We had the room setup as usual.
I did the opening prayer at 8.25pm. Liz had asked me to include asking for some communications through her that I would recognise. I then turned out the light and put the music on.
This week we changed the way we did the Rainbow Bridge visualisation exercise. We decided to go back to how we started doing it. We visualised standing on one side of a bridge that leads to the spirit world then going half way over to wait for anyone to come from the other side.
I met four family members while Liz fell asleep during the exercise not waking till after the music CD finished.
I didn't notice anything happening in the room till just before the music CD finished. My legs got very cold and I saw bright blobs coming and going.
Liz then started to speak...
'A lady is coming through, showing me some painted furniture, crafts... Got a name like Roberta. I see her turning on taps, she's wearing overalls, she has straight blonde hair, shortish... Keeps coming back to me in a sense of somebody I know called Jill... in the country with caravans. This lady may have been somebody connected with Sue Laborg'
'I see Carol throwing away a cigarette'
'Cathy... I keep getting the impression of a strong, stringent, quite bossy lady who always liked to be right'
'The Isle of Skye'
'Ellis... a big man repairing a bucket, wall paper decorating... tractor wheels and tyres, somebody connected with farms, agricultural machinery'
'Pete... bucket and spade, sixpence'
'Getting a series of pictures of a row of houses, seems to be connected with John Lennon... a street, ladies in pinafores, I'm getting quite hot, going over heath and moorland, larks rising. Going on a steam boat on a trip. A sense of a seaside visit, going on a pier with roundabouts, entertainments. I want to ride my bicycle...'
'Canvey Island... Doreen... a very old lady, quite wrinkled... keep going back to Canvey Island, somebody's grandma, small lady sitting at a round table, white lace cloth on it and an old-fashioned telephone'
'Country gentleman with a gun on a shoot, brown suit, leggings, gaiters, peeked cap'
'Got the word verify'
'Brenda has come to bake a cake, marshmallows. Strong connection with confectionery, sweet nature. Imagine Brenda in a sweet shop selling sweets to children. She's got white hair, spectacles. The old woman who lived in a shoe, connection with Aladdin, pantomimes'
'I'm asking for something for Nick... a large key for winding something up, clockwork'
'Paul Andrews'
'Waiting for the sky to fall in, chicken licking, to do with misinterpreting, like making a mountain out of a molehill... Got the word hill or Hillary'
'I seem to be going to school, a school scarf, got a feeling of a lady, dark hair, spectacles, slightly bent or squashed, in her 60s. Sort of French, dark, masculine face, large nose. She's small but quite broad. In some position of control, could have a cane with her, wants to rap on the table to get attention. She has useful things to say, quite stern but with a sense of fun, can be quite sharp. Someone you could think of as an old witch but she's actually good hearted and I sense she's very fond of you, she thinks you're a very good boy, she's pleased with you, you're on the right path. She's someone who'd keep you on your toes. I think she's a Salvation Army lady. I see a broach, something nautical, girl guides, public spirited, Union Jack colours. The broach is not ornamental but something to show you are connected with something, a badge of honour, prefect badge, St John's Ambulance'
'A connection with horses, animals, getting the name Valerie'
'Reginald, a character like Reggie Perrin. I sense a black cloth being thrown over me to make me disappear'
'Beryl... short curly hair'
'Lions Corner House... Stephany or Stephen'
'Got this saying like... an ounce of butter well spread is better than a whole pound... not so much the frugality but the careful application, applying sparingly but prudently. A bit of home wisdom from the old harridan. There's none so wise as those who know to spread the seed sparingly... and now we have to go and have a falafel. I almost want to call her Auntie Flo, sort of Mediterranean feeling, an old Auntie of Mediterranean descent'
'A sense of someone called Roy in connection with a boot camp, sent to a boot camp to knock some sense into him'
Liz came back.
Then I did the healing exercise, closing prayer and our closing down exercise.
There were some things Liz said that I did recognise...
I had an Auntie Flo but she wasn't Mediterranean. However, she was quite well off and went on holiday to the Mediterranean and I remember going run her house several times with my parents to watch cine films she had taken there.
'I want to ride my bicycle' was a phrase Joan used to say a lot in connection with Freddie.
Some of the descriptions sounded like my Gran including painting furniture, a strong, stringent, quite bossy lady who always liked to be right and I have a memory of watching larks rising with her.
Also, I know someone called Beryl with short curly hair who is still on this side.