By Terence Le Duc

It is not a curse - its a positive sign that something good will happen or you are thinking along the right track or you have made the right decision.

33 has been in my life now for well over 15 years. The first time I can recall using 33 to my benefit was when I went to a Casino in London and was not ready to bet my usual numbers on the Roulette wheel so I quickly place £20 on number 33 and of course it came up.

I had been waking up at 3.33am for quite a few weeks before that and it kept popping up everywhere I looked.

Sometimes it gets very spooky - as though the 33 fairy is excited about my future and wants to keep telling me to keep going, other times it can be eerily quiet and I think she has left me to go elsewhere but she always comes back.

I feel blessed and happy that 33 is in my life - I see it all the times and it never fails to catch me out when I am not looking for it and there is no way it can appear there it is - in a sign, on a bus (our local bus route the only one in the whole country is 333!), on mobile telephones.

Once I looked at the mobile phone and the call had lasted 3minutes and 33 seconds. Bills and receipts sometimes add up to all the three's.

I take photos of my car mileage as so often it has read 333.3 miles - the other day I pasted this from my ebay account time 08.33.33 BST.

I have told friends and relatives about it over the years and that is when the 33 fairy has really got carried away. (Showing off I think)

Once we were in France with three friends we drove to Carcasonne from our Villa in Canet drove around all day and arrived back at the villa. As I went to get out of the car I glanced down at the kilometers we had driven that day and I was astonished to see it was 333.3 exactly.

Another time I took our neighbors to Southend to the casino there and drove them home - when we got home my neighbor Ken pointed out to me that the mileage was showing XX333.3.

Last one for now - I took some other friends to a fish restaurant in Chelmsford. We were seated in the waiting area having a drink, I went to the toilet and then found my friends were astonished to tell me that we were to be taken to table 33.