Perfect coincidences

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Driving into London on Saturday, I found myself behind a van decorated with pictures of Lockets (throat sweets). The van was rather faded, so the three packets depicted were all pale pastelly colours: one pink, one gold and one green.

As I drew alongside the van while overtaking it, I realised that in front of me was a pink car, to my right (overtaking me) was a gold car, and behind me a green one. All of them the same kind of faded pastel metallic as the pictures of the Lockets. To anyone not in my car the image would have been spoiled by my dark red car in the middle of it. For me it was perfect :-)

The rest of the weekend was pretty good, too...

On Saturday kauket, zenithed, denalyia, al_fruitbat and _alanna and I failed to save the world from Azathoth and had delivery sushi! (I wish somewhere in Oxford delivered sushi.)

On Sunday frax, ealuscerwen, mothsmoonflower and S joined me and kauket for a trip to Alexandra Palace and the Knitting and Stitching Show, at which I spent lots of money buying all the purple wool in the world. Especially lovely was the shared nature of the experience. Although I have quite a few friends who knit, most of my knitting is essentially solitary, and opportunities to talk about it in person are sadly rare (especially in semester time when all my free evenings get eaten by essays). Opportunities to buy yarn in person are similarly rare - there are two shops in Oxford which sell yarn, but one only sells cheap and nasty and the other has a very limited supply of the less interesting mass-produced high-end stuff. If I've managed to knit everything I bought this time, I might go again next year :-)

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