what would you do if you won a substancial sum on the lottery or euro millions?

[Berties]

Ride past a 7.5 million hose that's up for sale
http://propertyporner.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/golden-hill-romsey.html
I've got a good full time window cleaner lined up ,turn the water features into bike ramps
And a couple of clay traps to tell the neighbours I've arrived,
All I need now is to win the dosh and i will order the removal van

 

[Arch]

I'd go into work, hand in my notice, then go to the bike shop and say "I want one of those. With this, this, this and this on it. None of those on it, and two of those, with some spare ones of those.

Trouble is, "this, this, this and this" are a pumpkin, a capybara, a pot of Nivea and a bag of compost. It'll have none of 'those' which are wheels, two of 'those' which are zips, and some spare saddles.

Still, each to their own, it's your money...

 

[palinurus]

I'd get a new bike. I'd also quit work. Then i'd realize that with no work I'd have nowhere to ride to each day.

 

[subaqua]

beer, fast women , faster bikes, drugs. and the rest I would probably just fritter away

in all reality. stay put till kids have finished secondary education, then move back to N Wales to a little cottage in the Rsole of nowhere just to prove i don't need a 4x4 or car in the country.

i would at this junction in time tell work where they could poke it too. 5 years ago i wouldn't but i am beginning to really hate most parts of my job. one part i love- the technical advice/engineering side. construction side . I hate.

 

[Night Train]

Pay off sister's family mortgage, and NT's. Give up the job, help get NT's house straight, then park the rest (assuming we're talking enough to have a 'rest') somewhere to provide a little income while NT and I try and live off making cool stuff.

Cool!

That will save me spending all my winnings on the frivolous stuff.

Seriously though, I wouldn't tell anyone.

 

[mattobrien]

Move house and probably buy another house in the highlands as I love it there. Buy a new bike, maybe a new motor for Mrs O. Education for the little ones.

Spend it having fun and enjoying myself.

 

[oldfatfool]

Open up a greyhound sanctuary/ boarding kennel. Each hound would have its own sofa in a heated room with piped music and access to a paddock. I would build a state of the art vetinary clinic in the grounds and invite a vet to run the place for their own profit so long as the hounds where treated gratis.

In the meantime I would commute between here and a large chalet on the Swiss/ French border in a selection of exotic supercars depending on the weather.

 

[Falwheeler]

Told my wife, if we had a big win she could go part time

 

[TheDoctor]

Visit my mate in NZ rather more often.
Get a recumbent trike.
Help some people out.
Travel. A lot.

 

[biggs682]

we would buy a bungalow with a min of 4 bedrooms with a double garage in a local village to present location .

and a gaurds red 911 for rainy days

 

[BigonaBianchi]

invest in some top class memories

 

[Brandane]

Put passport in pocket, head to nearest Aston Martin dealership. Buy a DB9 and head for Dover. Stick 2 fingers up to the UK and the Chancellor as I sailed off to the continent, never to return. Buy a place in rural France near to good cycling country and then assemble a collection of bikes and motorbikes. Employ a Thai housekeeper and travel the world.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Same as oldfatfool. A sanctuary with large, safe enclosed grounds for them to free range Give my 'hounds and as many others as possible the best life possible, I'd take on the ones that aren't going to get homes because they're injured or the wrong colour or whatever. I'd also significantly fund the Galgo support networks trying to change the institutional barbarism of Spain.
For me & mine, I'd spend a couple of years sailing round the world giving my kids an education they'll never forget.

 

[StuAff]

corner the world market in bananas. Buy every banana in the world, and every banana palm. Make people beg me for my bananas and then give them away to CTC members. Restart the Raleigh-Banana cycling team. Erect huge monuments to the banana and the banana slug, which has, pound for pound the biggest penis in creation. Rename Rome Banana City. Ban cheese.

Ban cheese? You're a monster!

 

[marinyork]

Buy a cave.