OK. (See my FT/Colin Wilson synch-up, above, please.) I find these random but close-in-time references/synchronitites higher on the scale of coincidnece because they actually involve Fortean Times... the place where we virtually meet to discuss this very topic and strange occurances. I acknowledge the forum will attract these synchrocnistic events re-telling, but does being on the Forum also cause the events? (I again go back to "If you stare into the Abyss, it stares back.")Another minor but weird one.
Herself asked me about the name of a Canadian dessert I'd had a crack at making some time ago, with some success, as one of her friends wanted to know.
I had to do a bit of thinking but it came to me in the end - Nanaimo Bar, a calorie-laden confection of biscuit, cream and chocolate. I then picked up a random FT from the pile as I was trying to track down a reference for something else entirely. (FT418, in fact, May 2022 and last month's).
I opened it at random.
The sidebar news cutting on Page Nine, where my eyes came to rest, was about strange goings-on in Nanaimo, Canada.....
S'pose you've gotta Bee thankful for strange coincidences!The strangest coincidence that I ever experienced happened back in 2001. I had just moved into a new flat , was still settling in, when I suddenly and without warning , lost my job. I was devastated, had no savings and was completely reliant upon my wages to keep afloat. I could not even afford to pay the next months rent.
On a chilly November day, huddled under a blanket on the sofa , because i didn't dare to put the heating on , I worried about how I would survive .
All of a sudden, I heard a buzzing sound. I looked up , to see half a dozen, what looked to be wasps , had flown in the window and were buzzing around the room. I opened the window as wide as I could, so they could find their way out and as I got closer to them, I saw that they were not wasps at all , but honey bees . They flew around the room for a while, all following each other in a line, before eventually the one in front discovered the open window and the others followed him out.
I thought it was odd that the bees were out in November and later , had a conversation with a bee keeper who confirmed that it is highly unusual for bees to be active at that time of year.
Later, that afternoon, I heard the letterbox rattle and found that a local free newspaper that was around at the time, had been pushed through the door. I turned to the page where job ads were sometimes placed , not really expecting to find anything suitable for me, to find that actually, there was a job ad that looked interesting. I called the number and spoke to the manageress, who arranged an interview for me, withy the boss, the following day. (she later told me that she somehow knew, as soon as she spoke to me, that i'd get the job)
The boss did , indeed offer me the job and my financial problems were over. The name of the company was Honey Bee Publications !
If that is not strange enough , later , on the same evening The job was offered to me, the phone rang. It was the boss of a company a friend of mine worked for. She had put my name forward as the perfect person for a job with this company.
After a short telephone interview , he offered me some part time work that I was able to fit in around the other job i'd taken. His name was Mr Ashbee!
That's quite a coincidence, Catseye. But shame it isn't 1145. Unless... you weren't watching it at a quarter to midday, by any chance?I saw on Reddit that 'Maid Marion and her Merry Men' was on YouTube. So I decided to watch it but hadn't got around to it until yesterday. Decided to start at the beginning, so put on the first episode - where The Sherriff of Nottingham is berating a character for selling 'out of date' rats.
'What's the sell-by date on that rat?'
'Sixteenth of July, 1145'
'And what's the date today?'
'Seventeeth of July...'
And it was!
Sadly no. It was more like 1920.That's quite a coincidence, Catseye. But shame it isn't 1145. Unless... you weren't watching it at a quarter to midday, by any chance?
That reminds me of one I forgot.Weird moment of synchronicity. Went to a particular supermarket. As I approached there was an old man leaning over to help a pigeon lying on its back on the pavement. Dont know what happened to it. He turned it over and tried to encourage it to fly off. Assume it couldn't. I carried on into the shop, was in there about 7 or 8 minutes, left, carried on my journey. When I came to the main intersection I saw a large lorry of sorts coming along. I say lorry. It said on the side what it was ...."Pigeon transport".
I've never heard of such a thing, but it was a kind of horsebox for pigeons.
Now were the two things obviously connected? It's possible. But I can't see how. The man is unlikely to have had the number ( even if it was tagged) of your neighbourhood pigeon rescuers, and even less likely that he called them and they got to the scene in that short time.
I suppose the pigeon could have escaped from the vehicle. But that also seems improbable as it was by definition 10 minutes driving time from the approaching lorry. If they were following it how would they know where to go?
So it just seems a bizarre coincidence.
Where the Crawdads Sing.Another coincidence yesterday! I think this comes under the term ‘frequency illusion.’
I was reading a review of the film ‘Where The Crawdads Fly’, and they mention that the main character is a ‘manic pixie dream girl’, with a link to the meaning.
Then later that day, The Guardian had an interview with Zooey Deschanel with ‘manic pixie dream girl’ in the title!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Pixie_Dream_Girl
Oh, they were quiet that day!Where the Crawdads Sing.
Sorry - as you were...
"Spoiler" will duly follow, no doubt!I was browsing The Online Books page before. My wife was watching the news.
Just as the news started talking about women's football at Wembley tommorow I read the title of a book listed called England Or Germany.?