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Old Nov 25th 2003, 12:43 pm
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We are just selling in preparation for the move various things we dont want to or cant ship with us. I have just sold a very large belfast sink that we'd had kicking around in the garage for ages. The guy who has just bought it had lived in Aukland! a couple of years ago, he was really enthusiastic about the place. We must have been chatting for ages I almost forgot I was selling him the sink. He said I would love it, he had worked as a hairdresser there and that everyone he had ever met there was really nice and that the whole place had a very easy going laid back attitude to life.
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Old Nov 25th 2003, 12:50 pm
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It truly is a small world - the HR bodney helping to sort out Hubby's job is second cousin to a chap my family know very well in my parents' home village in the Forest of Dean - and she lived with him for a while while she was a teenager - so we probably bumped into each other on the disco/pub circuit!

Also, while visiting friends in Ozfor three days while a kid, their neighbour (who lived about 3 miles away) popped in to talk about a problem with the river - first time they had seen him for about 5 months.

Anyway, he was an expat, got talking with my Dad, commented on Dad's surname and said he went to school with a Catlin.

Transpired he had been best mates with my Grandad for years while they were nippers.

It was spooky :scared:
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I recently had to take my daughter to the hospital for tests. The Dr was from Aus and trained with a specialist in her field who now works in the Royal Free Children's hosp in Brisbane. She has already sent a letter of referral to her pal so we know the Dr my Daughter will see before we get there!!

Fantastic news for us as she needs to attend every 6 months and it is quite a specialist sort of paediatrician needed.
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Old Nov 25th 2003, 6:26 pm
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I bumped in to an Aussie mate of mine on Coogee beach, Sydney, whom I had worked with in London.

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Old Nov 26th 2003, 9:26 am
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Originally posted by sky
We are just selling in preparation for the move various things we dont want to or cant ship with us. I have just sold a very large belfast sink that we'd had kicking around in the garage for ages. The guy who has just bought it had lived in Aukland! a couple of years ago, he was really enthusiastic about the place. We must have been chatting for ages I almost forgot I was selling him the sink. He said I would love it, he had worked as a hairdresser there and that everyone he had ever met there was really nice and that the whole place had a very easy going laid back attitude to life.

Did he say why he left?
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Old Nov 26th 2003, 10:20 am
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He met his future wife here when back on a visit but is planning on going back in the future. I just knew someone would ask that and to be honest I wondered aswel.
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Old Nov 26th 2003, 10:33 am
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Originally posted by sky
He met his future wife here when back on a visit but is planning on going back in the future. I just knew someone would ask that and to be honest I wondered aswel.
Given the nature of his forum the question had to be asked

But seriously I think there are all sorts of reasons people moved to and fro and its nice to hear both sides.

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Last Friday night I was sat in what is now my local out here in Nelson and a guy comes upto me:

"Excuse me, I think we went to primary school together" he says. "You havent changed a bit."

Turns out he was one of my really good mates from primary school - who I havent seen since I was 10 and living in Gloucester!

Unbeleivable. He recognised me straight away (scary) but couldn't believe he would bump into me in a small town on the other side of the world. Spotted my pommy accent though and knew it was me
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newly arrived in sydney in september staying with my brother, we had a night out with a couple we met last year whilst here for said brothers' wedding. it was the night before we left sydney to drive up to the gold coast where we have now settled and we were saying goodnight and flagged down a taxi to go back to brothers house. we knew no-one else in australia at all. jumped into back of cab and gave the destination address. then the driver said "is that you, karen?" !!!!! i immediately knew him too strangely enough and said "is that you steve?"
well, he was a taxi driver in birmingham 25 years ago when i worked on the radio at t.o.a. taxis!
now that was wierd.............:scared: :scared: :scared:
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In a lobby of the business hotel at Vienna Airport I was immediately recognised by my old mate Dino, with whom I did a language course in Florence about 20 years ago. He's a Greek with a big future - father was a Greek Senator and politics tends to be 'in the family' in Greece - and a great guy so I was happy to get back in touch!

Also got recognised by an old university mate in Bangkok Airport so I must still look as young as ever!!!
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When I was backpacking in Australia, the first hostel we stayed at I was sharing a room with 2 guys I went to sixth form college with - I recognised their Essex accent, and it turned out they lived in the village I kept my pony - although I didn't know their names I recognised their faces - very spooky!

Reading all the threads it is amazing the amount of people who bump into people in the strangest places - is it just coincedence or is there something strange at work:scared:
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When I was backpacking in Australia, the first hostel we stayed at I was sharing a room with 2 guys I went to sixth form college with - I recognised their Essex accent, and it turned out they lived in the village I kept my pony - although I didn't know their names I recognised their faces - very spooky!

Reading all the threads it is amazing the amount of people who bump into people in the strangest places - is it just coincedence or is there something strange at work:scared:
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Originally posted by Copperben
is it just coincedence or is there something strange at work:scared:
no, just goes to show how small the world is and that Australia/NZ aren't really that far from the UK

I have had various bumping into, in the unlikeliest of places and even found out during a conversation that the guy (who was visiting the office I worked at) had worked with my Dad 20yrs ago
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A few years ago I got chatting to a lady at my local butchers here in Adelaide and it turned out my dad had failed her at her driving test back in the 1960's in Wallington in Surrey..............mind you he failed just about everyone then including my ex-husband who then got his revenge by marrying me!
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