The beautiful and remote Colonsay Hotel lies on the Isle of Colonsay, in the Inner Hebrides, where there are endless sandy beaches and stunning unspoilt landscape. The hotel has retained its many original features offering a wonderfully relaxed charm. There are huge open fires in the log room, library, restaurant and bar. The restaurant offers fresh, local produce, including superb seafood. The island offers, fishing, cycling, golf and there is plenty of wildlife to see.

Seven nights are offered for two people, in an exceptional room including breakfast. Any time excluding June to September.

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Four of the best seats in the house, plus drinks with the cast after the show, for this fantastic comedy treat! An amazing cast of comedians give up their time for free to support Helen and Douglas House, and if you have seen one of the three previous Childish Things you will know that tickets are hot, and the incredibly funny humour keeps you laughing all night long!

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What could be more perfect than a Box at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, to see the Christmas classic The Nutcracker performed by The Royal Ballet ?

The amazing Bedford Box is available for you and your guests on Saturday 3rd January, 2009. The Nutcracker is a seasonal favourite and wonderful for everyone to enjoy, from the youngest in the family to the oldest.

There could be fewer more perfect ways to complete the Christmas festivities than a trip to this magical production. As reviewed in The Guardian, This is a production that resembles the ideal Christmas decoration: "dusted off every year, yet always more fabulous than you remembered."

Experience all the excitement of attending one of the recordings of the next series of the highly successful comedy panel show, QI, likely to be recorded in May or June 2009. The guest list for each recording is not yet available (you will be able to choose which recording you wish to attend) but, to give you a flavour of the exciting guests in the new series going out on BBC 1 in January on Friday nights, they include Jo Brand, Clive Anderson, Rob Brydon, Ben Miller, Emma Thompson and Hugh Dennis - as well as regular panellist Alan Davies and, of course, hosted by Stephen Fry.

The lot includes four tickets to the London Studios and dinner at a nearby restaurant. You will be chauffeur driven from Oxford to London and back for this star-studded evening. So you will not forget this fun evening, you will also get a QI goodie bag with books and DVDs.

If you are coming from London, you can use the car on another occasion, maybe to transport your children home in style from school for an exeat or half term!

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Think you are tough, think you are gritty? Find out, when you and your team take up the ultimate endurance test at the Royal Marines Commando Challenge on 10th and 11th October, 2009.

This is your once in a lifetime chance to complete the World famous Royal Marines Endurance Course in Devon. The course forms one of the formidable "Commando Tests" that recruits and Officers from the nearby Commando Training Centre Royal Marines have to complete, carrying full kit, in order to win their Green Beret. You won't be carrying kit and a rifle... but it will still be hard enough!

You and your team run across Woodbury Common in Devon, through tunnels filled with water, across muddy pools and slide down hills!

The numbers for this event are capped and last year over 3,000 applications were turned down for this challenge. We have been offered a place for one team for a minimum of three people with no maximum. Minimum age 16.

If your idea of heaven is being outside, neck deep in muddy water... take up the challenge.

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An amazing opportunity for a child to invent and record a name for a brand new character in CITV's super successful television series, Horrid Henry, currently in production by producers Novel Entertainment.

What would you name your character? There are all the old favourites like Moody Margaret, Perfect Peter and Rude Ralph. But are you a Clever Clare or a Brainy Brian, and can you come up with a great new name ?

The new character will appear in an episode alongside Henry and his gang, queuing for a book signing with Henry's favourite author, TJ Fizz. The inspiration behind TJ Fizz is Francesca Simon herself, author of the best-selling Horrid Henry books, who also makes her cartoon debut in this unique episode.

This promise includes a behind-the-scenes consultation with the Producer to choose the Horrid Henry name, a visit to a recording studio to record the name and a Horrid Henry goodie bag with the latest Horrid Henry DVD and music CD, plus a DVD of the completed episode to keep forever.

So don't be a Weepy William and miss this one-off opportunity... it won't be offered here again!

Let the Chelsea Show's 2007 Silver Award Winner, Angus Thompson, save you some time and design your garden for you. The renowned designer responsible for garden designs across the UK ranging in style from a sophisticated town house in Holborn, London to the wildflower meadows and orchards of a five-acre Georgian house in Yorkshire, will recreate your own personal kingdom! Angus will discuss ideas in an initial site visit, then give a site appraisal, and a subsequent presentation including the Master Plan, Visuals and Section. Designs can be created hand in hand with architects and interior designers, notably Manser and Clare Williams. Angus will be showing at Chelsea again in 2009 and so this lot has to be taken by 15th February, 2009 due to his commitments. There is a reserve on this lot of £1,500.

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A shoot for six people (30 clays per person) at the historic Cornbury Park estate near Charlbury. Mr Jim Brennan, a very experienced game keeper and deer stalker, for Lord and Lady Rotherwick, will organise the shoot. Time and date to be arranged by mutual agreement. Participants must bring their own guns and gun certificates.

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Fantastic opportunity for someone really keen to pursue a career in design, to see first hand how Cath Kidston designs her vintage inspired prints. Cath Kidston is one of the leading and most loved designers in the country. Cath is still involved in every aspect of her business, despite its worldwide growth, and is both Designer and Creative Director. Spend a whole day in the Design and Buying Departments, and the very special part is that you will spend some time with Cath Kidston. To top it all, Cath will give you a large voucher to spend on the many wonderful Cath Kidston products in her shop!

This day is suitable for budding designers from A Block upwards (under sixteens should be accompanied by an adult, please.)