Mrs Chris Gough

(1) A lady came to our WI meeting and joined on her first evening (there are around 70 members). She sat next to me and, as she is blind, I offered to put her name in our birthday book so that she could have a birthday buttonhole in the appropriate month. Amazingly, her birthday is on the same day as mine (20 August) but we are a number of years apart! (2) I had received a circular from a dress shop about 10 miles away which advertised a pre-season sale. I went to browse and, apart from two other customers, was alone in the shop. One of the other customers complained to the manager of the shop that she hadn't been notified of the sale and had heard of it from a friend. The manager checked the circulation list for the mail shots and said that she had two people with the same surname - Gough. So there we were, together in one place! (3) We live in Chipping Sodbury, about 12 miles from the centre of Bristol. We parked near the centre one evening, only to find when we returned to our car - 5 years old by then - that the car in front had a registration number only one digit away from ours - WP56 rather than our WP06 with the same three last letters.