old friend

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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.

Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.

In 1971, aged 20, I spent a week at the Glastonbury festival and was dropped off at Bath station to catch a train to London to visit my mother. I lived in Bristol at the time. I tried to buy a magazine but was a few pence short. The shop assistant would not help me so, in the spirit of Glastonbury, I turned to the person behind me in the queue and asked them if they would give me 2 pence. The 'person' turned out to be a girl called Celia who I had been friends with at Primary school in Salisbury and had not seen for about 10 years because she moved away. She was also catching the train to London and bought me a cup of tea and a bun.
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Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:26:16 +0000Coincidence ID:4774