Hayes Garden World ran a competition on Facebook and their main webpage to win one of 12 Christmas Trees. Usual like/share/comment affair. Pretty long shot to win it but they were giving 12 away to winners as well as 12 away to charity, so worth entering regardless.
So my name got pulled out of the hat, announced on their webpage, then there was a mix up because I thought they were to contact me rather than the other way around. Eventually I messaged them on Facebook, discovered the latter was the case, sent them my details and 36 hours later (6 sleeps before Christmas Day) this 6ft artificial pre-lit Christmas Tree turns up via courier.
Set up and lit up it certainly looks the £289.99 these would normally set you back buying direct, but we added a few baubles and dangly decorations later because we like gaudy. Our old tree was also artificial, 4 years old, but starting to get a bit tatty, so this is the perfect replacement.
Lots of little prizes are also winging their way, books, gadgets, merchandise, 1kg of Haribo, Yardley gift sets and so on. December has been really good to me with respect to having my name pulled out of various hats. But this tree is a real, vivid and 6-foot tall reminder that although it's a lot of hard work sometimes, you gotta be in it to win it :)