The Scratch cards - Part One.

It's been a manic few weeks to say the least.

I thought I'd start elaborating and explaining the events that have happened to me in sequential blog posts - this post is about the initial response and reception to the scratch cards I sent out:


Initially, I got nothing.

I sent all the scratch cards in the post with 2nd class stamps, this was mostly to be cost effective but forgot how slow they travel. About 5 days had passed and I feared the worse and that it didn't work in the slightest. "All the effort of doing this, for nothing!" I said to myself, cradling myself in the foetal position.

But then, a light. I got a tweet.

Michael Acton Smith OBE is CEO and founder of kids entertainment company Mind Candy and Moshi Monsters. Both really cool and creative companies. My Twitter essentially snowballed from there. Lots of tweets, retweets, favourites meaning I amassed approximately 70 new followers in the space of a week or so. Absolutely bananas.

Within a few hours of this tweet, I received an email:

Declan sent me over some questions which I answered in excited glee. A few hours later it was a live Buzzfeed article.

Probably the only time I'll be in between Jaden Smith and Benedict Cumberbatch.

From there, I got mountains of congratulations in messages and emails. It's been really amazing and overwhelming how many people were pleased for me, I'm incredibly touched.

THEN from here - I got a message through an old friend asking if I wanted to go onto London Live for a TV interview. 

It was all rather surreal. A cab picked me up the next morning at 5.30 am and I went off to telly land.

TV land.

The green room with appropriately green chairs.

Living the high life with all the instant free goodies.

The other guest in our slot was an exotic animals handler. Managed to play with a snake and a gecko!

(Blurry) Security pass.

On the telly - click here to watch.

Oh dear. Not too impressed with that last shot.

It was an hourly segment in the news show which was repeated meaning I did the same interview 3 times with slightly differing questions. What an experience! The first time round I was fine, I was actually a little nervous the second time round but otherwise it was an absolute adrenaline rush.

As if that wasn't enough, that afternoon when I got home I got another email:

To be continued in Part Two...