Three coincidences

Of these three, the first two involve my husband and the third, myself. My husband was boarding a Concorde flight at Heathrow, on a business trip, and noticed that someone had left an expensive canmera in a trolley. He had only time to scribble his name and address and hand it to a member of airport staff before boarding. Some days later, I noticed a neighbour hurrying towards our house, which is in a little town on the north coast of Northern Ireland, carrying a bottle of brandy. "Where are you going with that?" "To your house. Jimmy found my camera." How many people pass through Heathrow? Having taken a cruise around the Antarctic on his own, my husband met up with six other single travellers from various countries and they became firm friends throughout the trip. The following year they had a reunion at our home on the North coast of Northern Ireland. One of their number was Jean Francois from Quebec. A couple of years later my husband was on a walking holiday in Cape Town and stopped at a cafe for breakfast. On hearing a familiar voice he turned to see Jean Francois beaming at him and asking, "What are you doing here?" I appreciate that this incident perhaps isn't a great coincidence since they are both regular travellers. The last one involves myself as a child at boarding school. I developed a very high temperature and was moved into the sick bay in quarantine. During the height of the fever I imagined that I floated just below the ceiling, back to my dorm where I looked down on three mischievious girls making me an apple pie bed and hiding a yellow speckly pear down inside the sheets. I was sent home to recuperate and wasn't back at school for a few weeks. On returning to school I prepared to get into bed and discovered that I had an apple pie bed. I had forgotten about the strange vision, but immediately looked down the sheets for the pear. There was no pear, but an apple which had turned yellow with age, and looked very similar to the yellow specked pear which I had "seen". The girls responsible were shocked when I singled them out from the twelve people in the dorm. This incident has intrigued me throughout my life. I have no logical explanation for it. I definitely didn't leave my sick bed as I was too ill, and anyway I had a nurse sitting with me throughout my illness.