How small is your world ??

[sewer rat]

It's a small world indeed !
When I first moved north I went to work on renovating a castle and was sent to work with the Head Gardener - turns out we were born on the same day in the same hospital - and that my mother remembered his mother in the labour ward as Tom's mum went into labour about ten minutes before I started creating a fuss.
Anyway - I have a friend who does my box delivery driving for me, who moved up here from Devon. Turns out one of his good mates from down there grew and supplied E tuckers with the JA tubers I bought and also supplied Tamar Organics with the shallot sets I bought !

[wellie]

Eight(ish) years ago, Trousers and I up-sticks from Buckinghamshire, and having sold my house up there, I engineered us a cottage to rent in a place called Ruddle, that hadn't been lived in for six months. After 12 weeks of living in this damp cottage, and me driving Trousers round the twist(!) we found Holly Cottage, and I bought it.

Eight years on, Trousers has just done some fantastic 'clay painting' of a ceiling in the most magnificent ground floor apartment OPPOSITE Ruddle Cottage, and the two of us, a couple of weekends ago, cooked and served a three-course dinner for sixteen people within that apartment, which is where I met Rachael (see General Chat thread on Biodynamics: You Choose)
and Rachael also has connections with a lovely home for disadvantaged peeps, called The Grange, which we were invited to their open day all those years ago, by a special girl called Suki (who is still there), and now Rachael's associate, Tony, is in charge of the garden at The Grange, and has invited me to come look at the garden again after 8 years since the open day that Trousers and I attended.

There's more - but if I told you, I'd have to kill you, so I won't for now?

Sewer Rat. Fantastic thread. And I don't care what anyone says, there's a definite reason why things happen the way they do.
And I wish you every luck and success in the world.
X

[Nicos]

Apart from gardening etc one of my main interests is my family tree.
A couple of years ago I contacted a guy in the States whose father lived in St Helens nr Liverpool - his father's grandmother and my mother's grandmother were cousins.
I then made a contact in Australia who went back 3 more generations and as he was traveling to England suggested we all met up.
The guy in St Helens was telling his best friend about this meeting and then showed him the tree we'd all pulled together.
He went very quiet and then said " but that person on the tree is my grandfather!!"
It turned out that these 2 blokes who are in their 70's and had been best friends since infant school were in fact related!!!! ( so he came to the reunion too...twas a fab day!)

[Capsid]

Have you not heard of 6 degrees of separation?

Six degrees of separation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[tootles]

When I was born (Hong Kong, not that long ago really!) my father had to find someone to cover his duties that night. I have married that man's son.
(small world or just very strange???)

[HayleyB]

Do do do do, do do do do

[BarleySugar]

At my gardening club one of the members said she was visiting Tobago at the end of Nov, she is from Trinidad. I said we'd spent a month there 5 years ago, as one of my friends from uni came from there, and we visited her family. Turned out my uni friend, who is a midwife, delivered my gardening club friend's baby this year!

[di]

I at times get paranoid that it really is VERY small!!When I 1st moved to Ipswich I lived in a house a few doors away from where Andi grew up,when we met I was living at another address~next door to his exgirlfriend~she was still there~he'd moved out a few years previous!!Once we'd been together a while we discovered that a friend I was going to stay with had I gone to college not only lived near Lutterworth(Leics),but actually lived in the very same tiny hamlet that he'd spent several months living in!!
When I worked in Marmaris(Turkey)I bumped into an old friend that was also working there,I then got a job in Istanbul & bumped into friends in a coffee shop!!
More recently our last address,once I got talking to my neighbour it turned out we'd both lived in the same "house-share"house(unfotunately she asked me what I thought of the landlord & I told her the truth!!~turned out he was her dad!!~6 yrs later we're still bestest mates!!)Also lived opposite a boy that I'd grown up with way out in the sticks!!~his daughter & mine are now in the same class!!2 doors away from them is a girl that lived in the neighbouring village!Also I used to work with another of the school mums about 15 yrs ago!

[di]

Almost forgot!!After working in Turkey(I was a drs receptionist~despite my lack of computer skills!!).I'd been back home several months~was enjoying a pint in sunny ole Ipswich & was surprised to hear someone jabbering Turkish to me!!T'was a patient from Marmaris!
.....so when we get on a plane....do we really go somewhere....or does someone just change the scenery???

[Capsid]

Di,
Why would you get paranoid?

[di]

Di,
Why would you get paranoid?

Do I know you???!!

[Dipzy]

I had my Stephen on 11th April 2001, my Jamie was then born on 11th April 2002, this is also the same birthday as our neighbour and a work colleague of mine.

When my children were young I met a very nice lady in the park also with two young children, turns out both our parents live in Reigate, we got on, she told me her address and one day I plucked up the courage to knock on the door and say remember me, we are now best friends. Now our youngest two are in the same class at school.

Jamie is now in Yr2 at school and has become best friends with the new boy in school who turns out lives on our road and I've know his mum for year in a "hello" kind of way and now we've become best of friends. I love it, makes the world go round.

[Capsid]

Sharing a birthday with someone is not such a rare event. For 57 or more people the probability that a pair of them will share the same birthday is 99%.

Birthday problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Don't ask me to explain the maths.

[amandaandherveg]

When I went backpacking a few years back I was on a dive boat off the Queensland Coast, recognised a Scottish accent, said hello and it turned out the guy stayed in street across from me. Went to Disney in LA, chatted to a girl there, turned out she used to go out with my brother. Years ago was on a beach in the South of France and bumped into a couple of guys I went to school with.

[Flummery]

We were on holiday in the Lake District one year when we were sitting in the beer garden of a pub. It wasn't in the village where we were staying - we'd had a long walk and it was about 10 miles away. A young woman with a big black dog walked past us to the pub door. My husband shouted "Piddle!" and the dog (yes, that was his name!) came up with a wag. The girl used to work with him and brought the dog in one day a week so she could take it to obedience classes straight after work. She had moved a year earlier to work at Windscale (I think that was its name then) and it wasn't her regular pub either.

I was mildly amused that he had recognised the dog not the attractive young lady.