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Another Evening of Clairvoyance. The clairvoyant this week was a stocky chap, close-cropped ginger hair waistcoat, maroon shirt with a silver trim to the collar, black and silver diagonally striped tie, single gold earring. A rather flamboyant style, acting out the messages, making jokes and...

My copy arrived yesterday. I hope we've given his sales a bit of a boost.

There's supposed to be three ghosts at Rufford Old Hall. I was wondering if there was anything on the Leeds - Liverpool Canal. One of my great-grandfathers was a a bargee (Barge Captain according to the 1901 census) working the Leeds - Liverpool

Who else spent the second half of DUNE 2, waiting for Paul Atreides to say "I'm not the Messiah, I'm a very naughty boy"?

The set up was that I'd just finished my exams, at the university where I'd been studying English as a mature student. I was discussing this with a young student who I knew in the university refectory. I described an idea I'd had for a novel set in multiple realities where the one constant is...

Bother, not coming anywhere near here. Maybe he'll do it in the second half of the year.

"Stand up, Stand up, for Jesus..."

Another possible explanation is that these structure are being built by some sufficiently advanced aliens like the Xeelee.

I expect that the fine art of the Poison Pen letter has now been superseded by malicious emails from disposable addresses and trolling and bullying on social media.

It's very hard to miss KAra in a carpark, in a sea of mainly white, and silver-grey cars. A bonus being that you'd have to be pretty desperate to TWOC her.

Rule 34: “If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions." So will public domain Mickey be giving public domain Minnie his Steamboat Willy?

I used a fishing vest for emergency wash kit, pants, t-shirt, first aid kit, camera, films, travel towel, foil blanket, notepad pens, etc in 1991, for Egypt, and 1992 for Peru. Obviously way ahead of my time. No electronic stuff back then though. And if you're wearing it you can make a swift...

About 6 weeks ago, I restarted a dream journal. Since a lot of dreams evaporate in minutes, the instant I wake up I scribble down a few key words and phrases, which anchor the dream and act as triggers I so can write it up in more detail later, even if I doze off again. However, I've started...

The Sesquicentennial Distinguished Chair is an academic award that the University of Otago created to mark it's 150th anniversary for academics who are outstanding in their fields etc...

I developed this about eight years ago with the first two joints of the fingers on my left hand going white when they got cold, and annoyingly when I handled anything frozen from the freezer. It stopped happening about three years ago, so no clue as to what started it and why it resolved.

Dreamt I had written a Children's Book and it had been published. Its title? "Henry the Potato and his T54 Tank".

If you added googles and a chunky watchchain, it's be rather SteamPunk. Or in black it's rather Goth. BTW I forget I was first on this thread, I think the title got tweaked at some point.

My late Uncle was a Catholic Priest, who met Pope John XXIII, and our school chaplain was Father Vincent Nichols, who's now Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols, who'll have met several Popes, so I'm only a few steps away from anyone who's met one or more of the recent Popes.

Dreamt I'd been given a job fitting six mosquitos with skis. (Three legs to each ski which were tiny slivers of wood, glued on). Messed up the first one, but got the knack, and did a few extra as spares.

I'd try one so long as the snake meat was only from the legs.

Thought that was very well done. Two new cases, not the classics revisited and proper investigation and a balanced consideration of the explanations: hallucination (possibly induced by mould) and suggestion, real ghosts, or time-slips. Given the reaction of the old man ghost to meeting the...

Possibly not the worst, but a dull mess, underwhelming effects and disjoined plot. The Exorcist: Believer. Does feature an ecumenical exorcism though, Baptist pastor, Pentacostal Minister, Catholic Priest, Catholic ex-nun, plus a Hoodoo practitioner.

Earliest memories come from a holiday in Lytham St Annes, when I was just over 2, this was before my brother was born. 1.) Visiting an old lady in a very brown living room (my Granny had worked for her family, as a young lady's companion, before the first world war. 2) Sitting on the sand by a...

Just returned from another "Evening of Clairvoyance" at the local Spiritualist church. The medium this time a tall slim woman in a floaty chiffon drew and rather elegant with a slight northern accent gave a demonstration of 'Psychic art'. She drew charcoal and chalk portraits of the spirits...

Odd dream: I had to walk into work overnight, through various Northern townscapes, almost 30 miles. When I got there I only had the clothes I was wearing, no pencils or laptop. Was given some paperwork that didn't make sense, and was pretending to my co-workers that everything was OK. I was...

The Destruction of Time was the only episode that actually scared me, I was about 10 and had watched Doctor Who from the start and I thought it was going to be the final end of the series. Unless someone can pop back in time and record it off air I don't think we'll ever see the full series again.

"Bulls Blood" was my go to wine in student days (73 - 76), it was relatively cheap and fairly robust (I don't have a subtle palate) I must have missed the little goblets promotion. Not so much hangovers on it, more a general overall ache and feeling like you were on another planet.

There was a large, pretty basic supermarket, in an old mill in Wigan late 60s - early 70s. I don't remember it's name, but it sold multipacks of stuff, and we wanted to stock up for a holiday. Only went there a couple of times (I'm from Burscough btw). Can't help out with the wine though.

Mushrooms? It looks like the FSB have decided to mix it up a bit.

The local arsonists are offering BOBOF's - Burn One, Burn One Free.

What do you think? Anti-aircraft missile, bomb on board or other sabotage? It's unlikely that the Russians will give straight story.

Can't contribute anything, but will definitely buy the book!

I have trouble writing anything down in dreams, I'll constantly misspell things, or my pen won't write. If I do write something down either it changes when I look away, or I can't find the piece of paper or page in a notebook. I can open books and read what's on a page, but I can never find a...

Two more mediums. Went along last Saturday as they had two mediums in. Two ladies of a certain age, one very glam in a shining fitted dress and killer heels, the other in a summer dress and dark cardie - both with chunky pendants and silver jewellery. As before the audience - about 35...

I saw the film tonight, the introduction should have just stuck with Britt Ekland, Dominic and Justin Hardy, and the guy that did the music, the film critic added noting and Reese Shearsmith was superfluous too. Lot of people nipping out for a pre-movie wee. I saw it on the original release in...

Not that weird but from the 70s, I was the only person I knew who liked Amazin Raisin or Pyramint

Hi Scargs, et al. See the "Two nights, two mediums" thread.

At the request of Escargot, in the “Have You Got a Double?” thread. Our local Spiritualist Church has an “Evening of Clairvoyance” every two or three weeks on a Saturday at 7:30. These are described as demonstration of mediumship, and are separate from the actual Church services on a Sunday. As...

I was at an "Evening of Clairvoyance" today and spotted my ex-doppelganger, a couple of rows in front of me. I say ex, as she has a dark auburn bob, similar to what I had a while back, before I went lighter and longer. We're not unalike in build and general style, however, I no longer have...

Go on Scargs, your encounters with the other are always interesting.

The Romans wore socks with toes their sandals, you could probably knit those on the dodecahedron too. (I expect warms socks would have been appreciated if you were stationed in North Britannia, patrolling Hadrian's wall).

I see you've taken a Taxi in Cairo... BTW Gal Gadot would be a better fit facially for Cleopatra. I know she's Israeli, but she's got a Mediterranean face.

I'll bet it was the ones training to be PE Teachers...

Isn't the Blarney Stone supposed to be part of a medieval latrine, with the specific function of deflecting some of the shit away from the castle wall?

That just popped up on my timelines - really worthwhile reading article. None of the twee "tiny fairy" stuff.

That would explain a lot, and I've tended towards that idea. The ear of the the chap in the bowler appears match that the ear of Robert del Naja, and ears are fairly unique and hard to fake in doubles, so Robert del Naja could be Banksy, part of team Banksy, or a deliberate decoy. Is the bowler...

'We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?' The Eleventh Doctor (as written by Stephen Moffat) 'To see a World in a Grain of Sand. And a Heaven in a Wild Flower. Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand. And Eternity in an hour.' William Blake

I've been playing around with chatGPT - Though I'd try it's playwriting abilities with a scene in the life of maverick scientist and inventor Nicola Tesla. The Brief: A play. Nicola Tesla is broken, penniless, and living in a run down hotel. All his inventions have been stolen by others or...

A former medical colleague saw his sort of thing when she was working in A & E, the ring slips on easily enough when the chap is floppy, but when he becomes excited the ring constricts various blood vessels and blood flows, in but can't flow out. Gentlemen becomes rather distressed as his...

Does the current Bomb Cyclone deep freeze in the US remind anyone of the 2004 disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow from Roland Emmerich?