La Bombera and I have actually talked about this. The initial intention would be to set up family and friends with gifts, set ourselves and the Bombitos up, then systematically give the rest away. Put it to work on causes of our choice. Say what you will about Bill Gates but he's biven away more money than anyone alive.

'Course if we'd won we may have done like so many others and work hard at losing it on stupid shit.

A friend of mine has worked six months a year in Kenya on malaria for years, and says Bill Gates has, quite literally, changed the game.

Followed by the purchase of a lovingly-preserved Morris Minor and some tickets for a trip to Sydney, San Francisco and a few other places.

Then I admit I will have run out of things I want.

I mean, it's fairly common for people to talk about wanting to buy their sports team of choice if they win big... I don't really do sport (purely scientific interest in the Spanish national team aside), so maybe it makes sense to buy a magazine publishing company. Or bankroll my favourite bands - maybe buy out a label, or set up my own...

before I'd checked the ticket, and found it wasn't me. It boiled down to largesse to close family, followed by having the most eco-friendly and power-skimping house I could organise built - But I also want an Overfinch Range Rover, so where's the logic in that?

But I wouldn't mind giving it a go...

Sneak quietly off to a hired cottage on the west coast of Ireland/Scotland for a few weeks ... take a new Mac laptop with me, and the mobile ... pay off the credit cards and the mortgage, buy £30k of Premium Bonds and stick the annual max in an ISA ... realise I still have more than €112 million left ...

Discreetly ask if my parents or brother's family have any requirements ... attend to them ... pay off an ex girlfriend's massive credit card debts as i said i would if i ever won the lottery ... stick money in trust funds for my nieces (which they get when they're 30 or something) ... realise i still have a fek of a lot of money ...

buy a proper digital SLR, a modest car (Fiat 500?) ... scratch head ... gaze at Atlantic breakers crashing into the Irish or Scottish coast ... not sure what to do next ... "But he would think of something..."

to get Partridge and Moulding back together

start doing the lottery.

won 9.5 million on the lottery a few years back. The first thing he did was to get his teeth fixed. He reckoned that as he was smiling so much he may as well look half decent when he did so.

I would get staff and pay them to do all that stuff that still needs doing however rich you are. A big house for all my staff and an even bigger one for me, a trip to Australia for The Ashes and investment in Brentford Football Club to keep me busy. The "Dave Amitri End" has a ring to it.

...and then waste the rest.