I failed to win last night’s lottery draw and forgot to buy a ticket for tonight. As a result I am £2.50 poorer than I would have been if I hadn’t bothered at all. Normally I don’t bother, but the thought of winning £160,000,000 tempted me into buying a ticket.
This means that plans to live in an air-conditioned bubble and exist renewable energy will have to be put on hold.
It’s strange how plans change. If I’d won the lottery when I was 24, sports cars, wine, women and song would have featured heavily in my plans. If I’d won at 44 my plans would have centred round Julia and the kids. Now, at 64, I appear to have changed into a slightly demented hermit. The funny thing is that I’m happy with the idea and am starting to see where Elon Musk gets his ideas from.
I’m not even sure if I’d want to leave work if I won the lottery. It’s not like it’s unpleasant being a coin dealer, and I don’t have much else to do. Since Covid and the rise in fuel prices caused by the war in Ukraine I don’t want to go out as much so if it wasn’t for work life would be very dull. I don’t even do my own shopping these days.
I’m not sure there’s much we really need. I doubt I’ll be allowed to build an air-conditioned bubble so I’ll probably just buy a bungalow with solar panels. It’s not quite so much fun as a sports car but sometimes you have to face facts – we have to save the earth, and with my knees I really don’t see a sports car as a realistic option these days.
Mrs Tootlepedal won £30 on tonight’s lottery. We are brainstorming on what to spend it on. Ecologically sound housing may be a bit out of our range.
With great wealth comes great responsibility ‘. . . I won £3 on the Powerball and used it to buy another ticket. If I win the £180 million I will buy Mrs T another grouse moor.
She says thank you very much and will accept graciously.
I will make a note. 🙂
Dreams and plans change as we age, for sure. I find myself looking back a lot. At my age and where I am in life, I spend a lot of time looking up human and cat medical issues. Although I was not looking for information on roundworms, I came across this animated video, both educational and hilarious. Hopefully you can view it.
Unfortunately it won’t play for me, but even the thought of it cheered me up! 🙂
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So sorry you didn’t win. You could have bunged me a bit.
That would be the nice thing about winning now – I can spread it round because I won’t need as much as I once did. However, step one needs to fall into place – win the money.