my best friend and me
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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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About 30 years ago I was walking with my family in woods near our house in France, by chance we met another couple (he was english, she was french) and they became good friends over a period of time. One day , she told us about her year as an au pair in the UK. Turns out she was lodged in a house 500 yards from my childhood home. It was the house where my brother and I used to go and play with friends, and her bedroom was the room in which we used to play. Although I can't say that strange things happen a lot to me, they do to her. When my daughter was going through a very difficult time she rung me up to ask if there was a problem with my daughter, as she had been woken by the sounds of my daughter crying (my daughter being 100's of miles away at the time and my friend knew nothing of my daughter's problems).
Date submitted:Sat, 19 May 2012 07:21:12 +0000Coincidence ID:6346
