A VIP concert trip to Amsterdam

A weekend in New York plus tickets for the Blue Man Group

A free year's viewing with SKY

Tickets to see Paul Rodgers at the Albert Hall (I was very grateful!)

Tickets to The Brits

Countless cash prizes and other freebies which I cannot remember.

Just before Christmas, she was drawn from a pot of forty thousand people and won the following bundle of goodies:

£200 M&S voucher

Ninja Airfryer

Ninja Slushie Make

Ninja Ice Cream Maker

Nintendo Switch 2 (plus controllers and 2 games)

Lego 'Bowser' kit

Soundbar

Chocolate Hamper

Smeg Coffee Maker

The reaction from people that she tells is always the same:

'Wow - you are so lucky!'

To which her response is almost always:

'I just enter a lot of competitions. Do you?'

Despite her answer, she does seem to be extraordinarily lucky (natch!). I've lost count of the amount of times we've entered raffles or gone to local fetes and she has come away with a prize of some kind.

Are any of you naturally lucky?

I think there's a combination of luck and attitude. You will occasionally get lucky or unlucky. It's how you react to fortune that matters. Gambling addicts are obsessed with winning so they are devastated when they don't win. People say I'm lucky, but I think it's about being happy when you are fortunate and not unhappy when things don't go your way.

Anyway, I recently won 2 tickets to a Cleveland Browns game. In order to be eligible I had to have perfect attendance. It's part of their campaign to reduce school absenteeism. So that was luck, but also a result of my actions.

The best I've seen is when my wife won $2500 of free furniture from a furniture store that was opening up.