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Coincidences

I love 'ghost' advertising on old buildings that show their former use. Last month I took a picture of the Home & Colonial store In Berkhamsted that was one of the most successful retail outlets in the 1920s (now a collection of antique specialists under one roof). This morning I was looking at Castle Drogo on line, the last castle built in England (Devon, finished 1930). Drogo was commisioned by Julius Drewe, the founder of Home & Colonial. Coincidence that is.

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I recently looked up Werner Haas, a German pianist. I was aware that he had died quite young in a car accident.

Only the brief online biography I read stated that it was a motorcycle accident. I had the wrong Werner Haas.

Maybe it's a common name in Germany but the motorcyclist had perished just twenty years before. :oops:
 
While riding home from litter-picking duties the other day I was trying to come up with Only Connect-style questions and was working on the first names in pairings of songwriters, starting with Chinn and going through Lennon, Goffin, Rodgers, Andersson, Bacharach etc, but specifically it was Chinn I started with. (Though I reckon the second partners' names would work better.)

I get home and the first song I hear – my wife's listening to Alexa – is the Sweet's Wig Wam Bam (not a commonly heard song in 2020!) and yes, it's by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman.
 
Last week a podcast was recommended on'ere which mentions the 1935 fillum The Ghost Goes West. Fun, I thought, I saw that as a kid and hadn't heard of it again until now! A day or two later it was mentioned in a R4 programme.

I'll have to hunt it down and watch it now.
 
I'm not sure whether this counts as coincidence but here's the bulk carrier Sunny Eternity off Dover this morning delivering the sun.
 

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Last week a podcast was recommended on'ere which mentions the 1935 fillum The Ghost Goes West. Fun, I thought, I saw that as a kid and hadn't heard of it again until now! A day or two later it was mentioned in a R4 programme.

I'll have to hunt it down and watch it now.
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Here I quote a blog comment:

In a side note. Just rewatched Travelers on Netflix last week and one of the story arcs is that in the future climate change is so bad that in an attempt to fight it, they send people back in time with a virus to cull some of the population. Just food for thought.
 
I love 'ghost' advertising on old buildings that show their former use. Last month I took a picture of the Home & Colonial store In Berkhamsted that was one of the most successful retail outlets in the 1920s (now a collection of antique specialists under one roof). This morning I was looking at Castle Drogo on line, the last castle built in England (Devon, finished 1930). Drogo was commisioned by Julius Drewe, the founder of Home & Colonial. Coincidence that is.

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This isn't quite ghost advertising but nearly. This slightly blurred photo is on the promenade in Morecambe:

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My eldest rang today and we were both saying that nothing interesting had been happening due to lockdown.
About 5 minutes after we hung up there was a loud screech of brakes and middle daughter and I looked out to see a black 4 wheel drive car turn around in the court.
As we looked it wobbled to the left and smashed into this expensive car parked outside one of the houses.
We expected them to stop but they just wobbled to the right and drove off.
The side back was smashed in and bits were on the road but noone came out to look, so presumably the owner wasn't home.
The police are never interested if you ring and I didn't catch the number plate although I think the car belonged to the ministry house.
You are not allowed to go into anyone's house at the moment so we felt there was nothing we could do.
Just thought it was odd that we had just said there was nothing interesting happening.
 
Our pub internet juke box plays a random tune after its turned on , saturday night it picked "lone ranger " by Quntum jump , also the first tune I picked , as theres no speaker were the juke box is , I could here a song start playing in the bar , but not clearly enough to recognise it ,
 
The police are never interested if you ring and I didn't catch the number plate although I think the car belonged to the ministry house.

Once when working a night shift I heard a car crash. By the time I was outside to look the car was reversing noisily off the pole and sign it had demolished, leaving scraped-off red paint and a bit of wreckage behind.
The police came and asked if I had the number. I handed over the actual numberplate.
 
Here's a good'un.

A nephew of the ex died in infancy and is buried with the ex's maternal grandparents.

I know where the grave is but I don't visit.
However, I was recently thinking about little Daniel for some reason and had the urge to take flowers.

Today I took the flowers and noticed that the Granndad died on this date, 70 years ago. Escet's birthday. Not only that, but he was also 38, which is Escet's age.

I had to pedal off to the next town and take a stiff swig of squash!
 
Here's a good'un.

A nephew of the ex died in infancy and is buried with the ex's maternal grandparents.

I know where the grave is but I don't visit.
However, I was recently thinking about little Daniel for some reason and had the urge to take flowers.

Today I took the flowers and noticed that the Granndad died on this date, 70 years ago. Escet's birthday. Not only that, but he was also 38, which is Escet's age.

I had to pedal off to the next town and take a stiff swig of squash!

Young to be a grandfather.
 
It's possible to be a grandparent by the time one is thirty, tho' it's not recommended.
 
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