1) This is really a long story but I will cut it very short.

I did know about spiritualism from a very early age as the woman next door to us when I was born was my Mums best friend and consequently became my God Mother. By the time I was old enough to hear when Mum talked to others about Mrs Roberts being a platform medium, Mrs Robberts had moved and was gone from our lives and I have no memory of her at all.

Mum used to say how Mrs Roberts had said that she (Mum) should become a medium as she had "the gift" herself.

I never really knew what it was all about except that one spoke to the dead.

At 18 I discovered a great game, which was putting bits of paper around the table with letters of the alphabet on and with a glass asking the spirits to come. I got my 2 elder sisters involved with this and for a few weeks we just used to get together in the evenings for a glass of wine and play this game.

It was also about this time that I discovered (totally unrelated) that on picking up an object I could tell it''s date and a little bit about the owner. Fortune tell in other words and along with discovering Tarot Cards I used to use this as a party trick with my friends and work mates. It literally was a game that my friends and family used to get me to do. Some for entertainment and some because they didn't believe I could do it so used to try and catch me out.

Still at this time I hadn't linked it to anything to do with spiritualism or with contact with the dead.

But my eldest Sister one day suggested we started going to medium demonstrations at the local church. We went weekly for many months. Still I didn't go into what it was all about, I just knew that some people could communicate with those passed over.

Then in my very late 30s I discovered that I had in fact been empathic all my life. People with problems had always been naturally drawn to me and through out those years I had taken in, housed and set on their feet many people. Giving them a roof over their head when they needed it and supported them emotionally.

It was one day that I happened to say to someone. "My goodness did you feel that mans anger that just passed by".

Of course the person I was with had no idea what I meant by "feel". In the discussion that followed I realised that not everyone could "feel" people as I had all my life.

Up to this point in my life I had also had many experiences of seeing spirit or other strange things throughout my life anyway and about 7 years ago something nasty happened to me that I realised I either had to learn to control it or learn to stop it.

By then we had a computer in the house belonging to my eldest granddaughter, then only 10 years old, and I got on the web and after a while found myself on a message board similar to The Spiritual Pathway. From there I met Fran20 and others, and that's when I seriously started to develop.

2) My favourite colour is actually red but I am never really brave enough to wear it although I have done on rare occasions. I mainly tend to go for blue and blue is certainly my absolute favourite for decorating, for living with. In fact prior to moving down here my whole house was decorated blue in some way or another. Either pale on the walls or added as an acents to more neutral colours.

3) I mostly wear long thigh, or ankle length skirts but of course they can't be worn when riding my bike so then it's jeans. I have just lately, since being down here started wearing trousers more though.