Hampstead Ponds
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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.
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Years ago back in the 1980's I spent a couple of years living in London. I had been there a few months when I decided to go swimming at the ladies ponds in Hampstead. In the pond a woman came swimming up to me and I realised she was a good friend from University in Dunedin, NZ. I hadnt seen her for a couple of years and didnt know she was in the UK. It was a great meeting.
I had a similiar encounter about the same time - wandering through one of the London markets in my lunch hour I bumped into another old Kiwi University friend - again I had lost touch and didnt know where she was living.
Despite being such a big city I found two good friends quite by accident.
Date submitted:Tue, 22 May 2012 01:11:37 +0000Coincidence ID:6387
