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CHRISTMAS and the LAKE DISTRICT themed GIVEAWAY
15th November 2022
We are delighted to offer this fantastic, Christmas and the Lake District themed giveaway, in conjunction with Avon Books.
UK ONLY
A copy of The Christmas Holiday by Phillipa Ashley
A Lakeland Lake District Christmas Hamper
A Lake District Christmas Tree decoration from Feather&Wild
A Lake District Mug from Go Your Own Way
The Christmas Holiday by Phillipa Ashley
Krystle didn’t have a normal childhood and longed for warm family Christmases with presents under the tree. Now she makes sure everyone else has the perfect Christmas she never had, bringing beautiful decorations to cheer as many people as possible.
With her festive business booming, she decides to celebrate by renting a secluded house in the Lakes, with a plan to make this the ultimate yuletide getaway.
But fate immediately throws a spanner in the works in the form of a broken-down car, a flooded river and Max; a man who despises Christmas.
Krystle becomes determined to show Max the joys of the holiday. She won’t take no for an answer.
Can she melt Max’s Grinch-like heart? And can he show her that life doesn’t need to go to plan to take you somewhere magical…
We are running this giveaway across our Social Media as well, and details of how to enter are outlined below. This is a UK only giveaway.
HOW TO ENTER – you can enter on each platform to maximise your chance of winning. One winner will be chosen at random from across all platforms. The giveaway ends on 22 November 2022 / UK ONLY
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Delighted to share that @ jessie.aevans over on Instagram is the winner of this terrific giveaway!
With my family at home
My dream has been to spend Christmas in a snowy log cabin. One day.
Anywhere with my family, this year in my own house
Would love to spend Christmas in a log cabin snuggled away from the world with my boys x
I’d love to spend Christmas in a cottage in the country but I am stuck in London
Not very exciting but I’ve always loved being at home for Christmas. I would like to be able to crank the heating up though.
I’d love to spend Christmas somewhere snowy, maybe Canada with my cousin
I love spending Christmas at home with my family
I would love to spend one more Christmas with my grandma and grandad xxx
With my family in the Lake District
I’d love to celebrate a white Christmas at the Rovaniemi Lapland Christmas Village in Finland.
I’d like to spend it somewhere warm.
I would love to spend Christmas at a rural country hotel with all the family so no one has the stress or worry of cooking or cleaning for Christmas
A lovely country hotel with all my family so no one has the pressure of cooking or cleaning for Christmas
With friends in Rome, been before and really enjoyed it.
I’d like to spend Christmas, if only it were possible, in the snowscape of my early childhood when the family was still entire.
Christmas in a new place with a natural view would be perfect for me and the family
In LAPLAND with my wonderful wife.you are never too old to dream PS PLEASE EVERY1 STAY SAFE AND WELL AND HAPPY XMAS TO U ALL AND LETS HOPE THAT2023 IS A BETTER YR FOR EVERY1
I like spending it anywhere family is.
The perfect Christmas is at someone elses home where I don’t need to worry about cooking and cleaning up after!
I’d like to spend it visiting relatives in America
A mountain retreat in Snowdonia with my family and dog, with log burner and marshmallows
At home, with the family!
I am completely happy at home. My husband cooks the best Christmas lunch anyone could wish for
I would love to spend it in a cosy small town in the USA along with all my family
I love spending Christmas at home. I always have. First with my parents and sister, then with hubby and a few years later our children and now grandchildren. We celebrate together and have traditions that go back 75 years. As the saying goes, there really is no place like home.
i dont mind as long as im with my family
A wonderful Prize to enjoy in the comfort of my home.
australia would be cool over xmas
I would ideally like to spend Christmas in Snowdonia
I’d like to spend Christmas in the Lake District – fresh air, beautiful scenery, an open fire and a good book. No where better on earth!
At home with the family all around. Tried Christmas in Spain one year and travelled one Christmas to extended family for the day but can’t beat being at home.
Finnish Lapland with guaranteed snow and all hygge and cosy with logfires and twinkly lights
I’d love to spend Christmas in the Lake District in a cosy cottage surrounded by snow
Somewhere snowy and isolated, with a roaring fire and a pile of books and mince pies
Yes please.
For me, the only place to spend Christmas is at home or with family. It just wouldn’t be Christmas in some random place I’d no link to.
I’d love to spend Christmas in Cornwall. Preferably in St Ives or Port Issac
Charistmas in The Lakes would be magical
I would love to spend Christmas in Austria.
In our little cottage in Flimby, Cumbria with my husband and dogs.
In beautiful Swiss chalet with lots of snow x
anywhere as long as I’m with my family.
At home.
I’d like a quiet Christmas, just me and the hubby, preferably with someone else doing the cooking!
At home with my mum (she sadly has cancer so think this will be her last one)
In a beautiful cottage on Oxwich Bay,Gower with a log fire,delicious food,without the worry of the cost of living crisis. The beach within walking distance where I can reminisce on wonderful memories that I hold of special days my late partner and I spent there.
I’m looking forward to visiting my Auntie in Carlisle this Christmas We always find somewhere for afternoon tea ❤️
In a beautiful cottage on Oxwich Bay,Gower with a log fire,delicious food, without the worry of the cost of living crisis. The beach within walking distance where I can reminisce on wonderful memories that I hold of special days my late partner and I spent there.
My favourite place to spend Christmas is always at home! I like to have my family around me and and cook for them and relax with them!
Shetland
With my beautiful daughter and her partner, not sure of the where, just the who
Christmas in Lapland would be amazing
At home with the family and a huge turkey
I would love to spend Christmas in Australia.
On the beach in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand.
I’d love to spend Christmas overlooking lake Windermere, and maybe have paddle on the big day.
id love to spend christmas in laplad
anywhere cosy with my family around me
With the whole family in a castle with roaring log fires and a huge Christmas tree.
With my family, in a cottage by the sea.
Would love to spend Christmas somewhere where it snows!! This year we are off to Krakow on Boxing day, so maybe I will get to see some snow!
I would love to spend Christmas somewhere with snow and mountains – Snowdonia, Scotland, Switzerland etc
Sydney, Australia.
Lake District, of course!
Only one place I would like to be and thats at home with my family and twinkling Christmas tree then santa knows where to find me.
At my daughter’s house with all my family
I’d love to spend it in Australia one day so I can experience a hot Christmas day!
I just love Christmas at home with my family
My son and family live in Sydney Australia so my dream would be to enjoy Christmas with them and watch my grandchildren open their gifts
I’d like to spend Christmas as home with the family. Have to say going away and travelling at Christmas has never appealed to me.
A warm place, don’t mind where. Hate the cold.
A warm place would be good. Hate the cold.
Dashing through the snow on a one horse sleigh in Austria with a warm throw and a mulled wine
I would love to spend Christmas Day, with my extended family, on Bondi Beach.
Finland or Lapland
Right here at home with my husband.
I would love to spend it on a remote island with no internet or television so that I can spend my time reading and generally being lazy without any feelings of guilt.
I’d like to be in our camper van in the Cotswolds, for beautiful scenery , good walks and great food
I’d love to spend Christmas in a cabin somewhere in Canada!
Grasmere, in the Lake District
In a cosy cottage on the Yorkshire Moors
Right at home. I love nothing more than a snug Christmas at home. I’ll keep my travelling for the rest of the year.
I would love to spend christmas in New York
in romania with my in laws
I would love to spend Christmas in New York, Kevin McCallister style.
I love Christmas with the family where ever that might be
I’d love to spend Christmas in a snowy cabin in a Scandinavian country
I’d love to spend a few days in Iceland. If I could see the Northern Lights, that would be wonderful
Eating breakfast with giraffes on safari. My ultimate dream location
We are actually going to the Lake District for Christmas. After my Dad passed away earlier this year we wanted to do something different and as we normally have Christmas at home this year we are going away with my Mum. My lovely husband, Peter, will have nagging in stereo
I would love to spend Christmas with my family in a house on Windermere one of my favourite places
I’d love to spend Christmas in a five star hotel in the country Log fires and Carole and delicious food
I would love to go to Edinburgh!
I’d love to spend Christmas in Iceland.
At home with the family
In a snow covered log cabin in Switzerland with a roaring fire, endless books and lots of eggnog.
In a snow covered log cabin in Switzerland with a roaring fire, endless books and lots of eggnog
We are so Lucky to have such a Wonderful Area in the United Kingdom
I’d love to spend Christmas in St Wolfgang in Austria
Great Christmas Gifts for all the family and a book to read for my wife… what could you ask for more!
I’d love to spend Christmas in New Zealand with my family
Ideally I’d love to spend Christmas in Edinburgh, Scotland
I’m very happy to stay at home with family and a pile of books to read!
I’d love to hunker down in a cottage in Snowdonia for Christmas
Keswick
I would love to take my little girl to Disneyland Paris, after a tough year a bit of magic would make the year go out on a high. Besides who wouldn’t want to go to Disney ♀️
I would love to spend Christmas in Switzerland in a cabin with a view of the mountain with my whole family.
I don’t mind where I spend Christmas as long as I’m with family
I would like to spend Christmas on Malta – It is warmer than the UK, easy to travel around and has a lot of Christian festivals at their many churches.
I would love to spend Christmas with my family in the beautiful Historical City of Winchester.
I would love to spend Christmas in a cosy cottage in Scotland with a roaring fire. Plenty of mince pies and mulled wine too.
I love the Lakes and the Yorkshire Dales but I do enjoy the bright lights of NYC
Longing to spend Christmas at my brother and sister in law’s home as I usually do, I’d love to spend my day in the highly popular destination of Sunderland with them all.
I wish I was on a cruise! Xmas 2019 I was in the Mediterranean, it was bliss
WOW would love to spend Christmas in New York ❤❤❤ maybe one day if i win the lottery that is
I would love to be with all my family in a remote log cabin in Canada with lots of snow
I’d like to spend Christmas at home in North Wales. Whilst I have considered spending Christmas elsewhere, I always feel that home is the place to be!
My perfect Christmas place is anywhere my family are.
I would spend it with my family and our dog, snowed in, in a log cabin in the scottish highlands. Oh and with a roaring open fire. Watching all the family gathering around a Christmas tree opening presents. Xx
Lapland. My daughter only just still believes in Santa. She’d love it.
With family at their place
I would love to spend Christmas in lapland and feel all christmassy. This is my first Christmas i am spending in Cumbria and i would love to win this amazing prize
i was single till i was in my 40s and then met a really wonderful woman who i am now her carer. we have been together 13 years and she kidnapped me lol i stayed with her for a week then she missed me so much she drove over 6 hours to Scotland and turned up on my doorstep and asked if i would move in with her in England and i did we went back together and have been together since that was in 2009 .
my mother in law looks afer me i have ms.
Spending Christmas anywhere with my family and loved ones is always special
I’d love to spend Christmas at Lapland. You’re never too old for a bit of festive magic!
To my daughters in gowerton.
Would love to spend Christmas at Portmeirion in North Wales with my family with a hamper containing everything we’d need including stockings for my adult ‘children’.
I would love to spend Christmas in Italy on the banks of Lake Garda, simply beautiful
I’d love to be in Germany again visiting Christmas markets. And drinking gluhwein of course!
I would love to spend it in Patterdale in the Lake District my go to place x
On the Isle of Skye
Having been away from home the last couple of years for Christmas, I can’t wait to have our Christmas this year in our new home in Cornwall …. that to me is ideal!!! Many thanks
There is no doubt in my mind that York is the loveliest place to spend Christmas. A walk down The Shambles with beautifully decorated Olde Worlde charm and York Minster lit up cannot be beaten.
Not least, a sumptuous afternoon tea at Bettys with a Yorkshire Fat Rascal Scone. If it snows that would be a bonus.
I‘d like to spend Christmas in the Cornish village of Mousehole which has a spectacular light show and comes alive with its kaleidoscopic light from the middle of December. FAB-U-LOUS!
I would love to spend Christmas in a cosy cottage with a real fire, by the sea in Cornwall and I would have my two children and two grandchildren with me
would like to spend Christmas on a desert isle in the sun
I love Christmas at home in Lancashire, but ideally I would have family members who I have lost over the last few years to join me.
To be honest I like spending Christmas at home x
I would love to spend Christmas in a beachside spa hotel in Thailand, where I could eat delicious food, swim in the sea and have a massage every day! ⛱️
A trip to the Lake District would make a Special Christmas.
I’d love to spend Christmas at Portmeirion in one of their cottages with my family with a hamper containing everything we’d need including stocking fillers for my adult ‘children’ and husband….one for me too would be brilliant.
I would love to spend Christmas with family in New York
I’d love to spend Christmas in Lapland
Ideally I’d love to spend Christmas in a country hotel in somewhere like New England
I’d love to spend Christmas at Mother Ivey’s Bay in Cornwall. It’s right on the coast with stunning scenery, a place my husband and I love.