A GREAT gran who won £166,666 says her husband will have to write a “begging letter” if he wants to see a single penny of it.
Gill English landed the cash on People’s Postcode Lottery in Rugby, Warwickshire – and is now planning a slap-up carvery dinner for her big family.
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The retired carer also said she is prepared to buy her hubby a new pair of shoes – but only once shes sees his “begging letter”.
Gill said: “Oh my God! Flippin’ heck! I’ll take the family to a carvery. I also said I’d buy Kev a new pair of shoes.
“He’ll have the begging letter written!”
Retired chauffeur Kev laughed: “I’ve already written the begging letter.”
The couple are both recovering from cancer.
Kev had melanoma and Gill is still receiving treatment after having part of her right lung removed.
But Gill said they are more interested in helping family – including her three sons, eight grandchildren and nine great grandchildren – than treating themselves.
She said: “I love buying presents and love doing things for people. It’s lovely when you feel you have done something for somebody.
“I love giving. I get great joy out of it. If you’ve got money, you’ve got it. If you haven’t, you haven’t.
“I’m not money motivated, but I am now! This is so lovely. Thank you.”
Gill also revealed she hadn’t told her hubby that she played Postcode Lottery until she got the call to say she’d won.
She said: “Kev didn’t know I even played; I don’t tell him everything. I hadn’t told anyone except my youngest son.
“I’ll never get any sleep now just working it all out.”
Kev said: “It wasn’t a secret, she just never told me.”
How to enter the People’s Postcode Lottery
- The Postcode Lottery is a subscription-based lottery in which players sign up with their postcode.
- Your postcode is your ticket number – 40p a day ensures entry into all drawers, or £12 a month.
- Once subscribed, they are automatically entered into every draw.
- Prizes are announced every day of the month.
- If your postcode gets luck, every player in your postcode wins.
- 33 per cent of the ticket price will go to charity that is re-funnelled back into the community.
