Cambridge Coincidences Collection

My two sons - one in the army, one at university - arranged independently to got to a pop festival a couple of hundred miles away, each with their own friends. They both had the tickets sent to my house. The student set off a day early to stay with friends but realised as he arrived that he'd forgotten his ticket! He rang me and I was able to locate the ticket and give it to the soldier in the hope that they'd meet up. No need to worry, as they both turned up at the same gate at the same time before they'd had a chance to arrange anything!

In May 2009, before my husband and I were married, we went to go and look at a venue for our wedding reception (Wilbraham Barns, Great Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire). We turned up for a 3 o'clock appointment and I told the events coordinator Simon that my name was Lucy Harrison and we were due to look around the venue. He looked a little confused and it turned out that another 'Lucy Harrison' was also looking around the venue at the exact same time! We introduced ourselves, it was very strange meeting someone with the same name as me! I did have to check that we weren't going to have the same surname after getting married!

My parents were visiting from Spain where they have lived for the past 6 years. They bumped into an old neighbour, who when chatting discovered they were both on the same cruise over Christmas., On the cruise they were chatting and got onto the subject of boxing. My father said that his granddaughter did boxing, the neighbour said how funny as she'd just given a cheque to a local boxing club for funding from the royal variety club of Great Britain , to a Carl Barton, that is my son in law said my dad!!

I went on holiday to Recife, Brazil last year having lived there 17 years ago without having been back since. One important reason for going back was to finally sort out some slightly mucky elements from my past which had contributed to my leaving - I had been spurred into action by having read a book called The Velvet Rage last year. I wanted to meet up with 2 Brazilians, Savio and Walter, both of whom I had been in a relationship with, but had lost touch with when I left the country (and was unable to track down on any social networking sites). I thought i would go anyway and somehow try and locate them - totally unrealistic really in a city of a million people. The 2 of them used to share a flat with a 3rd person Adelmo, who had moved to Switzerland 15 years ago, at which point (so it turned out) all 3 of them had lost touch. Walking along the beach on my 2nd day in Recife I bumped into Adelmo - he was also just visting on holiday, from Switzerland, as his mother had died the previous month. I was naturally delighted because I assumed he would know of the whereabouts of the other 2.