Category Archives: Coincidences

July 7 remembered

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I was on the tube going past Aldgate that morning with Shirley. I noticed some teenagers with smart looking conference bags, with something about peace and conflict resolution written on them. After I finished reading the Metro I past it to the young Muslim woman sitting opposite, and got off the train. Later I heard about the bombing and thought of this moment.

A few days that July I stood outside the General Medical Council in two minutes silence. Today  then I also think of the 250 patients killed by Dr Harold Shipman.

Today’s coincidence

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I was just thinking about Al, who used to work at one of the London local authorities that clashed with the Thatcher Government in the 1980s, and lo and behold there he was walking down Gray’s Inn Road. (Of course there was a nice coincidence when he also turned up in the same office as myself at Holborn Gate, during the Health Development Agency days.) I also happened to be thinking about coincidences, having posted on emotional intelligence, and how that relates to a different way of approaching reality. But that’s getting all clever on a hot day and I need to get to my recruitment agency!