I think there is a practical and quite simple explanation - the site is haunted. I read somewhere that any site that doesn't use Microsoft software is prone to this. The legal team will consider adding to terms and conditions i.e. we are not responsible (the list grows longer) for paranormal activity in assignments.

I can believe what is being said though, coincidence on websites (and in libraries) can be high and is responsible for many urban myths on the web. Personally though, I think it is ghosts, and they have been responsible for any mistakes I have made over the site's history, which now make sense, I of course have only been responsible for the good things.

Ted (or potentially a paranormal apparition in form of Ted)

Off topic. notleyab, have tried to reply to your emails but keep getting failure notice. Your system is spamming me.
Over to you. There’s a juniper tree in my garden, but I have an uncle in Kiev.

I have a keen interest in it from a laymans perspective, haven't really considered including anything like it in a novel as yet. .

Some months ago I sat next to a very annoying family on a very long train ride. I think god sat us together to punish me for impatience and intolerance, because there were two children in their early twenties - each of whom was enrolled in a some hifalutin double degree at the local university (the renowned one).

By the end of the trip I knew - from their 'completely random' chatter - that the father had given a lecture to a hall full of doctors the previous day, that the daughter was studying law and had several theories on 'why people are collectively stupid' (to which the parents listened, enraptured) and that the son was studying engineering, with an astrophysicist friend whose enormous brain 'was wasted on string theory', because, of course, my travelling companion knew ALL about it, and THEREFORE knew that real physicists steer clear of such utter rubbish...

It didn't help that they were a family of Australians who spoke with vague British accents.

There's nothing more dodgy than that, I can tell you.

There's nothing wrong with an Australian accent. There's nothing wrong with a British accent. But BEWARE the Australian who speaks like a toff; those are the kinds you really want to avoid sitting next to on a heritage steam train to the whop whops on mother's day.

And that's all I want to know about string theory.

And THAT is exactly how I intend to have the last laugh. I just need a punchline.