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Post by dreampolice on Oct 2, 2023 14:59:27 GMT
On a train travelling in either Yugoslavia or Greece (we were travelling between the 2 countries) when I was 18. Got chatting to another group of backpackers. One of the lads in the same train compartment recognised me and my mate. He was at our school until he was 13 when he left to go to another part of the country. Same trip, chatting to a Greek girl on a bus and she asked where we lived. Turns out she had a pen friend who lived next door to where he lived until a few years prior. Stood in a square in Venice. Bumped into a guy who we knew from the pub back in UK. On the overnight ferry from Greece to Italy (where we had to sleep on the deck) a lad stepped over us and he knew my mate. On a motorway and my music was on random. As I passed a lorry the song The Messerschmitt Twins by OMD started playing. The lorry I was passing was a company called "Messerschmitt" and it was written on the lorries curtains. In our village lives Peter Hook the ex bassist from New Order. Again music on random and a New Order song started playing at the exact time I drove passed him out walking his dog. I mentioned in the last paragraph about New Order. Well bugger me, it has just happened again. Playing another recommended for me playlist by Amazon and the song Regret, by New Oder started playing. Who would step off the pavement out walking his dog as the song started plsyin? Yep, Hooky again! |
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Post by spinno on Oct 2, 2023 15:02:49 GMT
Are you stalking him or what?
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Post by dreampolice on Oct 2, 2023 15:08:52 GMT
Are you stalking him or what? Lol. |
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Post by gray1720 on Oct 2, 2023 16:26:02 GMT
Does he still dress like a U-boat captain?
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Post by dreampolice on Oct 2, 2023 16:46:19 GMT
I’ll remember to take a photo next time but no, he was wearing normal outdoors wet weather clothing!
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Post by gray1720 on Oct 28, 2023 18:28:25 GMT
So... I bought an Olympus XA a few weeks ago on Oxford tat market (got the film back - will post a few). There's an addess sticker in the back for two people named Leopardi in Newbury. I didn't think anything of it but SWMBO remembered having Leopardi's ice cream as a kid, bought in big tubs. Well, we've still got two of the tubs, which I keep my poridge oats in, and guess what? Uncle Google tells me that the Leopardi's were the directors of the ice cream company!  Coincidence! by gray1720, on Flickr |
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Post by gray1720 on Oct 29, 2023 8:04:17 GMT
I can now add to that that SWMBOs Mum actually spoke to Mrs Leopardi! She phoned the company to enquire what was in their ice cream (her son was one of the kids that azo dyes made uncontrollable, so she had to be forensic about what they ate), and got Mrs L on the other end of the phone. Apparently she was very Italian mama about anyone doubting the quality of her ice cream.
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Post by martinl on Mar 20, 2024 23:32:15 GMT
Interesting one unfolded this afternoon, beginning with my weekly big shop. Done, as always, at the huge Sainsbury's near me, close by the busy Crooked Billet junction on the North Circular Road. The Walthamstow-Chingford border: across the road, in fact, from the old Walthamstow Stadium dog racing track. The stadium closed well over ten years ago, although the distinctive art deco neon-lit frontage has been preserved. Directly opposite that was a large open area used as a car park for the stadium, on which was built a big car showroom, or rather two car showrooms in one building - one for Peugeot, one for Citroen.
When this place opened it had a name pretty much along Smith and Jones lines, but as my bus passed today I noticed its new title: Stellantis & You. Two questions sprang to mind, namely who TF is Stellantis and what TF has he/she/it got to do with me? I went about my shopping, got the bus home and switched on the radio. Lo and behold, a discussion was underway about Brexit, specifically on criticism of Brexit by business and in particular by Stellantis. At which point I Googled and discovered them to be the large Dutch automotive manufacturer behind Peugeot, Citroen and plenty more besides.
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Post by Kath on Mar 21, 2024 10:36:53 GMT
I've been reminded of another coincidence. When I was little, I remember being allowed to read a set of books that my granny had kept from when my mum and her sisters were small - stories about a little girl called Ameliaranne by Constance Howard. I asked an aunt if she knew what happened to them but she wasn't sure. I really wanted one particular story for a project I was doing and decided to buy a copy of it from an ebay seller down in Surrey. When it arrived, it had a little sticker on the inside cover saying 'Macneur & Bryden - Bookshop - Helensburgh'! (Not long after that my aunt found the books and sent them up to me as well, so I now have two copies of Ameliaranne and the Green Umbrella and can't bear to part with either!) ETA - Macneur & Bryden now only exists as a ghost sign in town, on the front wall of a block of tenement flats that I photographed recently for the current owner, an Airbnb host.  macneur-and-brydon by Kath Polley, on Flickr |
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