Swifty
doesn't negotiate with terriers
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In the early to mid 90's I was invited by a new age traveler friend to visit and stay at Hatfield Court near Leominster in Hertfordshire. It was owned by a famous aging hippy called Jeremy Sandford who wrote Cathy Come Home and other anti-establishment material. He ran the place like a commune, each room painted different colours as healing rooms, open sex and drugs, sweat lodges ... that sort of stuff.
The deal was it was polite that staying there for free meant we all had to muck in with gardening, cooking, cleaning etc.
One day we were on kitchen detail. I caught Mick (my friend) grinning. He told me there was a mad group using the dining room called Iraelians (I distinctly remember him using the letter I before Raelians). We spied on them and they were sat in a circle with a single small radio in the middle tuned into static (or white noise if you prefer). Some of them were talking to this radio. Mick said he's seen them before and that they'd previously claimed they were being talked back to by Aliens.
They were all very nice people and a couple even tried talking me and Mick into travelling with the group to Brazil where they were planning on building a runway for UFO's .. already aware of Heavens Gate and The Jonestown Massacre, Charlie Manson's family etc, we both politely declined.
(sorry if there's already a Raelian thread, I couldn't find one so please move this post to the correct place if there is)
The deal was it was polite that staying there for free meant we all had to muck in with gardening, cooking, cleaning etc.
One day we were on kitchen detail. I caught Mick (my friend) grinning. He told me there was a mad group using the dining room called Iraelians (I distinctly remember him using the letter I before Raelians). We spied on them and they were sat in a circle with a single small radio in the middle tuned into static (or white noise if you prefer). Some of them were talking to this radio. Mick said he's seen them before and that they'd previously claimed they were being talked back to by Aliens.
They were all very nice people and a couple even tried talking me and Mick into travelling with the group to Brazil where they were planning on building a runway for UFO's .. already aware of Heavens Gate and The Jonestown Massacre, Charlie Manson's family etc, we both politely declined.
(sorry if there's already a Raelian thread, I couldn't find one so please move this post to the correct place if there is)
