You will no doubt have read about the good fortune of Nigel Page and Justine Laycock who trousered no less than £56million in the Euro Millions lottery recently.

If that wasn’t enough to live on very comfortably for the rest of their lives that sum of money would also generate a very pleasant £190,000 in interest every month.

They have been paraded in front of the press of course and unlike some other Lottery winners came across as really normal, ordinary people who are looking forward to enjoying their good luck.

It drives me mad when you hear someone who’s just pocketed millions of pounds going on about how it “won’t change my life” and “we’ll just carry on as normal” or “we might buy ourselves a new front door or maybe even a bigger shed”.

I’m not trying to criticize people for not having aspirations but surely you buy a lottery ticket with one thought in mind and that is to win the jackpot.

Aside from the obvious treats of houses, holidays and cars I think most of us would try and do some good with a multi-million pound win. Apart from the fact that it must be very difficult to spend such a huge amount of money on yourself it would be such a good feeling to be able to help people and charities that need the money.

I’ve always said that if I got a Lottery win one of the first things I’d do would be to buy Merthyr Tydfil FC.

It’s normally followed by the punchline “just waiting for those three lucky numbers”.