Further to my post and observation on Thursday things appear to be getting worse.

Ive just counted the same blatant spamming/advertising post 22 times in 15 minutes!

Im tempted to try and rally the troops and fight back...a revolution from blogland. But Im far too lazy and timid for that.

Pain in the back? Pain in the arse...

Ive just started reading a novel called 'Coincidence'. Which is about many things, the obvious one being the C word, and its lesser known other description of 'Synchronicity'.

Coincidentally, the book is written by a chap called David Ambrose. The other week I lent my girlfriend (Hi honey x!) a book called 'The Man who turned into himself'. It was by David Ambrose. Very good by the way. Oh, and I gave it to her as she is writing a very good book (yes it is) for which I thought this one might be useful as it had 'similar' themes.

And incidentally, there were all sorts of coindidences afoot which conspired in us meeting. Me taking a spur of the moment decision to work on a project for 9 months on the other side of the country; having to book into a different hotel for one week only as the usual wasnt free; said hotel, being where she worked; etc, etc. Full story is not for now!

Coincidentally, the day after I dropped off the book, the first book I saw when I took my regular visit to the Charrridddeeeeee shop was......Coincidence, by David Ambrose (by the way, the only book of his I knew was the aforementioned one I own).
It was was £1.50.
Coincidentally what I had in pocket. But I coulnt buy it as Im a greedy pig and Greggs was calling.

A few days after that, we were walking by some offices on the road I live, with me commenting 'how good would that be if I could get a job there in my particular field' (Its not always the easiest job position to find offered, especially in the town I live)

Opened up my job email/messages the next day?
Coincidentally - a position had just that day been advertised for that very same role, in that very same company.

Yesterday, went to the library to take some books back, had a look at the novels and found the 'Coincidence' book. So I got it.

Started reading it yesterday afternoon/early evening.

Coincidentally, on the first page, a phrase was used to describe something. 'Mutually exclusive'. Not an overly common phrase. But I had used it myself not two hours prior to that.

(Now Im not embarking on any grand theory here about synchronicity, and the questions of whether coincidence happens because we are more primed for it once weve thought about it, or whether its more complicated than that. For instance, its easy for something to happen then bring to mind a previous occurrence or similarity. Conversely, its not so easy to blame recollection on reading/seeing something then a coincidental event happening afterwards. Thats for another time - preferably drink or drug induced .)

It just struck me as ironic about the coincidence of finding a book called coincidence amidst so many coincidences.

One last thing -

Its NO coincidence that I chose to spend 15 minutes typing this piece about coincidence, instead of getting on with filling out an application form I should be doing. Lol.

Thats procrastination. And being a lazy arse.