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Radlett, again

‘Law of coincidence’ blog post – July 18 – seeked explanations to the unexplainable UFO (Unfortunately Frequently Occurring) mentions of a small Hertfordshire village of Radlett that is gripping the nation, or possibly just PWP Comms.  See today’s Metro Newspaper “Speed cameras lottery explained” P14 article for further mentions of the phenomenon… “Residents in Radlett, Hertfordshire, have a conviction rate [for speed camera offences] of 27 per cent – more than double the national average.”  Where will it end?  What next will this previously unheard of town top the polls on?

Law of coincidence

PWP en route to Luton

When an unusual word is mentioned three times by different people in different conversations in different settings in a relatively quick time space, the law of coincidence makes you stop and wonder why.  Why Radlett in this case.  Radlett is a place that through many previous decades has never been mentioned to me, or if it has, I was not concentrating which could explain a lot as not concentrating can sometimes be quite appealing, and possibly more appealing than listening to someone telling you in great detail about Radlett.  Coincidence One: my train to London is terminated by East Midlands Trains at Luton with a belated message telling me I have the option of somehow getting to Radlett whereupon another primitive form of transport will somehow take me beyond “a large village located north of London in the county of Hertfordshire between St Albans and Elstree on Watling Street with a population of approximately 8,000.” Thank you Wikipedia. Coincidence Two: friend at the school summer fair announces her family are off for the weekend to Radlett.  Coincidence Three: PR Week announces that Radlett is after a PR agency for some PR support or some such story.  I cannot believe for one moment they need to boost the large village’s profile as everyone it seems currently is talking about Radlett or ending up there.

Press releases and fishing

Has anyone ever walked past an angler by the side of a river, lake or canal and at that precise moment of passing seen them actually reel in a fish?  It must happen as often as a big Lotto win, if at all.  These ‘ermen’ – as I doubt the existence of fish in said aquatic bodies – seem to be playing the equivalent role of the untargetted press release sent out by the PR executive, whizzing out his email like the line on a rod.  If anyone has an experience of walking past an ermen and seeing a fish pulled from the water, I would be grateful for their tale.  Please note spelling of the last word in the previous sentence.