Winners

Very belated announcement of the winner's of our two giveaways last month.

Cookie and The CitzWinner of dinner for two at Cookie and tickets to see "After the End" at The Citizens on Tuesday 24th May is Mary Anne Meyering. (Mary get in touch quick to arrange getting you the prize.)

SeedbomThe two packs of Seedboms were won by Jen and by Gail. Strangely from clicking on the links in their comments it would appear that they both write food related blogs - one about a raw food diet and the other about recipe try outs and restaurant reviews. Odd coincedence?

Guys, send us an email to find out how to claim your prizes and your little Southside Happenings badges.

Great Southside Giveaway - Cookie and the Citz 2

There was a little bit of a mix up during last months giveaway and the winner ended up not being able to claim their prize. Cookie and the Citz have kindly offered to roll over their offer of dinner and tickets to a top play for a show in May instead.

So the prize is pre-theatre dinner for two at Cookie and two tickets to see the rather exciting sounding "After the End" at the Citz Tuesday 17th May @ 7:30pm. All you need to do to enter the prize draw is tell us "Your best Southside Secret". There will also be some runners up theatre tickets too so get entering, Winners will be announced on the Blog on the 10th of May so check back to see if you've won.

The usual Giveaway rules apply, click here to read

Cookie and The Citizen's theatre have recently teamed up to offer a 15% discount on pre-theatre food to people holding valid Citizen's tickets. "We want to put the theatre back into pre-theatre, we also want to let you wine and dine after the show. Our 2 course set menu costs only £10 for pre-theatre dining for patrons and we will have a taxi waiting for you."

And the winner is . . .

Fiona Gibson, who has won dinner for two and two tickets to see Marilyn tonight at The Citizens Theatre.

Runner up was Janet Chambers who wins two tickets to see Marilyn tonight.

Congrats to you both, hope you have a great night.

Great Southside Giveaway - Cookie and the Citz

Cookie and The Citizen's theatre have recently teamed up to offer a 15% discount on pre-theatre food to people holding valid Citizen's tickets. "We want to put the theatre back into pre-theatre, we also want to let you wine and dine after the show. Our 2 course set menu costs only £10 for pre-theatre dining for patrons and we will have a taxi waiting for you."

Both places are on our favourite list so this sounds like a great deal and with the new season underway at The Citizen's there are lots of good reasons to give it a try.

To celebrate this new deal we are pleased to offer pre-theatre dinner for two at Cookie and two tickets to see Marilyn at the Citz this Thursday night 10 March @ 7:30pm. All you need to do to enter the prize draw is tell us "Your best Southside Secret" *. There will also be some runners up tickets too so get entering, Winners will be announed on the Blog tomorrow morning so check back to see if you've won.

The usual Giveaway rules apply, click here to read

Marilyn
"During the summer of 1960, Marilyn Monroe and French actress Simone Signoret live in adjacent apartments at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Thrown together while Monroe films the movie Let’s Make Love with Signoret’s husband Yves Montand, the pair form an uneasy friendship, plagued by jealousy and insecurity. Under the watchful eye of Patti, hairdresser to the stars, it will become a relationship that will test their deepest beliefs and threaten to destroy them both."

The Citizens - http://citz.co.uk/whatson

Cookie - http://www.cookiescotland.com/

* This could be a place to have a picnic, your best cafe, restuarant and interesting piece of street art or something altogether more personal if you feel like sharing.

And The Winner is

The  Great Southside Christmas  Giveaway, winner,  is Deborah Johnston. Deborah has won the Christmas goodie bag, filled with  lovely objects from Hole in my Pocket.  Deborah, please send us an email to claim your prize.

Jane Gilgannon, Samuel Sparrow, Jennifer C, L Brown and Silent Bo all win Southside Happenings Badges, just send us an e-mail to southsidehappenings@gmail.com  and we'll post out your badge.

Thank you for all your suggestions and comments.

Christmas Gifts

We've been away for the last few weeks and missed all the snow. We have also returned to a world filled with Christmas music, decorated trees and white beared men dressed in red. This has brought home the fact that while November is a fun time to take your "summer" holiday it means you only have a few weeks left to do your Christmas Shopping, Arrrgh.

With that in mind we need your help, we want to stay South this Christmas and buy our loved ones gifts from the local area, so who has some suggestions for places to shop or particular southside based things to buy?

Leave a comment on the blog below to be entered into our Great Southside Christmas Giveaway and you will win a Southside Happenings goodie bag, filled with some of the lovely objects that we make in our day jobs (Some Christmas Cards, some books and a couple of signed mini prints) five lucky people will also win a gift that money just can't buy . . . a southside happenings winners badge and a couple of our "I heart the southside" and "Shop South" badges that we made for Bungo in the Back Lanes last summer.

The usual Giveaway rules apply, click here to read

Great Southside Give Away: Tickets for Jumping Mouse

We have four tickets to give away for the fantastic 'Jumping Mouse' show at Eastwood Theatre, on Friday 22nd October.

To enter you must be one of the following; our friend on Facebook, our follower on Twitter, signed up to our RSS email or signed up to our Mailing List. Then just leave your name and a comment below on the subject "Name a creative venue, place or person in the Southside" and you'll be entered into the draw. Please try to make sure it will be easy to identify you. If possible leave a link to your webpage, blog, Facebook or Twitter in the little URL option of the comments box.

The winner will be announced on 20 October 2010. For all the rules etc click here.

Jumping Mouse is set on a red double-decker and is a full-throttle adventure guaranteed to get you absolutely revved up.

Jump on the second bus, the driver’s saved you a seat. Come and meet a bullfrog blues band, a clapped-out bison, a forgetful wolf... and a most unusual little mouse, who’s about to have a very big adventure.

Unpacked use live music and songs, puppetry, high-octane physicality, and bits of a London bus to tell a magical story about growing up, adapted from a well-loved Native American folk tale.

“To put it simply, it was wonderful.” – Edinburgh Festivals Magazine

“All in all, Jumping Mouse is refreshing tonic that will leave you with a smile on yourface and hopefully give your kids a thirst for knowledge and adventure.” – Edinburgh Guide

Suitable for ages 4+

Eastwood Park Theatre

Friday 22 October

10.30am and 1.30pm

0141 577 4970

www.eastwoodparktheatre.co.uk

And the winner is . . . July 2010

Kids month's Great Southside Giveaway, winners, are Rebecca Thompson who has won the wonderful Kids rug from McKay Flooring, and Helen Walsh Sullivan who has won the huge pick + mix from Candy Love. The winners were selected by using the internet radomizer. Rebecca and Helen, please send us an email to claim your prize.

A special thank you to everyone at McKay Flooring, in Govan for donating such a fantastic prize for kids month and a huge thanks to Candy Love for generously donating such a great pick + mix. Plus thanks for all the tips on places for the kids, seems like the parks and the Tramway are the most popular places for kids in the Southside.

Helen and Rebecca hope you like your prizes and we look forward to getting your mini reviews of both them and the shops you collect them from.

The Great Southside Give Away - May/June

Today we're launch this months Great Southside Giveaway. The theme this month is based around Kids (Big Kids and wee Kids). We are delighted to be giving away a fantastic kids rug from McKay Flooring and a giant pic-a-mix selection from Candy Love on Pollokshaws Road. There may even be a couple of SSH badges being given away for the best comments.

To enter you must be one of the following; our friend on Facebook, our follower on Twitter, signed up to our RSS email or signed up to our Mailing List. Then just leave your name and a comment below on the subject "Name your favourite place or thing to do with Kids in the Southside" and you'll be entered into the draw. Please try to make sure it will be easy to identify you. If possible leave a link to your webpage, blog, Facebook or Twitter in the little URL option of the comments box.

The competition will run for three weeks and prizes drawn on 26 June 2010. For all the rules etc click here.

Great Skirving Street Giveaway - Winners Announced

The Great Skirving Street Giveaway has come to an end and our our birthday is over for another year. However, we do have lots of prizes to dish out! Before we announce the winners, we would like to thank everyone who entered the competition. We'd also like to thank everyone from Skirving Street who got involved in the The Great Skirving Street Giveaway. We really hope that we have helped spread the word about what a great street it is and how important it is to support independent local shops and businesses....so here goes.

Aislinn Gormley you will be having wonderful expresso mocha pot and 1901 coffee from Deli 1901; Jen Collinson you have won the fish supper from Blue Lagoon; Foto Jenny you may purchase any book or books up to the value of £20, for free, from the wonderful Young's Interesting Books. Chris Hunter you may like Grianach for their scones but here's your chance to have tea and cake at Biscuit; Gary, who's favourite place in the Southside is the glasshouses has won a bottle of wine from Odd Bins. Hope you play chess Lisa Rouke as you've won the chessboard from Cosgrove Care. Anne Dalton you have won a pair  of beautiful  vintage earrings from The Dressers Room; The lunch for two at Altura goes to Steffi Kerr and Emma McG the beautifully designed Earl & Pearl mug and tea towel, from the lovely Butterfly Kisses is yours. Craig Judge you get to choose a school tie from RW.Stevens; The free hair cut at Girasoli is going to John McDowell and finally the last prize coffee and cake for two at Beanscene goes to Lorna Templeton.

On top of your prize's listed above each one of you will be given an exclusive, new and shiny Southside Happenings winners badge. Send us an e-mail  southsidehappenings@gmail.com to confirm your prize and we'll send you details on how to go about collecting your prize and your SSH badge.

* Thank you for the e-mails regarding the SSH badges, we will be giving more away, so please don't try to bribe us - though we were almost tempted by the free ice cream and sweeties.

The Great Skirving Street Giveaway

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Just a reminder that the Great Skirving Street Giveaway will come to an soon, so if you've not entered yet click here and tell us your favourite place in the Southside. There are some great prizes up for grabs.

Barry from Youngs Interesting Bookshop  will be offering all Southside Happening readers 15% discount of any book purchased during April. All you need to do is tell Barry you read Southside Happenings. 

The Great Skirving Street Giveaway - Happy Birthday to us

It’s our third birthday this month, and being better than the Queen, we are preparing birthday celebrations for the whole month of April. We’ve also decided that receiving gifts is a bit old hat and have decided, with the help of some Southside businesses to shower birthday gifts on our readers.

As most of you know we love Skirving Street, there’s an interesting bunch of unique shops, café’s and restaurants located there. It’s a street that we should all support because interesting, one off, independent establishments make our cities a more interesting and enjoyable place to live.

So with the help of the Skirving Street shops: Odd Bins, Deli 1901, Blue Lagoon, Cosgrove Care, Biscuit, Girasoil, The Dressers Room, Youngs Interesting Books, Butterfly Kisses, 16 Cosgrove, Altura Restaurant, Beanscene, Skirving Peking and Cantonese, and RW Stevens we’re having the biggest birthday giveaway ever*

So here is the prize list: Lunch for two at the Altura restaurant*, Fish Supper from Blue Lagoon, a beautiful pair of vintage earrings from The Dressers Room, a lovely bottle of wine from Odd Bins, tea and cake or lunch at Biscuit**, a fantastic expresso mocha pot and 1901 coffee from Deli 1901, a very nice chess set from Cosgrove Care, a free hair cut from Girasol, a beautifully designed Earl & Pearl mug and tea towel from the lovely Butterfly Kisses, £20 worth of books at Young's Interesting Books, and last but not least coffee and cake for two from Beanscene.

To enter you must be one of the following; our friend on Facebook, our follower on Twitter, signed up to our RSS email or signed up to our Mailing List.

Then just leave your name and a comment below on the subject "Name your favourite place ie shop, theatre, restaurant in the Southside and why" and you'll be entered into the draw. Please try to make sure it will be easy to identify you. If possible leave a link to your webpage, blog, Facebook or twitter in the little URL option of the comments box.

The competition will run the whole of our birthday month and prizes drawn on 30 April. For all the rules etc  click here.

And the winner is . . . March 2010

This months Great Southside Giveaway, winner,  is Jen Allan who has won twelve personalised cupcakes from the fabulous Little Cake Parlour and free yoga classes for her and a friend at the newly opened Salutation Station in Polloksheilds . The winner was selected by using the internet radomizer. Jen, please send us an email to claim your prize.

If you're not Jen don't worry, Southside Happenings readers can still get 10% off in the Little Cake Parlour until the end of March! (click here)

It's our third birthday in April and to help you celebrate it we'll be launching a very exciting Birthday giveaway, more informaion on that soon!!

PS - thanks for all your great comments and suggestions during last months Giveaway, we'll go visit some of the ones we've not been to. Please keep leaving messages and sending us emails. Its much more fun running the site with your interaction.

PPS - Special mention to Lorraine who wrote her suggestion in verse. Top marks. Might make one of the future giveaways a wholly poetry competition. I know we southsiders are a creative lot.

The Great Southside Giveaway - March 2010

This month we are delighted to have a double prize up for grabs and also an extra special treat at the bottom of this post. 

The prize entails 12 delicious personalised cupcakes from the fantastic and amazingly tasty Little Cake Parlour on Pollokshows Road and three free classes for you and a friend* at the new Yoga School Salutation Station thats just started up in Pollokshields. (We haven't been to the Yoga Centre yet, so one of the conditions of the prize will be to write us up a short review.)

To enter you must be one of the following; our friend on Facebook, our follower on Twitter, signed up to our RSS email or signed up to our Mailing List.
Then just leave your name and a comment below on the subject "Name your favourite Southside place to have tea and cake" and you'll be entered into the draw. Please try to make sure it will be easy to identify you. If possible leave a link to your webpage, blog, Facebook or twitter in the little URL option of the comments box.

The competition will run until the 22nd of March. For all the rules etc then click here.

Extra Special Treat

Lisa, from The Little Cake Parlour, has also kindly agreed to offer all Southside Happenings readers 10% off all purchases at her shop during March. All you have to do is print out the below voucher and take into the shop and you'll get to try all the tasty goodness and keep extra dosh in your pocket.

*Free classes must be claimed by the end of June 2010

And the winner is . . .

The first winner of the Great Southside Giveaway is Rowan who has won a delicious dinner for two at Cookie. The winner was selected by using the internet radomizer. Rowan, please send us an email to claim your prize.

We'll be launching another extra tasty giveaway on Wednesday.

PS - thanks for all your great comments and suggestions during last months Giveaway, we'll try to include some of those ideas into the site. Please keep leaving messages and sending us emails. Its much more fun running the site with your interaction.

The Great Southside Give Away

We've been in discussions with a few Southside establishments about ways we can help to support them, while at the same time giving you guy's something back and making the site more interactive.

We are pleased to announce the first Great Southside Giveaway. This month, Cookie have agreed to donate dinner for two at their fabulous new eatery on Nithsdale Road.* Two course's of delicious locally sourced food and a glass of house Prosecco - for you and whoever has been extra nice to you this week.

You don't need to send us an answer on the back of a postcard. You don't need to call us. All you have to do is sign up to our RSS Email, Twitter, Facebook or mailing list, and leave a comment about what you would like to see on Southside Happenings below - Click Here for more details

If you're already signed up just leave us a comment below

* Prize Valid Tuesday-Thursday throughout March

Rules for The Great Southside Giveaway

Eligibility

To ensure that only regular readers can win, to be elligible for the Great Southside Giveaway, you must be one of the following; our friend on Facebook, our follower on Twitter, signed up to our RSS email or signed up to our Mailing List.
Then just leave your name and a comment on the current subject on Great Southside Giveaway Post and you'll be entered into the draw. Please try to make sure it will be easy to identify you. If possible leave a link to your webpage, blog, Facebook or twitter in the little URL option of the comments box.

For an extra chance to win you can also enter via Twitter

Follow us on Twitter @Southsidehap

Tweet the following message "Hey @Southsidehap I want a chance to win the Great Southside Giveaway. http://bit.ly/9rbZwd"

How the draw works

At the end of the month, we will put all the comments and tweets into a big digital hat and using the wonderful randomizer we will then pull out a winner.

Prizes

The idea with the prizes is to try and give something back to all our readers and to help promote some of the best the southside has to offer. Each month we will try and find prizes from people we really like from the Southside. We've got lots of ideas stored up for things we'd love to giveaway but if you have any suggestions then please send us an email.

Availibility

Prizes are subject to change or cancellation at any time - prize draw rules always seem to say this. I've never really been sure why, but just incase, the same rule applies here too.