its a small world
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i went to the Bonhams auction in Harrogate the other day and bought a couple of boxes of 'motor sport' magazines, all jumbled up and a bit tatty, but perfect winter reading!
most are tied up in string bundles, but there was about ten loose ones, so i started to read through those first.
the earliest in this pile was August 1955, and the small ads are in no particular order, so you have to look at every one to spot any thing of interest.
well, i found a great advert, placed by my grandfather for a 1934 Riley monarco that he had to sell because he had bought another Riley - my dad remembers that an accountant bought it and ran it for a few years before scrapping it and buying a brand new Austin A40.
and the Riley he replaced it with?
thats still going strong in our ownership today!
most are tied up in string bundles, but there was about ten loose ones, so i started to read through those first.
the earliest in this pile was August 1955, and the small ads are in no particular order, so you have to look at every one to spot any thing of interest.
well, i found a great advert, placed by my grandfather for a 1934 Riley monarco that he had to sell because he had bought another Riley - my dad remembers that an accountant bought it and ran it for a few years before scrapping it and buying a brand new Austin A40.
and the Riley he replaced it with?
thats still going strong in our ownership today!
Funny how this topic should pop up.
SWMBO and I have many co-incidences in our lives and and I don't just mean the "gosh you like chocolate éclairs as well?" ones!
No, I'm talking about the "John McEnroe" ones.
We were born in the next town to each other, same religion, went to the same school name, married each others namesake, named our lads the same etc etc etc Oh and forgot to say there's ten years difference between us and I grew up 200 miles away but we both moved down 'sarf and bumped into one another in a quiet Suffolk town.
We went to a concert in Ipswich last night and SWMBO starts talking to the couple sitting in the next seat; turns out they're from her home town in Lancashire. Ok- so that nice, but no great deal just interesting, but they moved from there to my former home town barely 1/2 mile from where I was living and lived there at the same time that I did before moving, when I did- across to Ipswich....
I studied statistics at Uni' and must confess to being lost in the Chi Squared Test etc but this sort of thing really intrigues me. I can appreciate correlation and Std Deviations but at some point I do find myself thinking WTF!.. no way! lol!
p.s Just realised how I opened up my answer
SWMBO and I have many co-incidences in our lives and and I don't just mean the "gosh you like chocolate éclairs as well?" ones!
No, I'm talking about the "John McEnroe" ones.We were born in the next town to each other, same religion, went to the same school name, married each others namesake, named our lads the same etc etc etc Oh and forgot to say there's ten years difference between us and I grew up 200 miles away but we both moved down 'sarf and bumped into one another in a quiet Suffolk town.
We went to a concert in Ipswich last night and SWMBO starts talking to the couple sitting in the next seat; turns out they're from her home town in Lancashire. Ok- so that nice, but no great deal just interesting, but they moved from there to my former home town barely 1/2 mile from where I was living and lived there at the same time that I did before moving, when I did- across to Ipswich....
I studied statistics at Uni' and must confess to being lost in the Chi Squared Test etc but this sort of thing really intrigues me. I can appreciate correlation and Std Deviations but at some point I do find myself thinking WTF!.. no way! lol!
p.s Just realised how I opened up my answer
When I was working in London about 10 years ago I got talking to one of my colleagues and it turned out we were born in the same small Lincolnshire town. Due to there only being one cottage hospital there at the time we would have ben born not only in the same building but (and this is where it got a little odd) there was only one maternity room back then. So, we were born in the same bed!
At the NEC classic show last week one of our members came on to the club stand and we found that his Mrs & I went to the same school in Leeds in the late 60s. They live in Cheltenham, I live in Brighton.
She was the year below me, it would have been too much of a coincidence if we'd known each other then, but we both have a copy of the long school photo and reckon we were not far apart on that.
She was the year below me, it would have been too much of a coincidence if we'd known each other then, but we both have a copy of the long school photo and reckon we were not far apart on that.
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