It's a numbers game

As Christmas approaches and the bank balance recedes and almost combusts in despair, my heart leaps to read about the lovely Irish nun, Sister Kathleen Murphy.

Sister Murphy was the 100 millionth passenger to fly Ryanair (freebie flights all over Europe), and as such she scored a $176,000 cash prize. Rather than whoop it up on Ibiza or snorkle on the Great Barrier Reef, the good nun donated her winnings to her convent to aid its charity work.

Now somehow that story does more for me than the Dickens "Christmas Carol" and yet, at the same time, makes me wonder what I would do with the $32 million Powerball jackpot that's coming up....something tells me that, if I win, my inner Catholic will find itself taking a vow of silence!