It never ceases to surprise me at just how generous bingo playing mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, siblings and friends can be. The sharing stories go on and on and never seem to stop.

Just such as this recent winner of the National Bingo. The fifty-seven year old Grandmother plays a regular fortnightly game of bingo with her mother at the Gala Bingo Club in Surrey Quay Leisure Park, Redriff Road. This time they were in luck, during the Afternoon delight game, the lucky winner struck it rich winning £17 500. She has an agreement with her mum that if either one of them wins, they will share the prize money.

The winner said that she didn’t believe it at first and was overcome with nerves that made her fee quite shaky. The admin assistant, who lives in Shooters Hill, has been playing bingo at the Gala for six years as the club is close to where her mother lives. The grandmother of one; has two sons and intends to use her share of the winnings to treat her sons and have her bathroom newly fitted out. She claims that she is still really shocked over the win and won’t quite believe it until she has the cheque in her hands.