Let’s do this together

I don’t consider myself a particularly lucky person – my winning haul so far has been one broken foot massager, a set of embroidered napkins, and an unidentified bottle of rose that I gave back to the stall holder in case I was ever tempted to drink it.

I almost won a bottle of champagne at the school tombola a few years ago. When we were given the choice of prizes on the table, I was trying to guide my daughter Jesse to the champers, but for some mind-boggling reason she chose a foot massager. The headmistress was watching so I thought it best not to beg Jesse to change her mind.

I still poke the The Dark Lord now about why she chose the big lump of plastic – which turned out to not work anyway – and she says, “I thought the massage would relax you.”

“The bubbly would have relaxed me even more!” I reply churlishly.

I try and do the lottery as much as possible because by playing The National Lottery you raise £30million for good causes every week, so for me, it’s a way of donating to charity. I just wish that charity started at home.

I remember coming up with my lucky numbers for the very first lottery back in November 1994. I joined the long queue in Sainbury’s in Whitechapel, East London, and chose carefully… 1, 4, 6, 9… and then I ran out of birthday numbers.

Since then I’ve always added random numbers with no real meaning to them. I fear this could be why I’m still here and not living in an expensive, gated community in Cheshire with a couple of Ferraris I’m banned from driving.

Email me at siobhan.mcnally@mirror.co.uk or write to Community Corner, PO Box 791, Winchester SO23 3RP.

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