Dear Arlene Philips…

Dear Arlene,

Which lottery numbers do you play? My friend George and I put on the same line each week in the hope we might one day win enough to buy a concrete Mammoth for the garden.

Our numbers are: 1, 15, 21, 22, 24 and 38 and we chose them for the following reason:

01 – For purity
15 – The number of hamsters I have owned (female)
21 – The date (in June) when George discovered he could roll his tongue
22 – The age I was when I first tasted Vimto
24 – 6 x 4 (six slices of salami and four pieces of bread, my typical Tuesday lunchtime snack)
38 – Rhymes with ‘dirty plate’

Yours,
–
Herbert Rumbelow