Thursday, December 13, 2012

Who (or whom) are you?

I just received a Christmas card from....well, that's the problem, I can't read the writing!  The address is neatly written on the back, as coming from Shoal Bay, but I cannot for the life of me remember knowing anyone from that area!  I googled the address, no avail.

This has started a process of elimination, not one of the cousins, the name has 3 "i"'s in it, who can it be?  It brings back to memory a previous occasion when I received a lovely printed wedding invitation, a very swish one I might add, that would mean us travelling about 300 kms. to the wedding, staying overnight, and of course the wedding present (present list & accommodation options kindly included).  I rang my husband, no knowledge, I rang my dad, was it a long lost cousin I had forgotten about? No luck there either.  Finally my husband realised it was a person he spoke to occasionally across the lines at work (he works in radio), whom he had never actually met.  As it was going to be quite an expense, and we did not even know the bride in any way, we declined.  At least we finally figured out who it was though.

I am trying to find names with 3 i's in them, and worked out it is Virginia.  Of course!  This is also a colleague of my husbands.  I don't know how I can keep up with them!

Let the last word on this subject go to Sherlock Holmes:

"My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable"

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