Competitions & Fun
Free and easy to enter competitions.
Welcome to the competitions and fun section of the Mature Times website – the voice of our generation! This area of the site is packed with competitions that are free to enter giving you the chance to win all sorts of different goodies on a regular basis.
Books, CD’s or DVD’s, theatre tickets, or holidays - there is always something worth winning on the Mature Times website.
New competitions are being added all the time – if you would like to receive automatic notifications of these, simply go to the registration area of our website, register for free, enter your full postal address and choose competitions as one of your interests – then you will receive regular updates.
Young people have theirs, now Seniors have their own texting codes:
- Thursday, 21 February 2013
I am not suggesting that anyone is in the "Seniors" category, but this may help you to interpret text messages from those who are...
* ATD- At the Doctor's
* BFF - Best Friends Funeral
* BTW- Bring the Wheelchair
* BYOT - Bring Your Own Teeth
Les Datéables!
- Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Oscar nominated Hugh Jackman has topped the list as the man British wives would most like to ditch their husbands for. The 44 year old Australian heart throb, who is nominated in the best actor category at this years Oscars for his part as Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, was voted number one in the poll of over 3000 members of the UK's leading married dating site IllicitEncounters.com.
Hugh, who has starred in a string of Hollywood blockbusters scored a massive 48% of the female vote making the Les Mis star the most popular with the British ladies. Fellow nominee Bradley Cooper, who is nominated for his role in Silver Linings Playbook came in second with 29% of the female vote. Star of the movie Flight Denzel Washington came in third with 16%.
Young entrepreneur
- Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Britain's youngest entrepreneur has set up his third business - at the age of NINE.
Henry Patterson started his first enterprise when he was just seven selling bags of manure for £1.
The schoolboy slicker then went on to set up his own eBay store where he sold items he had bought from charity shops - and made himself £150.
Winner of our Royal DVD Boxset competition
- Tuesday, 19 February 2013
The winner of our competition to win a complete DVD boxset of the Royals is:
Nicola Hunter - Angus
Congratulations!
Champion chips
- Monday, 18 February 2013
A family-run chip shop in Lincoln has been named as the best in the UK.
Burton Road Fish and Chip Shop beat thousands of other chippies to land the Choice Chip Awards title for producing the nation’s best chips.
The competition involved 35,000 fish and chip fans voting for their favourite shop.
Yesterday owner Des Anastasou, (corr) 53, who runs the business with his partner Lesley Graves, 46, said the secret to their success was thickly cut chips which are prepared fresh each day.
