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Win an EXCLUSIVE Venue for you to have a party in **WINNER ANNOUNCED**
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12-10-2009 7:41pm#1Hello there
Ever fancy hosting an unusual party AND having it paid for? How about a party for you and nine of your friends? In this? And in the location of your choice?
This is all thanks to the lovely people at Denny, who recently launched a website at http://www.homeis.ie.
Basically, they're asking people to tell them what their idea of home is. You can find them on video, on their wall, on Facebook, via twitter, by text 51444 (ROI) or 81515 (NI) - loads of ways to interact and win great prizes.
Even better, €1 or 85p will be donated to the Simon Community for every upload received!
In addition Denny is making a donation of €10,000 on behalf of every person who shares their story with the nation in Denny's new TV adverts, which will be filmed by award-winning filmmaker Paddy Breatnach Call. If you're interested in this opportunity call 1850 887 000 today to invite Denny round!
The Boards.ie competition:
(You'll have to excuse the photos. They're all we got)
So, for one lucky Boards.ie member, you will get the use of the Denny Home on Wheels (it's on the way around the country at the moment) for one evening to come to your home or the location of your choice and have a party evening there.
And whether it's a special event like a big birthday, somewhere to watch the big game with the lads, a PJ party, or even a romantic candlelit dinner for a proposal - it's up to you - Denny will provide venue, snacks and relevant entertainment, whether its beer, beauticians or magicians, to make sure you have a GREAT party!
To win, just post below on what home means to you and what sort of party you'd arrange in the Home on Wheels, which is, they promise me, much bigger inside than it looks. It fits 10 people, we're told.
You can check out the website or their facebook profile to get some ideas.
Let us know what you think!
Darragh
Terms and conditions:
No, Boards.ie isn't being paid to host this. Yes, moderators can enter. Winner will be chosen by Denny. Judges decision is final. No correspondence will be entered into. Closing date Thursday 22 October. Your party must be legal and Denny will want to know what you'll be doing with their home
No, the model is not supplied. Tagged:9
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Home is... somewhere with lots and lots of dog hair
I really, REALLY miss my four best friends. They're at "home" (Kerry) and I'm stuck in Dublin and, thanks to jobs, husbands/boyfriends and schedules, we don't get to meet up very often anymore. We all haven't been in the same room with our other halves since September 13th 2008 and it's not looking likely that we will for some time.
Unless one of us has a kick-ass excuse and the Denny Home on Wheels looks like it.
My idea of a good part is simple- all the girls with their misters, some decent wine and beer, some nice food on the BBQ outside the Home on Wheels, bit of music and loads of laughs.
The girls are up for a laugh but the boys are a bit quieter and take some prodding to get into prty spirit so something like a "pararazzi" at the door to take snaps for the night would be really cool. Once the night gets going and everyone's had a few beers, the photos will only get better and the prints will make a fantastic keepsake for all of us to remember a great night.0 -
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I have always been a home bird but more so a mammy's girl. When it came to college time I did move down to Waterford from Kilkenny. Although my home place was only 30 mins away it was time to attempt to fly the coop.
I think i spent more time driving up and down from home then i actually spent in the rented houses over my 4 yrs there.
When I finished college i decided to move in with my boyfriend of 2 yrs who lived up in the Midlands. It was what i wanted to do it but it broke my heart to think i would now be callin somewhere else 'home'.
At the same time my parents decided that they wanted to build a new home and sell the home place. We were all devastated as our parents were now wanting to sell our 'Home'. Sure we put up a bit of whinging for a couple of weeks but soon buttoned it and decided that our parents wanted this so now that we were grown up it was their choice.
Anyway the new house was built (5 mins away from home place) The home place was sold and they moved into the new house.
Approx 3 months after we moved everything in I realised that i did not miss the old house. And it made me kind of sad but the reason that i felt i did not miss anythin is because i had not lost anything. To me;
Home is family.
In the new house mam is still running around like a blue bottle saying how she can never get the house to stay clean.
Dad still sprawls out across the sofa and leaves his socks and shoes in the middle of the floor.
My sister still loves to watch TV in the sitting room on her own while the rest of the family watch tv together in the kitchen.
My nephew still runs in calls my mother 'granny' and then runs for his life (now still does it as a teenager.)
The back yard of the new home still has some form the half fixed item of machinery which dad was attempting to fix, got annoyed with it, bounced a wrench off it over 5 days ago and its still in the same position.
Dad still makes a Friday and Sunday morning grill and wakes us with the smoke alarm. Many's a morning you would meet him in the hall as he ran back up to the kitchen with the alarm under his arm tryin to shut it off being adamant that its too sensitive.
The cat still sleeps in her bed in the kitchen and sneaks down to bedrooms when mam isnt looking - just like in the old house. All the time mam is shouting ' The cat isn't coming in ! ' And two mins later we catch her opening the door to let her in.
And home is.....Always too hot cause mam is always cold and always has some form of heating on.
When i come to visit i am always happy to be there and as i drive off and see mam running from one window to the other waving good bye...I still find a tear on my cheek, just like when I used to leave the old house.
Home is......Family
The party in the Home on Wheels would have to be for me my parents and 2 sisters, my brother in law and nephew, my other half, his brother and auntie. Our families have never really had the opportunity to meet up properly so this would be perfect. We could take it on tour from the Midlands down to Kilkenny.
Those are the most important people to me so we wouldnt need anything else....o except maybe some wine, 80's music & irish ballads. 0 -
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Home is not where you live, it's where you feel most comfortable.
Which is why my home is 156 miles away from where I live.
As for the party, well as the girlfriend of a BGRH Brother it would only be right to ensure that plenty of pork products are on hand as well as copious amounts of beer. And raspberry vodka.0 -
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that's one of the funniest posts I've ever seen on this site - thanks!I dug out an old letter from my first year in College that i think encapsulates what home is for me.Sept. 2002,
Dublin,
Ireland
Mother,
I hope you are keeping well, I tried to write sooner but I was having trouble with this new 'Email' device they have in College. I may have to get a new biro as it will not work on the screen.
My first month has been quite eventful.
We finally got a Television in the House so rest assured I'm keeping up with the weekly happenings in 'Glenroe', but I must admit that I do so with a sense of melancholic sentiment, as the soft contours on Mileys Face only serve to remind me of the weary meandering roads around Timoleague.
My mind wanders home & I think of the simple things like old John Burke sitting on the wall at Noonans Cross, shouting at Cars and waving sticks.
Oh, how I long to walk into McGintys on a friday night, to see Patricia Cronin and give her an awkward wave-come-headscratch, when I realize she is waving at her friend behind me.
The girls in Dublin are ever so peculiar Mother, the vast majority of them have some form of ailment which leaves them looking a patchy Orange colour, like the colour of the carrots you are growing in the top haggart. I will try not to let that deter me from finding a girl who might accompany me to a Cheili.
I'm also not fond of the music here, most of the Pubs play loud obtrusive American music. Bands like 'Snoop Loggy Log' and 'Dr. Dray', whose credentials i'm sceptical about by the way. He certainly does not sound like a certified Doctor and i'll be sure not to visit him if my Hayfever returns.
My housemates are lovely people. There's Catriona from Belgooley, a nice Cork girl with many friends that like to stay over during the week. She seems very popular and i'm getting to know many new friends through her, they are mostly all Lads that play Hurling and Handball.
There's Johnny from Tuam, he plays guitar and always seems tired. He is a great singer but he's in desperate need of a haircut. He looks like Julia Roberts in that Film Pretty Woman.
There's also an odd smell from his Room, it reminds me of that musty smell from Maureen Buckley that used to deliver us Eggs years ago.
Then there's Geordan from Ballyboden, a reserved young Man that likes Rubgy & Sailing. He likes to make fun of my accent but it's all good natured, he sounds like Uncle James in Shropshire and also dresses like him too; cardigans, scarves and silly shoes. His friend, Uachtar Reoite Finnegan-O'Grady has similar characteristics.
I haven't much more news Mother only that I am looking forward to coming home at Christmas. Yesterday i thought i smelt one of your famous Frys so i turned down the Radio to check, i'm still unsure why i did that, but alas, it was just the smell from Johnnys Room.
Tell Dad I send my regards and of course, regards to my dear siblings; Maire, Donal, Dermot, Sean, Maura, Aileen, Tomas, Gobnait, Sinead, Mairead, Padraig, Mikey, Seamus & little Eoin.
All the best,
Declan.
P.S Tell Geraldine Forde I received the walkman in the post and that it is in fact “All the rage in Dublin”
Hmm, my ideal Party:- Good Food
- Good Music
- Good Beer
- & most importantly, good Company!
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