What are we doing to celebrate the opening of Basillico’s sixth outlet on the 6th September? We’re going to give away a dinner in for two, that’s what we’re going to do. And you won’t even need to leave the comfort of your sofa (except to answer the door) to claim your prize.

Yes, Crouch End is the new addition to this delivery companies five outlets (Lavender Hill, Fulham Road, Finchley Road, East Sheen and Islington – fact fans) and these fine purveyors of “artisan pizzas cooked in wood-fired ovens” are generously rejoicing in this opening by donating this handsome – and delicious – prize.

Basillico are offering ONE lucky Qyper a prize of dinner for two, which includes an 18″ pizza, large salad, any dessert and (topping it off) with two smoothies or a bottle of wine. Entry couldn’t be any easier, choose one of these easy ways…

1. Email us with the subject line: “”Give me a slice, slice baby”

2. Tweet us with the phrase: “I want a pizza @qypedoeslondon ‘s Basillico action”

Competition closes Monday 6th September, 9.00am. To enter you need to live within delivery distance of one of the Basillico outlets and have a healthy appetite.

Remember our recent competition to win tickets to The Rake’s Progress at Somerset House? Well, our intrepid winner, Andrew Ampers Taylor, was nice enough to send back a report all about it:

As a member of the Qype community, I do read their emails. I looked at the last one and noticed a simple competition to attend The Rake’s Progress at Somerset House. This is not my favourite opera but as it turned out, a very well produced version.

When I heard I had won, the day before, my wife and I were quite excited. We knew it was outdoors so we packed our umbrellas and took cushions to sit on as concrete and bums are not entirely compatible. I took my emergency flask of brandy, together with a metal “flat-pack cup” and off we went.

The opera started at 6:30. We got there at 5:30 to pick up our guest tickets and popped out to the bar outside on the river bank and killed time with a lovely glass of wine. At 6:30pm there was a short talk to tell us what was happening and the screening, direct from Glyndebourne itself, started.

The Rake’s Progress is about a young man who refuses to work with his lady-friend’s father and goes to London to make his fortune. He is accosted by a sinister figure calling himself Shadow, who offers to be his manservant, and wages could be ignored for a year and a day. At the end of a disastrous year, Shadow turns out to be the devil in disguise and wants the Rake’s soul. They play cards for it and the Rake wins and Shadow, a poor loser says, you can keep your soul but he makes him insane. The opera ends with the Rake’s girlfriend who still loves him, visiting him in Bedlam. All rather sad but then, it’s an opera!

During the performance we bought a small bottle (two glasses worth) of Lanson champagne for a tenner and, during the interval, purchased another! Only this time we turned it into champagne cocktails using my flask!  We now know we could have taken a hamper with us filled with food and champagne. If we return, then this is what we would do next time.

The opera finished at ten o’clock and we decided to go by bus home to Finchley to make a change as we were really pleased with the evening and didn’t want it to end. And were a little merry to boot.

Guest post by our competition winner, Andrew Ampers Taylor

Have you started to notice the urban landscape of your beloved Borough of Hackney transforming into a more Olympic-friendly environment? How do you feel about that? No matter your opinion about the Games coming to town, don’t you think it would be a good idea for folks familiar with the area to document the Hackney of today before 2012 mania forever changes its look and feel?

Hackney Museum and Archives have been awarded Heritage Lottery funding to record how Hackney residents feel about the changes brought about by the Olympic and Paralympic Games. This involves a number of projects that will encourage participants of all ages and backgrounds to reflect on how they feel about the current changes and respond in a creative way. One project – which is just crying out for submissions by East London shutterbugs – is Capture Hackney. A collaboration with photographic events company Shoot Experience, Capture Hackney will provide a visual record of pre-Olympic Hackney for post-Olympic posterity.

Anyone’s welcome to submit an image up until the 17th of September with a selection of images to chosen by a panel of judges including Stephen Gill, to be exhibited at Hackney Museum as part of Mapping the Change exhibition. There are, of course, plenty of other perks and prizes for peeps keen to participate. To find out more about this opportunity to share your shots of Hackney, visit Shoot Experience’s Capture Hackney webpage.