2007 Coincidences ........................................


1. Birthdays. Vivian's I learned to remember, because you DON'T forget your maiden's birthday.
It came as a considerable surprise to realise that Martin's Kim has her birthday on exactly the same day. Just a strange coincidence of course.
Then we discovered that Mitch's then new hearthrob, had the same birthday too!
All three Hutton adult males had new ladies, all with the same birthday. Just too much of a coincidence surely. I've yet to check on the birthday of my father's second wife.

2. When I lived in the apartment in Park Victoria we had a clear view, from the living room, of The Infirmary. High on its wall facing us from a block away was a bronze statue of Jesus. When the hospital closed men came with a huge crane and took the statue down.
A year or so later I was living on Flying Cloud Drive in Dartmouth. Nearby is a Catholic church. In due course Jesus turned up and lay on his back in front of that church. Then men came and with concrete and girders and erected a support for the aforementioned statue.
Now, from our living room, we have a clear view of Himself. Is he, I wonder, keeping an eye on me?

3. Vivian's adopted daughter Amanda had, unbeknown to Vivian, had been contacted by her birth mother. In the course of events meetings with all parties was arranged. In all of Dartmouth and Halifax and all their environs where do the Browns, Amanda's birth-parents live? Next door to Martin and Kim.

4. I never met my father. I was nearing forty before I found out anything at all about him. When I was still shy of my eighteenth birthday I'd elected to become an aircraft mechanic in the Royal Air Force. In the early 1970s I discovered he'd been an aircraft mechanic in the Royal Air Force during the second world war.