I’ve had a rather nail-biting week, watching the media as day after day goes by without anyone claiming the £113 million EuroMillions lottery that was won almost a fortnight ago. Camelot, the national lottery operator in the UK, said that as many as 1,000 people came forward claiming that THEY were the winners – even though they didn’t have the winning ticket. One old woman even claimed that her husband had lost the ticket but she had ‘jotted down the numbers in her notebook’ before buying it and therefore she could prove that she was the winner. (Um, no). So I was really relieved to hear that FINALLY, a winner has stepped forward to claim the prize and Camelot has confirmed that this is the real winner. He or she prefers to remain anonymous at this time but are missing out on the glory of bragging in public that they are now richer than Phil Collins and Rod Stewart …
Here is a strange but true lottery story to end off with:
An 86 year old Canadian woman dreamed that she had won the lottery and was so convinced that she would win that she went out the next morning and bought a lottery ticket. ‘Just in case’, she bought ANOTHER ticket and played the same numbers. Amazingly, the numbers were in fact the winning ones for that week and the pot was for $24 million. Having two tickets on the same numbers saw Mary Wollens take home two thirds of the prize – a whopping $16 million!
