From Leeds to Lesotho

After graduating from Leeds University in 1971 I spent a period of time as a volunteer in Lesotho. I was one of a small number of volunteers working at different locations throughout the country. After several months there I was in discussion with one the other volunteers who, in transpired, had also been at Leeds University whilst I was there. No big coincidence, until we discovered we'd both lived in the same road in Headingley for the same two years. I lived at number 20 whilst he lived at 19. We both occupied the identical top floor front rooms overlooking each other across the road. So we'd lived about 15 yards apart for 2 years, but we'd not met, nor even recognised each other, until we met 6,000 miles away in Lesotho! Another shorter coincidence relating to my Headingley address - several years after I left Leeds University, my wife and I were attending a wedding in Lincoln. The person sitting next to me at the reception (who I'd never met before) lived in the same room in the same house as me a couple of years after me. There was no underlying link between the wedding and my having been at Leeds University - the couple marrying were friends of my wife who has no links to Leeds.