Gold’s Only Fools and Horses Competition
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Dears readers,
do you know it’s been 30 years (30!!!) since Only Fools and Horses first aired? I was aware I grew up with this stuff but 30 years!
To celebrate the occasion Gold is running a competition where you get a chance to stay at Del Boy’s humble abode at Nelson Mandela house in September. The prize also includes a takeway meal in the value of Ł40 (looove this!) The competition is unfortunately only open for UK residents. Visit their Facebook page to enter.
In case you do not win you can still apply and rent the flat for the total sum of Ł18 (yup those were the prices back in the day). You will just have to send an email to nelsonmandelahouse@feverpr.com for your chance to win (there are still slots available and tenants can apply until August 30th).
As you can see from the pics it is not *precisely* as it was back in the day, but it is a damn good effort. Not to mention it is a piece of TV history, no? I heart that show so much and it still makes me laugh.
So go on, what are you waiting for?


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I am a huge fan of OFAH!
[...] Only Fools and Horses creator dies John Sullivan one of British TV's most popular and successful co…tion="John Sullivan OBE writer and creator of Only Fools and Horses. "][/caption] Only Fools and Horses is regularly voted in polls as the the greatest British sitcom of all time. It ran from 1981 to 1991 but continued in Christmas specials right into the new millennium. The 1996 special Time On Our Hands, was billed as the final episode and saw lead character, Del Boy Trotter, come good on his ambition to make himself and Rodney millionaires (always pronounced mullionaires). It was watched by more than 24 million people, a record for a sitcom in the UK. But the demand by the viewing public for follow-ups saw Sullivan eventually return to the story of the Trotters from 2001 for occasional Christmas specials. I must say, from a personal point of view, the show regularly included scenes that literally had me crying with laughter. Who could forget Del Boy's fall in a wine bar when trying to impress some Yuppie young ladies. The chandelier scene when Del had convinced some Lord of the Manor that he, Rodney and Grandad were experts at cleaning vintage chandeliers. And the entire episode when Del Boy won a trip to Spain after he entered one of Rodney's old paintings in a cereal box competition for under 13's. Rodney had to spend the entire holiday pretending he was Del Boy and his own girlfriend Cassandra's son and join in all the games set up for the teenagers. [...]