Cambridge Coincidences Collection

My daughter and I were walking our excitable young labrador up the narrow country path, towards a corner which led to the open fields - at which point the dog would be let off her lead. ''Why can't we take her off the lead now'' she asked. ''Better to wait until we get around the corner and into the fields, since it'll be easier to spot any chaseable objects such as cyclists and horses'' I suggested. ''But we're nearly there, nothing will come'' she told me. ''It might - a horse might come round the corner at any moment'' I said. Seconds later, with the dog still on the lead, around the corner came a horse....

I lived in London, my sister lived in Chelmsford. I had not seen her for a number of years. I was on my way to run a IT course for early one morning and walked past this woman, who, stopped and said, "don't say hello to your sister". I barely recognised her, we had not seen each other for so long. We stopped and chatted. She was in London sitting an examination. We agreed to meet and catch up early in the future and went our separate ways. At the end of the training day, about 6pm, I left to go home, and - yes, you've guessed it - I bumped straight into her again.

My University had made an admin error with my booking for living in halls of residence in my first year. When I got there on my first day it was clear that they'd screwed up with 40-50 other new students. For the first week therefore the Uni had to put us up in a sports hall on fold up beds- think emergency shelter following natural disaster. Anyway the lad on the foldable next to me was from Bangor, Ireland and I was from London. We got chatting and realised that his family an my family had lived in Kenya during the 60s. It then transpired that we were delivered in the same Nairobi hospital; same year, 3 days apart.

Myself and my cousin have birthdays separated by 1 year minus 1 day. My father and his father (brothers) have birthdays separated by 2years minus 2days.