Snapshots: A Coincidence Diary

On May 18th, 2013, I noted that Pam Ayres and someone else, whom I did not follow, had retweeted a tweet that I had sent to Pam the previous day. It was a whimsical observation re horses and Catherine the Great. - 18 May: @PamAyres You sound like Catherine the Great, Pam... One of the retweeters was Paul Fletcher - Paul Fletcher @FleTwitcher18 May@JamesPlaskett just saw one of your tweets retweeted. Bit of a surprise because we went to school together #bms #amillionyearsago That prompted me to confess to having thrown a stone at school that had hit his head - He responded with - Paul Fletcher @FleTwitcher18 May@JamesPlaskett OMG it was YOU! I didn't ever know, or even guess. Apology accepted, even if its a little late ;-) #stillscarred And the chat continued with his enclosing a shot of the, still extant, scar I had caused on his head... Paul Fletcher @FleTwitcher18 MayYou did this to me @JamesPlaskett pic.twitter.com/ffq6Za4dBl I tweeted that I would be writing up the c...

Around 11:20 on the evening of February 22nd 2013 I was viewing an e mail link that my wife had just sent me. She had been disputing an earlier statistic that I had advanced where Sam Harris had cited 38% of British Muslims supporting the death penalty for any apostate. It may be heard here at 3:00 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZVYfADAnw8&list=PL45FAA00C0F2F490E I had sent her one link to Harris on Youtube where he gave a high % and was now moved to e mail her across (she was actually in an adjacent room!) another one where he gave a still higher figure. She was not enthusiastic about Harris and sent me across this link - http://www.loonwatch.com/tag/sam-harris/ I began reading it, and did not find it very supportive of her negativity.  Whilst I did so I happened to have a Youtube link continuing to play in the background.  When I reached this point in the loonwatch piece - There is no vice in having once been religious, for we all of us inherit our mythologies f...

(Further to Entry 272, on December 3rd 2012 I uploaded some of the details of that Entry to my Facebook page and added the link to the In Depth interview with Hitchens. It prompted these comments. Angela Radice, suggests that I had resided in a certain street in Bedford.  I had.  And then relates that she only ever stayed one night in Bedford and that was at a wedding reception in a hotel in that street. And then, during our interchange, she discovers the hotel was once her husband´s family home.) Jackie Barclay Bates Bonham   I know you like this synchronicity thing James so if it's of any consequence, my dad was in the Navy when he met my mum, a Wren.   Angela Radice   My father-in-law was in the army and went to see one of his men in a military hospital. He admired a nurse who was looking after him and discovered that she lived nearby him at home in Bedford. He married her. H. James Plaskett   ... and my mum lives in Bedford. My dad died there. ...