There it goes… my English lottery dream… my chance to take home GBP 250,000 and buy a new home in the country and a smart sports car to park outside in the winding driveway… The operators of the UK’s national lottery, Camelot, confirmed this week that a quarter of a million pound lottery ticket went unclaimed for the full year and the deadline to claim it has now passed. As such, the money from the Lotto Plus 5 has now been transferred to the lottery’s Good Causes fund. In true understated fashion, a spokesman for the lottery would only comment: “I would urge all players to check their tickets.”
YOU DON’T SAY! And what do you think I’ve been doing for the past few weeks in a desperate attempt to find out if maybe, just maybe, I was the winner of this unclaimed prize?!
And as nod to all things English that are well-mannered and understated:
The Queen of England was showing the Archbishop of Canterbury around the Royal Stables when one of the stallions close by farted so loudly it couldn’t be ignored.
‘Oh dear,’ said the Queen, ‘How embarrassing. I’m frightfully sorry about that.’
‘It’s quite understandable,’ said the archbishop, and after a moment added, ‘as a matter of fact I thought it was the horse.’
