Showing posts with label competition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label competition. Show all posts

Saturday 26 March 2011

Competition Winners

What was Dolly saying? Well, we have three lucky competition winners to tell us!

"Out On A Limb" wrote:

Dolly: "Eee, no wonder your dinner's taste funny. I never could read Aunt Jessie's writing, and what she's got down here in the recipe looks more 'aniseed' than 'arsenic' now I come to think of it..."

Cerys wrote:

Dolly: "This is a lovely knitting pattern - neon pink legwarmers! Just the thing for you Matt - trendy and practical for working on the farm!"

Ian wrote:

Dolly: "And just think - if I'd added paprika it would of been goulash!"

Matt: "Well as you didn't, do you mind telling me WHAT it is?"

Well done, folks, some nice giggles there! Just send me your addresses and your highly exclusive Beckindale Bugle mugs will be on the way to you!

Drink your tea with pride!

Thursday 27 January 2011

Competition: What's Dolly Saying? Win A Beckindale Bugle Mug!

Here's your chance to win your very own, limited edition Beckindale Bugle ("Gossip From '80s Amos") tea mug.

Just study the screen grab above: Dolly Skilbeck (Jean Rogers) is having dinner with husband Matt (Frederick Pyne) and Jackie Merrick (Ian Sharrock), but her attention appears to have been distracted. Write a witty caption for the pic, enter it via our "comments" facility, and the three best entries will win Bugle mugs (Walter and Mr Wilks have already got theirs!). So, don't delay, write today!

CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES: 28 February 2011.

Monday 1 February 2010

Competition Winner...

Congratulations to "Pronto" who has won our Beckindale Bugle competition.

Your prize, a signed 1980s pic of Ronald Magill as Amos Brearly, is already to send to you, and, as Amos and Mr Wilks went together like eggs and bacon, I'm also throwing in a signed pic of Arthur Pentelow, who played Amos' loyal friend. Of course, Henry Wilks was, in fact, a friend to many in Beckindale.

So, Pronto, send me your address details [to actual80s@btinternet.com], and the pics will be in the post.

We had over sixty entries for the competition.

Thanks to all those that took part - and to those who supplied some witty comments - much appreciated!

The answer was Ross Kemp, Grant Mitchell in EastEnders from 1990 onwards, Graham Lodsworth, son of Dolly Skilbeck, in Emmerdale Farm from late 1986 to early 1987.

Friday 1 January 2010

Competition: Future Stars Of EastEnders In '80s Emmerdale... Pam St Clement As Mrs Eckersley (1980) And...

Mrs Eckersley arrives at Emmerdale Farm in March 1980...

The last blog post has given me an idea for a competition. We know that Pam St Clement (now Pat Evans of EastEnders) appeared in five episodes of Emmerdale Farm in March 1980 as Mrs Eckersley, but what other future EastEnders star cut his/her soap teeth in 1980s Emmerdale Farm?

Send your answer and name/nickname via the comments section, and I'll put all the names into a hat (or bucket) on 31 January and the first one drawn out by my own fair hand will win a signed, colour photograph of Ronald Magill as Amos Brearly from the 1980s.

What could be simpler?

Go on, have a go!

Wednesday 29 October 2008

Beckindale Beyond The '80s Competition Winner...

Thanks to all those who entered our "Beckindale Beyond The '80s" competition. We had a great time reading all the entries.

The winner is (big fanfare) BERRYMAN! We particularly liked the mix of fun and serious storylining suggestions in this entry. So, Berryman, please send your details to: actual80s@btinternet.com and we'll post off your 1980s pics of Mr Wilks and Amos!

Thanks again to all those that took part!

Tuesday 21 October 2008

Competition: What A Nightmare! Beckindale With A Dallas Twist!

The Woolpack Inn, Beckindale, December 19, 1989: 7.15 am - Amos Brearly wakes up and goes downstairs to find Mr Wilks preparing a full English breakfast for them both...

"Mr Wilks!" he groans, "I've just 'ad this terrible dream. It seemed to go on for years. Them Tates what 'ave just moved into Home Farm turned out to be right nasty, and there was a plane crash in't village, and Emmerdale Farm fell down, and the post office blew up, and there was a seige at Home Farm and a house blew up in a gas explosion, and a baby died - one o' them cot deaths - and the people who thought they were't parents found out it was somebody else's baby, and there was a seige at Home Farm and a family called King moved in and one of them put his step-mother's coffin in a bin lorry and people in't village were being right strange - like they were actin' in a third rate pantomime... and there were a lot else besides..."

Mr Wilks smiles: "Amos, how many times have I told you not to eat cheese just before bed?"

So, it's still December 1989. Amos has dreamt all the events taking place in Beckindale/Emmerdale from December 1989 right up to 2008. Now, it's over to you! How do you imagine the saga may have continued if there had been no plane crash? If Amos hadn't retired in 1991? If Emmerdale Farm hadn't fallen down? Could Matt and Dolly have been reconciled? Should the teen element in the show have been raised - or lowered? What about the Tates, newly arrived in November 1989 - how would you have developed their characters? Would you have brought in the modern day characters of the Emmerdale saga? Would you have changed the name of the village?

What exactly would you have done if you were taking the show into the 1990s - and beyond?

Please share your alternative Beckindale Beyond The '80s Vision with us here at The Bugle - e-mail or leave your thoughts in the Comments. Our favourite entry will win colour signed photographs of Arthur Pentelow (Mr Wilks) and Ronald Magill (Amos Brearly) from the 1980s.