"We've not won £25, we've won £2 million!" Skipton couple’s lotto win
Peter Occardi stared at the numbers on his phone and slowly realised that it was a little bit more than the £25, or even £2,000, he had initially thought. Wife Claire asked what was wrong as the colour drained from his face and Peter declared "We've not won £25, we've won £2 million!"
The couple from Skipton didn't stop to celebrate, preferring to carry on with their normal work day, before returning home for a celebratory meal of jacket potatoes with cheese!
The couple now intend to set up their own businesses and qualified pilot Peter may even splash out on a his own personal plane.
Design engineer, Peter realised they had won when he checked his emails first thing in the morning. "I had a message from The National Lottery asking me to check my account. We'd had a similar email last week and we had won £25, so initially I thought it would be another of the same."
Peter soon realised that his eyes were playing tricks on him. "On first glance, at my phone, I thought we’d won just over £2,000, but I looked again and noticed there were too many digits. 'What's wrong?' Claire asked, as all of the colour drained from my face. I handed her the phone and still shaking, said, 'We've not won £25, we've won £2 million!
Peter's first phone call was to The National Lottery line to confirm the win but not until he had checked, and double checked the details. He said, "As soon as they confirmed that we had in fact won £2.2M Claire and I just sat there in disbelief. It was still pretty early at this point, but it felt like we had been awake for hours!"
Cheesy Potatoes
Still in a state of shock, the father of one, went to work, as if nothing had happened keeping the good news to himself. Marketing consultant, Claire said, "We still didn't believe it, so we carried on as normal, Peter went to work and I carried on working at home. We didn’t even have an exciting tea, I made us jacket potatoes and cheese. The only person we told was my mum, I showed her the email and she almost fainted."
The couple intend to use the win to look after their family and also to help set them up in business. Peter said, "We're both quite driven individuals and will always want to work in some capacity. Claire really wants to go in to property and business coaching and I've always wanted to set up my own manufacturing business, and now I can. Our win also means that we don't have to worry about providing for our son, we can provide him with the best possible upbringing and can look at investing in a bigger house with a garden for him to enjoy as he grows up."
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