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In the months of recent past, i've been experiencing somthing of a lucky streak. It started off with the odd CD here, another odd CD here, and another odd CD here in fact they are all rather odd. Then came the Manchester United wash bag full of, well you probably guessed, Manchester United grooming products. Then there was that tenner on the lottery - and as most of you know I don't normally play the lottery either. So this is all rather nice.

In jest I said to a friend of mine on a recent visit to Cornwall,

'you know what I'm owed another, that's only 5 so far, these things come in 3's, i'm due something else'

and thought nothing more of it. Then a week ago, while at work, I get a call telling me that I had one a competition i'd entered in a magazine before Christmas. Naturally I was gobsmacked when they told me it was a cocktail party for me and 10 friends. Where am I gonna find those kind of numbers? Well everyone's your friend at £100 a head. Surely you can't drink that much in a night?