Coincidences around buying a cottage

Coincidences around buying a cottage Following my wife's suggestion that we purchase a pair of cottages for us and my brother to live in - he would come down from letting a flat in London and we would move out of a council purchase property - we started looking around in the rural locality. Our estate agent gave us particulars (from another agent), saying, "You won't want to buy but you must go and look at these . . ." The details and the property made a very good example of 'misleading by ommission' and 'misinformation by photo' - two well-known agents' practices at the time. However . . . . . . we went into the pub next door - not mentioned in the particulars - and had a good laugh. Then on showing the details to the barmaid she said. "If you want a pair of cottages, Mrs B in the village is selling." (1) So the visit was arranged to view. During our discussions I asked had Mrs B ever done bed and breakfast? A glimmer of memory was coming into my mind. Yes she had; well, I said I thought that I might have stayed there some ten years previously, and I recollected copying a poem down from a framed print on the wall. "Ah, I remember you," she said, and went upstairs, returning with her visiitors' book of that date, in which my enthusiastic comments were written. (2) This seemed a good omen and a curious concidence, but more were to become apparent: our names began with B, and included an identical group of three other letters. (3) our phone numbers both ended with '801' (4) my brother and her son both worked for the same railway company (5) my wife had recently painted a picture from the top of the hill rising opposite, before we were looking to buy - if you had walked into the picture you would have seen our cottages! (6) This all seemed too good to be true, Mrs B was happy to wait six months for our house to sell and we have been here very pleasantly for twenty five years since.