Bird Project

Happy New Year. Is it too late to say that now?

At the beginning of the year, we recieved an email from Ola Liszewska (which is a great name) to tell us about her own small world experiment. Entitled the bird project, Ola gave out small laminated cards with a drawing of a bird to 22 people and asked people to see who could get the bird to have the longest journey. The project has been going for two months now and just when Ola was about to give up hope, she suddenly got her first email. Jeremy the bird had made it to Stolkholm.

We are keen to hear about more small world experiment. If you are attempting a similar project then let us know.

Small world stories

Post your own stories of small world encouters here.

For example:

I recently flew to New York and the plane was pretty empty and I was looking forward to having a load of space around me and a view across the aisle and out the window.

Just as I was making myself comfortable and wondering what the inflight movie would be I noticed out the corner of my eye more people being led up the plane by an air stewardess and placed into the seats across the aisle from me. I glanced over and it was an old school friend who I hadn't seen for several years.

The chances of ending up beside him considering how big and empty the plane was seemed remarkable - what was even a stranger coincedence was that on a previous holiday I had actually bumped into his sister in a greek airport.

So thats the kind of thing we want to hear - stories of connections between strangers or of meeting someone unexpected in an unimagined places.