Episode #5.63

Bob starts this edition by saying he'd been to a lottery winners event where a farmer had told him he'd planned to carry on farming and not spend the money. Although presented as a joke, it appears to have some truth behind it, as in a diary entry dated 4th February 1998 Bob noted saying the same joke at an after-dinner speech.

Published in the 1999 book "Over The Limit", Bob stated that an elderly couple came up to him after his speech and said: "'Well, that's us, y'see, Bob. We're cattle farmers. Last year we won £4 million all but a couple of thousand. We're both in our sixties and our only son's settled in Australia so we sort of carried on, so to speak. Didn't let the money change us. Took a bit of stupid pride in it, as a matter of fact. [...] 'So we've just this last twenty minutes talked it over and we're going to sell up and go to Australia to see our grandchildren!'"