Most phones need screaming down!
Posted on 11/15/2014 3:36:17 AM PST by Fenhalls555
The first person Catherine and Gareth Bull told about their £40.6 million lottery win in January 2012 was their sons’ headmistress. ‘We didn’t know at that point if we wanted to go public but from that first minute the boys were our priority,’ Catherine says. ‘We knew they would want everything to be the same. So we went to see her to talk it through first.’
The Bulls are, as they quite cheerfully admit, two of the most boring multimillionaires you could ever meet. Since the headmistress assured them that Joel and Declan – then aged 10 and eight – would be treated the same as other children they have remained committed to keeping everything as ‘normal as possible’.
The weekend they won they took Joel and Declan (who didn’t yet know) to their separate football games, nipping off down the other end of the pitch to ring each other and scream down the phone. They had a sleepover planned that night for Declan’s birthday, and on the Monday morning they went into school to tell the headmistress.
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All I want is nice house with some decent amenities in it.
The new English teacher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxB1gB6K-2A
Man!!! That is tough. When you can only understand one or two words in a sentence, it is hard. Kinda like listening to the Spanish speakers at the mall. I would think they could at least provide sub-titles.
They need to learn to speak ‘Murrican.
Your family’s SAFETY AND SECURITY are the most important reason to SHUT UP about new found wealth.
Your family will forever be the target of every criminal and fraud out there.
It’s common knowledge in the annuities industry that, properly invested, you can spend four percent of a large sum annually, and still grow the principle as a hedge against inflation. This would work out to spending about $3 million per year, without, “spending a penny”. I could live with that!
Yep. Keep a low profile and don’t spend like a drunken sailor
I’ve always said that if I were to win (impossible since I don’t play), I’d go to work for at least six months after winning and change my daily routine/shopping habits as little as possible. I think the entertainment value of comments from low work ethic nut bars would be priceless. Also, it would give me time to think about what I should really do with the money (those annuities?).
I think they also pay the advertised prize as a lump sum rather than spread over many years (or a lower immediate payout) like in US lotteries.
Logic is a wonderful thing.
That’s the way to go.
Where does one find advisors that can set up such a situation?
Fidelity was chosen for me, by my company. It's worked out fine for me. I would avoid "my cousin's great financial advisor". some are great, some aren't.
wait, the revenuers didn’t find a way to worm into it?
Sign of the apocalypse?
The first person is Paul O’Grady, a comedian/presenter who has a strong ‘scouse’ (Liverpool) accent. The next clip has David Tennant (whose Scottish accent I assume you understood as he speaks clearly) and comedienne Catherine Tate, whose schoolgirl character speaks in an urban London accent, known as “jafakin’”, a fake patois where white kids try to sound urban black American, with a bit of Jamaican thrown in. The comedy character ‘AliG’ satirised this.
DO remember we Limeys and Irish equally struggle with many American accents, some we understand but just don’t like, like the Boston/NE accent.
Going down the other end of the field of play to phone each other and scream down the phone.
Nipping off also means simply to make a physical movement to another place.
ie ‘I am nipping down to the shops’ OR ‘I am nipping down to the bottom of the garden’.
Trannies.
If they do, then perhaps they can teach you.
Thanks
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