, as it will not work if with cod.............will turn into sktae and crumble>>

Custy, Cod, Psycho

<<slays all fellow competitors>>

I won, I won, I won

have entered - would have LOVED to have won the trip to Costa Rica - what an adventure but sadly I am due a baby 3 days after the start of the trip so don't think that would be advisable! Whoever wins must let us know how it goes.......

me and you Custy - imagine it...

yes cod i agree it would be very funny indeed. we can talk about electric carpet sweepers.

Pants, just opened up survey and THEN realised my due date is 12 Nov. Arse. If I win can I give another MNer my ticket?

Thank goodness for that, morrisons never seem to have much in stock, someone must be supping it all

We can always find you rum

that would be fanfeckingtastic LL but i just couldn't fit it in, we are of on hols in oct and then hopefully away at christmas, i hope you are lucky. the coffee hamper would be handy for my Mac coffeee morning (will there be rum?)

Oh no OJ, I want you to come on hols with ME! (LL)

i think all we have established is that the hamper is mine

Have we established yet whether you have to enter the comp AND post 'done' or 'entered' or summat on the relevant thread in order to enter the relevant comp ?

Done, btw.

you can have the holiday but the hamper belongs to me

Will the trio of mumsnetters be able to log onto mumsnet in their eco lodge, so everyone else can see how well they are bonding together (or not).

I fear I may have blown my chances by being selected for a different MN jolly

yes but being fat and ugly and very unphotogenic they won't want to use any film of me anyway.

I was quite up for this until I saw that it involves filming - you must be joking mister

I have already gone spanish for it

t's no good. i've already decided. i'm going.

Take me - it's a lot easier - I don't need childcare!

ahem, I AM a fox

a fax???

ahem, fox LOL

yeah, you just think you're a fax

delusional?? I'm not the one who thinks she's a rabbit...

You are all delusional I'm going <books nanny service>

OK Ann, I've changed it in my diary.

ah well, I expect a lot of you can't go now <<crosses fingers>>>

We've just been told the dates of the trip are slightly different - just by one day.
They now are:
Saturday 8 November - Friday 14 November

custy
its me and you.
think wodul be very very funy!

would love to go with MT

Im more exciting by the coffee price! "Pick me, pick me!" - If I win Costa Rica I'll swap for the coffee lol!

WaaaaaaaaaaHHHHHH!

I would LOVE to go on that trip, and I would be the Perfect Candidate, slurping the coffee, tramping through the plantations, wearing comedy safari shorts, taking the aid and education bit Very Seriously, Running my fingers sensuously thorugh the sacks of beans like the woman in the old ad, shagging the....oops, no, no, not on camera, anyway.

But I have a feeling that were I to start a thread 'AIBU to think that I can swan off to Costa Rica while DS is in the middle of gruelling bone surgery?' I would end up as high roasted as an espresso bean.

So - you are all spared the competition - and it's stay put at CostaCoffee for me! Grrrrrr!

Done. Costa Rica here I come.

Is 'I've' considered to be two words or one?

I've done it, but it would be a nightmare to organise - maybe it would make them appreciate us a little more!

I bow to the power of the mighty fish.
As I thought the impossible will never happen.
Never mind I can dream.

nice ry flossie
that WONT work when there is fish power to contend wiht

I have entered ,though God knows I never win anything, so if anyone sees a pig flying past their window . You will know the impossible has happened.
The sad thing is I already use Kenco coffee all the time,so they won't even have to persuade me to change to their product.

No Kewc, you need to add a real hun into that mix

that friggin cat
whjat is he up to now is aso starting old tricks fo following to school

<looks around for cat wiht broom>
there is NO WAY my cat is goign to costa rica

Fabio its going to be secretly filmed for a reality TV programme

My vote is Cod, Xenia and Anna888 or but perfehaps someone more slovenly/fat to give a good mix... oh that would be me then

I love you Fabio, I really do

<passes a nice piece of salmon>

lol

My partners of choice are
Niceglasses
OBM

or for channel 4 cultural bionding tinme

Cote and Dittanty who seem to be taking exception to eveything i say lately so I might as well chuck them both in!! haha

(isn;t there a kafka play about that- tho not in CR)

Lemme get this straight.

Three strangers, miles away from home and enough caffeine to kill a small horse?
It's hardly fking Pimms o'clock, is it?

I predict one or all of these events:
a) they will kill each other over a sausage roll/P&T parking/bf vs ff/SAHM vs WOHM/pedantry incident
b) they will come home and each kill someone who has Pissed Off one of the other two
c) someone will do a Gareth Hunt shakey wanky hand thing and a deathly silence at th horror of Nestle confusion will be followed by someone being jettisoned from the plane
d) it will be monsoon season in Costa Rica in November and you will need hot coffee to warm you up after your drownings
e) it will be won by three professional compo take parters
f) Costa Rica - been there, done that. For a travelling kitten like me, it is very 2007.
g) I have entered and I really want coffee more than the holiday
h) do NOT tell cod
i) if it's dreadful when you get there, fake the runs then spend the day lounging around the pool whilst the film crew have to recruit 3 burly chambermaids to extoll the virtue of Kenco, which they can only pronounce Kengcow and none of them likes coffee, they prefer tequila.

done it but i never win anythin so it wont be me that goes
xx ei xx

I'll do it but I never win anything

Its got to be Cod, Xenia and UnquietDad

I've entered, no kids, hot weather and copious amounts of coffee..oh yes

raid?? Read

I've just entered! Never win anything though so I'm not holding out much hope. Wish I had entered for the coffee though! Never raid the bit about publicity lol

How about Tori32, Xenia and Anna888?

"if we went on a sailing expedition I would throw dh overboard"

"it might rain in on the upstairs carpet"

i assdume once a mum always a mum for the pruposes of this competition

well obviously Xenia and Anna888 but who would be third leg?

"I'd want to kill my husband and children within 4 days of a family gap year"

''DH would run out of crockery and cutlery''

"the hamster cage would STINK by the time I got back"

"dh cannot be relied upon to dress my children in matching outfits while I am away"

"I'll miss Eastenders"

"the kitchen floor is not going to clean itself"

Costa Rica is wonderful... but I will be 39 weeks pregnant then, so don't think I'll enter

lol

also

"I would like to travel the world with my family but would hate DD to miss teh school play"

yes MamaG

also "I don't want to go anywhere or do anything I am not excited about travel or experiences tho I am very interested in choosing a staircarpet"

Does anybody else feel like sad wanker that in the section about "what have you done in the last 2 years" I only managed to tick "more recycling"

<<mutters about learning another language>>

thank you MNHQ, done now <<crosses fingers. >>

OK i've done the survey but only put myself into the draw for hamper and coffee.
I'd love a holiday but DP deserves one too and we haven't had a family holiday this year. All those questions about gap years put me off a bit, not sure why!
I thought it was a bit odd in the 'what green things do you do' that an option was 'avoid long haul flights'....when the prize is a long haul flight...

Can't wait to see which 3 mumsnetters are going to be sat together in cattle class on a plane for hours on end then thrown together in a straw hut for a week!!

Who is going to be the first to suggest suitably unsuited trios????

'They do want winners to be sort of ambassadors for what they are doing '

Can I be an ambassador for dumping kids on dp at short notice and swanning off to south America for a week then????

I have amended the settings so you should be able to go back in and edit responses should you want to, but still only one entry per household.

Cheers
Ann

I've gone for the coffee. Much as I;d love to go I think a trip to Costa Rica would be a bit unrealistic at the moment. I won a mumsnet cottage stay in Cornwall once and that was hard enough to organise - and we only live in Devon. (Very nice it was too - - Bosinver Farm)

'financial help with childcare'- splutter- I;d love to see them find something for ds1.

Hurrah done

Would they organise a MW for me if I go into labour?

<settles for some free coffee>

<hides in FFF's suitcase>

Thanks so much LittleLapin, I've managed to enter properly. <<bows down to superior computer knowledge>>

Oh pants, also didn't get the comments box, don't know if I can be faffed to go back, clear internet thingy and enter again!

<<psycho bows down to lapins greatness>>

got in. was more to see the terms again rather than re-do the survey. no point trying to re-do really as I won;t win anyway<<never win nuffin me>>.

I would like to edit my supposed 50 word response!!!

hey ho, can dream can;t I

ta lapin.

am off to see if it works now.......

I really think I ought to get picked cos then I can bore excite the other two mners with exciting and inaccurate weather predictions.

Dont drink coffee

Dont have valid passport

Couldnt leave the country for a week

Ah well.

Are you using Internet Explorer? Go to Tools, Internet Options, and look for Delete browsing history (you can choose which bits to delete, ie just cookies, or history etc). On Firefox it's Tools, Clear Private Data.

Tis good for your computer to clear out temporary files etc periodically.

Ooh I would love to go, I will be 4 months pregnant though, might limit the amount of coffee I could get through (not to mention making the bikini shots a bit, well, bumpy)...

so, how do you clear the cache then???

<<very 'puter non-minded except for accessing MN>>

I cleared my internet cache and now it will let me enter again if I want, I think it's a cookie causing the problem.

I cleared my internet cache and now it will let me enter again if I want

Was about to enter but eww at having to go away with 2 mnetters! There are some I'd love to go away with obviously but...

Thanks LL.

Carrie it won't let us enter again