Dungeness

I've been reading a book called Stiff, about dead bodies and their use in medicine.
Towards the end it discusses burial and cremation alongside other forms of body disposal such as composting.
At the end of that chapter the author talks to a man who says that using Dungeness crabs would be the best way to return a body to nature.
I finished the book a few minutes later and went on twitter to check the latest England news ahead of the football and I saw the following post by a band called Turin Brakes:

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I'm on the list

I was in the basement at work picking up some equipment from our store and as I was walking back to the lift I saw a piece of paper on the floor. Now I normally don't pick up paper on the floor, incase someone has dropped it and retraces their steps looking for it. But this time, I picked it up. It had been folded in half, and then in half again and the side that was facing up when it was on the floor was blank but the other side had a list of names with what looked like shirt sizes.
At the end of the list was a gap of about 2/3 lines and then a single name: Gareth.
I've got a photo somewhere that I'll put up of it.

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Doves and chestnuts

I was lying in bed the other night reading and gave myself till 10pm so I wasn't up all night.
I had a quick glance at the clock and saw I had about 5 minutes to go.
When I finished the chapter and put my kindle down, I picked up my phone and saw that it was 10.03. Nothing strange there, until I saw my Spotify widget showing the last song I listened to was 10.03 by Doves.
Weird.
Whilst I started thinking about this being another coincidence I heard a noise from the kitchen like seeing had fallen off of a shelf.
I got out of bed and went to look and found a case of chestnuts had warped enough to pop open and spill the nuts onto the worktop.
The case had been in the kitchen for around 2 weeks now but popped open at the same time as a coincidence had occurred...

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It starts...

Recently I've become a bit obsessed with noting any coincidental events and occurrences that happen, as it seems to me that our happens a lot - unless I'm just looking out for them? So I've decided to document them in this blog to help me make some sense of them.

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