What would you do with ££££££s?

[gregorach]

I've always kinda fancied a secret base in an extinct volcano, an army of mooks, and a collection of doomsday devices...

[boboff]

And a white fluffy Pussy to Stroke Dunc?

[oldjerry]

...........Ooooooooooooooooooooh................Matron.

[southeast-isher]

a full time carer for my Nan, for starters.

[Thomzo]

I'd do the same as Sarah, only not just in Manchester. My aim would be to convert old, unused buildings into housing so that there'd be less call for developers to concrete over all the green spaces in the country. It wouldn't just be for the not-so-well-off, though, they'd be mixed developments so that those who could afford it would subsidise those would couldn't. That way, the scheme would be self financing and could be rolled out across the country.

Only trouble is, I don't do the lottery, so it'll always be a dream.

Oh, and I'd keep a few £'s back to pay off my mortgage, I'm not a complete angel.

Zoe

[Puddleduck]

Is it wrong that I've actually worked out I would need half a million to make my dreams come true? Pay off the mortgage, get solar panels fitted, have wood stoves fitted and the kitchen extended to fit an aga, and a VW camper in the drive. Possibly a harley for hubby. Factor in some chickens and an allotment and I'm set.

Of course my chances of winning the lottery would be greatly increased if I ever put the sod on.....

[The Riff-Raff Element]

Well, I don't see anything wrong myself with working out the "cost" side of the cost / value equation...

[Stonehead]

Half a dozen shirts (like these), a new mattress and a couple of tons of lime mortar to repoint all the buildings. Oh, and new tyres for the Land Rover. That would do me.

[growingthings]

Ah Stoney,

If the spare cash ever did make an appearance, let me know and i'll pop to their shop for you when I go and visit my aunty, they're not far from me at all.

Oh, and if I had the cash, I'd buy the neighbours houses as we are one of three tiny terraces and the field out the back, and I'd love to run an art centre like the one that I manage now for learning disabled adults.

I don't think that would cost too much, so the rest of it can go to housing redevelopment etc, as has been mentioned before, although I'd be temped to have an off shoot, which prevents people from selling off their gardens and building about three crappy little houses all on top of each other, which is something that is all too common here! ( and a bug bear of mine as you can probably tell! )

Lorna x

[MKG]

I've thought for ages about this one (not for the first time, I may add). But every other time I've done it, I've found something I would really want. It turns out that, this time, I've got everything I would really want. Yes, I'd buy the ultimate in computers - but I've already got one that does OK. I'd like to say "more land" - but I couldn't manage more. I'd like to say "the neighbour's house" but that would entail more land. Maybe a vineyard in France - but then I do alright with the elderberries and I'd only worry about it.

When someone develops the everlasting dog, I'll go for one of those.

Apart from that, though, I appear to be ... ermmm ... happy as I am. I don't think I'd want to change that.

Mike

[Odsox]

If I were a good deal younger, I would have a huge heated greenhouse or even several, along the lines of Kew or Eden Project. I've always lusted after those, but even if I won (which would be a miracle as I don't do the lottery) I don't have any room for one, and I sure ain't moving so it's all rather academical.

[Lawrence]

After paying off some debts and putting down a deposit on a house with a garden for myself (currently renting a place with a tiny yard) I would spend it doing up old buildings around Greater Manchester.

There are some brilliant buildings around here I bet looked amazing in their hay day, which have got abandoned/run down...it seems like such a waste!
I would probably convert them into youth clubs and affordable housing for families because I'm sick of seeing hundreds of new 1 and 2 bedroom flats being built, leaving not-so-well-off families living in crampped conditions.

I sort of agree with this post, I would definately buy up the historic buildings to preserve them, and I would buy as many family homes as I could to prevent them from being converted into "affordable" flats.
I would then sell them on with NO profit with a covenant to prevent the change of use, and therefore preserve the area.

[trinder]

Mike with his everlasting dog.
Ah, I have so many, that have taught me so much, loved me in their own way and I have loved them in return. But which dog to chose- because they are dead and will never know the joy that they ...taught me - at that time- in my life. How can I possible choose.
The one that springs to mind is the champion , so many awards, so many friends and so many who knew him for who he was. At a competition no one told him it was different but he knew. He performed like a perfect robot- responding to every whistle - attentive " biddable".
Out on a real driven shoot he was his own man- I "covered" for him blowing whistles - start- top- go left - go right ( but never the recall) that was his day ... he met me at the end of every drive, and started every new drive with me-- but the in between was his day. He was the one in a lifetime dog that absolutely gave me understanding that some dogs just do.
But maybe that was his journey- to show me just what a canine friend can be and because of him I have loved all who followed for who they were not compared to him- because no one could.

Yes Mike, the everlasting dog but which one?