Multiple coincidences

In 1966, two years after I married my wife, Anne, we ended up one day visiting a village called Knot End on a day out with Anne's parents. Anne's mother said that her cousin Lottie lived in the village having retired there and bought a bungalow with her husband Jack. We decided to look them up. I did not know them at all but after the initial welcome, during the conversation ( about family naturally), it turned out that my mother-in-law's cousin Lottie was married to my father's cousin Jack. My dad was also called Jack, and we later arranged a second meeting when the two Jacks definitely confirmed that they were cousins who had not seen each other for many years, having lost contact many years before. In January 1970 Anne and I and our daughter left England to go and live and work in Malawi (Central Africa). When we arrived we were taken on a quick visit to meet some other couples from England, and to our amazement one of the couples were from Burnley, Lancashire, Annes home town and Anne had known them in her early teenage years, and the husband, Barry, was Anne's first ever boyfriend! The next coincidences came later, starting in 1973 but involved old school friends I knew from 1956 to 1961 but who I had not seen or heard of since we left school in 1961. For the purpose of the story they were Reggie W, Ian R, and Michael G. I must mention that Michael G and myself had such a close resemblance that we were on many occasions taken to be twins. In Feb 1973 I went to work for a company in King Williams Town in the cape province of South Africa, and I found that one man who had recently left the company was my old classmate Michael G! I spent quite some time convincing many people that I was not Michael G! I worked a 5 year contract with this company and then wanted to move on, and was contacted by a company in Durban, ( still in South Africa) with a view to joining them, so I flew approximately 600miles to attend an interview, only to be introduced to the person who I would take over from - Michael G! A few years later (1983) I was living and working in the town of Paarl, near Capetown, and one evening Anne and I went to the harbour in Capetown to say farewell to some people we knew who were leaving South Africa, returning to the UK on a ship, so we went on board and had a few drinks with them before it sailed at about midnight. When we got home we were surprised to hear from my daughter Julie that two naval officers had been to the house looking for me, and had left a message for me, one of them was my old classmate Reggie W! His ship had docked in Capetown for 24hrs. He had found out my address and decided to drive from Capetown to my house whilst I was at the harbour on another ship! In 1990, I had been working for a couple of years in Swaziland (southern Africa), the contract was finished and I was at the airport waiting for a flight to Johannesburg, then on to Capetown. The plane was late and all the passengers were waiting in the same area of the tiny airport when I recognised a man I thought I knew, and after staring at him for a while I went over to him and asked if his name happened to be Ian, he replied that it was and he had been wondering about coming over to me to ask the same thing. He was my old classmate Ian R! The coincidence does not end there - he was also flying on to Capetown where it transpired that he lived in the same suburb of Capetown as I did- about six streets away from me!