Dedicated to YuchaeMoon

Odds, Evens and Strange Coincidences

My friend on here YuchaeMoon, posted today that she and her son were both born on Thanksgiving Day. This reminded me of some coincidences I have come across.

I was born on 26th July and my son was born on 26th February and my daughter on 26th June. Both babies were born early, so that makes the coincidence even more remarkable. I had been given a date of 3rd March for my son and my daughter was eleven days early, her skin still covered in white 'Vernix' (which I had never heard about before). It is Mother Nature's own moisturiser to protect a baby's skin in the womb. Isn't that incredible?

My husband and I have always lived in houses or apartments which have an even number, this also applied when we were small and hadn't even met. That does not apply now as we live in Flat no. 2. My house numbers were 9, 7, 11, 27, and 3.

I have always lived in a house or apartment which has a lamp post right outside.  Here it is not quite outside by about eight feet away. But close enough.  Actually, my husband by a strange coincidence, has also lived somewhere with a lamp post outside of the house!  Hard to believe isn't it?

I started out living in a house by the railway track and have ended up living in an apartment right by the same railway track. But this is now a cycle track and is further out in the suburbs. My childhood home was in the city. The railway track by my child hood home was above us, here it is 30/40 feet below so we never see anyone, but we can hear them talking, occasionally, as they cycle along as it has created an echo.

I met someone recently who had once had a holiday home in Bulgaria with his wife. There they met a couple of men who became their friends very quickly, as they all seemed to have the same ideas about life. He and the two of them all had birthdays falling in the same month, one day after the other.  And their ages were 56, 57 and 58.  At one point they had parties each day until my friend felt it was a bit 'over the top' so later, they chose one day to party!

Oh, and before I forget, my friend Annette was telling me about her cousin who lived in a particular place. It was the same place as my cousin lived. So I asked a few questions and it transpires my cousin Neil is married to her cousin, Carole. We were dumbfounded!

Both my mother and mother-in-law (both now passed on) were one of four sisters.  They were each the second daughter.  Both their mothers were called Daisy and both of their fathers were heavy drinkers.  My mother-in-law's father was an alcoholic and my mother's father was a drunk.  He only drank when out of work, when in work he worked really hard.  

February 2022