My friend Al and I have a thing about 11:11. I'm sure
we're not the only ones. It's not true of course but sometimes it seems every
time I look at a clock it's 11:11, either am or pm. Recently, funny things have
been happening with other numbers.
In Ypres in Belgium, at the end of a long day visiting
war graves and the fabulous 'In Flanders Fields' museum in the Cloth Hall,
reading painful accounts of First World War memories, Huw asked me the time. It
was 19:14.
And over the past few weeks, our truck's model number
- 101 - has appeared everywhere, following me like some strange numerical
ghost. We filled our petrol tank in France and it came to exactly 101 euros. In
Jonathan's car on the way back from Siena we tuned in to a local radio station:
Radio 101. Just this very afternoon, off the train from Tunis and walking back
to the campsite we were nearly run over by a car with 101 in its number plate.
Can anyone explain this phenomenon? Is some kind of law of attraction taking
place? And how do I make it stop?
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