Competition winner!

After some deliberation, I have decided to award the $60 buysterlighting.com voucher to......

Meva of Bills and Moon!

There were some cracker entries - I admit, honourable mention must go to Daniel R, who appealed to both my sense of righteousness and my intellectual vanity - but in the end I had to give it to Meva for being both of-the-moment and critical of pop cultural bandwagons that behave as if an untalented, slightly deranged upstart has not only reinvented the wheel but decoupaged it in sparkly glue.

Thank you all for entering and joining in the great tradition of accepting free promotional gifts from companies looking to expand their market.

Competition time!

Some time ago, I received a very nice email from a lady who works at www.buysterlighting.com. Through said nice lady, I was asked if I might be interested in reviewing one of their products. Given as I am to jumping aboard anything remotely resembling a Freedom train, I of course replied that yes, I would be very interested in reviewing anything she wanted to send my way.

Having a little peruse on the site, I found many lovely lighting things including this ode to retro living. Sadly, the budget allocated to my humble little blog did not extend to retro excellence. Not for the first time do I curse my inability to turn a hobby into a millionaire's playground, and while I'm at it I also curse my inability to resist eating large slabs of cake at inopportune moments i.e any time that I hope to continue fitting into my jeans.

Thanks to buysterlighting.com, I have a $60 gift voucher to give away to one very lucky reader of ye olde Bad Apples. I myself will be reviewing this functional-for-the-office product in the next week or so, which is most fortuitous as a) I like to read late at night but am scared of the dark and hate jumping out of bed to turn the light off and b) I tend to enjoy things that are free with approximately 50% more enthusiasm than things that are not.

So to win the voucher, all you need to do is email me on audreyandthebadapples AT gmail DOT com and tell me in 25 words or less why I shouldn't be embarrassed about being afraid of the dark or sometimes sleeping all night with the lamp on when I've ill-advisedly begun thinking of the girl from The Ring and more recently the trailer for Paranormal Activities, which I'm still going to see even though it is a Bad Idea and will mean that I have to start sleeping in the daytime and living at night, and possibly have to move to northern Alaska or one of those other weird regions where the sun never sets.

UPDATE: Competition closes at 4pm on Wednesday 18 November.