A man who promised to buy his son a toy shop if he won the Lottery had to backtrack when he scooped more than £1 million.
Mark Myatt and wife Trina, from Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, instead took sons Alexander, eight, and Oliver, three, toy shopping.
Mr Myatt, 39, a builder, said: "I had always promised my eldest son that I would buy him a toy shop of his own if we ever won the Lottery.
"I did have to do a bit of backtracking this weekend although he has still done very well. He now has the Lego Star Wars Death Star set worth £300. Oliver chose a huge Thomas the Tank Engine train set - you can't move for toys in our house at the moment."
The couple matched six numbers in the New Year's Eve draw to win a £1,014,308 share of the jackpot.
Mrs Myatt, 38, a financial controller, said they were at a friend's house playing Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? when the draw took place but had failed to win the jackpot in the game.
The couple, who play the lottery by monthly subscription, only realised they had won a cash prize on New Year's Day when they went to a family get-together and asked if anyone knew the winning numbers.
Mrs Myatt said she knew they had matched four or five and might win enough for a family holiday to Euro Disney.
"I did wonder whether we might have matched a sixth number but really wasn't sure so I drove back home to double-check. When I saw we had all six numbers I was just gobsmacked."
She chose the numbers several years ago and could not remember if the sixth number - her age at the time - had been 32 or 33. I realised we had the sixth number and was shocked to say the least."
