Friday 13th

[Bling (mark)]

It's true bad luck does fall on Friday 13th sat waiting for three crimbo presents to come today first one recurve bow for son wrong parts delivered sent back second one came Owain Glyndwr replica sword opened box tip of sword  bent sent back and if anyone  finds the third one please let my know it  hasn't  come yet  I'm off to bed see you all on the 14th

[grego]

I staid in all day just in case

[Neil]

Sounds like your building up an arsenal for the impending zombie apocalypse.

In numerology, the number twelve is considered the number of divine organizational arrangement or chronological completeness, as reflected in the twelve months of the year, twelve hours of the clock day, twelve gods of Olympus, twelve tribes of Israel, twelve Apostles of Jesus, the 12 successors of Muhammad in Shia Islam, twelve signs of the Zodiac, the 12 years of the Buddhist cycle, etc., whereas the number thirteen was considered irregular, transgressing this completeness. There is also a superstition, thought by some to derive from the Last Supper or a Norse myth, that having thirteen people seated at a table results in the death of one of the diners.

Friday has been considered an unlucky day at least since the 14th century's The Canterbury Tales,[5] and many other professions have regarded Friday as an unlucky day to undertake journeys or begin new projects.

Christians commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus on the Friday before Easter.
One author, noting that references are all but nonexistent before 1907 but frequently seen thereafter, has argued that its popularity derives from the publication that year of Thomas W. Lawson's popular novel Friday, the Thirteenth,[6] in which an unscrupulous broker takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th.[1]

Records of the superstition are rarely found before the 20th century, when it became extremely common. The connection between the Friday the 13th superstition and the Knights Templar was popularized in Dan Brown's 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code and in John J. Robinson's 1989 work Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry.

On Friday, 13 October 1307, hundreds of the Knights Templar were arrested in France, an action apparently motivated financially and undertaken by the efficient royal bureaucracy to increase the prestige of the crown. Philip IV was the force behind this ruthless move, but it has also tarnished the historical reputation of Clement V. From the very day of Clement V's coronation, the king falsely charged the Templars with heresy, immorality and abuses, and the scruples of the Pope were compromised by a growing sense that the burgeoning French State might not wait for the Church, but would proceed independently.[7]

[Val Beechey]

Believe me Mark, it doesn't have to be Friday the 13th to have problems with parcels. 
I've just recovered from the Mother of all runs with a delivery.
19th Nov I phoned to enquire when I might expect a delivery of trees. Should be with you by the end of the week, was the reply. There isn't enough room on here to go through everything but short story.....1st delivery got lost by Courier. 2nd delivery sent.......mislaid by Courier (same one)....finally found.....and sent to local Courier who delivered the same day.....8th Dec.!!!!!!.
I lost track of the days I waited in for nothing. Can't think of anything worse than feeling like the Prisoner of Zenda for the sake of some ones ineptitude.

Val

[dances with badgers]

nice write up neil

[Bling (mark)]

 Neil I enjoyed your read interesting  thank you

[cardiffian]

I do not know if there is any substance to it but I was once told that there was a time when ships would not set to sea on a Friday 13th.