Bord Gais are running a competition through twitter and IGO people:
If you can spot all the switches in our new TV ad then you could win a €200 shopping voucher.
All you have to do is submit your guess on here or on twitter (making sure to @TheBigSwitchIRL so we pick it up). All correct answers will be entered in to a draw for the first prize of €200!!
First correct answer drawn will win a €200 shopping voucher but we also have a runners up prize of a €50 shopping voucher for the the next 4 correct answers to drawn!!
Closing date is this Friday the 22nd of May at 12:00 noon.
How many are there? Well, let's count:
1:
2:
3:
4, 5 and 6:
7 and 8:
9, 10, 11, 12 and 12 and a half or 13...
Assuming the half switch counts as one, here's 14, 15 and 16
and then not counting duplicates, here's another 7 bringing it up to 23 (or 22 and a half)...
Get your answer in quick!! Just tweet Eoin at @TheBigSwitchIRL - best of luck!
I got sent this by Kerry from Red Rage Films - the people behind the Meteor ads I posted yesterday. Excellent stuff altogether for the lads over at No Nonsense Car Insurance.
Stay with it to the end, trust me.
You can see the latest No Nonsense TV ads over on their blog. "Oh the evil gypsy curse, gammy leg and the twisty eyes and she stares at you through the..."
Normal, non commercial posting may resume shortly. Busy in work, don't ya know!
So not fair. Here's me, up to my tonsils (post to follow) and there's Barry's teasing me with a major case of travel envy, of wanderlust and of the knowledge that I never took the opportunity to do that, to get away from Ireland before I was 30 for a year off, just travelling around, like 'Jane' in the ad, going from place to place. A combination of never having the money, always working and never just going and doing it - completely my own fault.
Niamh took the opportunity last year - she's telling me at the moment that "This time last year I was on a glacier" and "Oh last year I was swimming with dolphins off the course of Fiji with a cocktail in one hand and a whole 2 months before I came home" - or words to that effect. Not boasting, just reminiscing but I can't help feeling that envy.
Younger sisters and brothers have gone off to Australia, ex colleagues are just back from world trips and I'm fed up of logging on to Facebook to read where other people are and I'm not.
Of course they saved up or went into debt or worked hard for all of that. And me, well I've travelled a lot, lived in London for a year, Spain for a few months and am generally very lucky. Still though, this is my rant and I'll rant if I want to.
I'm currently writing another post about work and realised that I've been working almost non-stop since I was 21, punctuated only by holidays and periods of unemployment, where I packed as much if not more in than a working day. This week sees the culmination of three big projects I'm working on, I'm feeling drained but stressed, running only on adrenalin and enthusiasm, unable to sleep but very, very happy.
Being busy suits me.
So go away Barry's with your travel and your flavours and golden moments and your temptation. (Mrs Doyle: "Now what do you say to a nice cup of tea". Fr Jack: "Feck off cup!") Come back to me in a couple of months or so. I may have time for you then.
There'll be quotes aplenty from that not-entirely-safe-for-work video! "I'm sorry, but Ireland is gay" - so begins the ad for GCN's 21st birthday in Tripod - tickets €10, going fast - on February 19. I found this over on Climaxxx, Chewy Chewerson's newly revived blog. Go on over and say hello.
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Given all that though, I still hope you enjoy them :)
