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I thought the other designs were fantastic - the HOPE design in particular - so I was genuinely just made up to to even get into the top 5, especially considering some of the others I'd seen on Twitter that didn't make it. So when they called I couldn't stop shaking! A level of excitement I don't think I'll ever forget.

Honestly, I think that's the most exciting bit of it! I can't quite believe people will be wearing it! Wild!

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Ah, thank you! I really, really appreciate that. I'm slowly coming back down to earth!

Huge congrats! 🙌 I know how hard you were trying and how much you wanted to go, so enjoy! The universe finds a way!

Thanks Lucy. That's really kind of you. I appreciate that a lot ☺️

Thank you so much! I appreciate that an awful lot. I know it won't necessary have been everybody's cup of tea, but I thought long and hard about what I thought fulfilled the brief and would look good as a tattoo, so I'm just glad it resonated.

Thank you! I'm honestly pinching myself, because there were some absolutely fantastic designs that didn't even get through to the final five but which I think should have.

I can; it was the one which won 😀 I actually still can't quite believe it! I'm ecstatic about winning the tickets (this would have been the first Glastonbury I'd missed since 2004), but I'm even more excited about seeing people wearing a design that I spent a long time on as a temporary tattoo! It's just a shame that they all couldn't win because I thought they were all great in different ways.

Interesting! I had quite a few Distill pings today, but they were all other festivals. So must have missed Glasto popping up. Still, I’m glad there are still some getting lucky!

Winner gets a pair of tickets, runner up gets nothing!

Haha! I'll tell you after the winner has been announced in the interests of fairness! 😀

Ok, thanks mate. I'll be treating every other weekend up until the festival like a working day trying, but it would be nice to enjoy my weekend in Cork! Haha!

I know, I'm only joking. Mine is one of the final five, but I like this design too very much. Good luck @ccopeland271

Booooooo 😄

Quick question on the Oxfam places: I'm sure this has been answered before, but I can't find it! Have places ever come up over the weekend, or is it highly unlikely? I know it's very late in the day now anyway, but I'm away this weekend, so just wanted to know if I should be chained to my phone, or if I can be confident that it's probably not necessary!

I submitted three different designs. The one that was chosen I actually think it the least good of the three, but it's a much simpler design and I think fulfills the brief better. So I think you're right about printing permutations.

Haha. No, I totally get it and you're right about one of them - it has four colours!

Haha! Mine is one of the five, but I'm not going to say which - I'll let the public decide! But I went through numerous designs before I got to the point where I thought I'd fulfilled the brief and it didn't look clip arty! So we'll see!

Lovely. I've got one going but hadn't thought to stagger 5, so will do that too! Thanks.

Is that via the actual website or just via an extension?

I think there are different approaches to setting it up that will give different results. Have you got yours hardcoded into the app on your phone/browser (I couldn't do this for some reason, as I couldn't log in past the CAPTCHA, I just kept on getting 'invalid login') or are you just monitoring the page via extension and then getting pings to the Watchlist on your phone?

Missed out this morning as I was driving when my Distill pinged. Pulled over the first chance I had but alas, too late. I'm trying to remain philosophical about it: maybe it's just not meant to be this year! Huge, huge congrats to everybody who bagged one though. Made up for you all. So glad your persistence paid off!

As Lenny Kravitz once said: … Here we are still together We are one So much time wasted Playing games with Oxfam places … So many tears I've cried So much pain inside But baby, it ain't over 'til it's over So many weeks we've tried To keep our dream alive But baby, it ain't over 'til it's over Something like that anyway.

Just have to take it day by day and see what happens 🤞🏻