So near, yet so far

I must have had two numbers in the National Lottery Saturday draw now for at least the last three weeks.

It is like getting so far in a sporting competition and then just missing out.
Just as you get nothing for coming second in sport, you pick up nothing for two numbers in the National Lottery.

I have always thought £10 for three numbers is too little, though it must be about time that they looked again at the prize fund.

£50 for three numbers would be more like it, with maybe £5 for two numbers and less for the jackpot.

Meanwhile, I have a lot of respect for those people that take part in the London Marathon.
It is a gruelling 26.2 mile street race around the streets of London.

Amazingly the race started only in 1981, and since then 711,260 people have taken part.

In the early days about 7,000 people took part, but now as many as 46,500 compete in the race.

Moving on I want to see the new film State of Play.

It has a good cast in Helen Mirren, Ben Affleck and Russell Crowe and from what I have read about the plot, it sounds like a good story.