Engagement Ring

On the night my boyfriend and I decided to get engaged, (after only one month of knowing each other and meeting on a blind date!) I dreamt of an engagement ring ........ it had one solitaire diamond and on the shoulders, which were gold, there were three small rubies on each side. The next day I couldn't believe that I had had such a vivid dream and it was so real. That lunch time I went out into town with my work colleagues as usual but I stopped them at every jewellery shop amid their comments of 'you haven't known him that long' and 'poor fellow does he know what he's in for'. They didn't deter me from my task of finding the ring and yes I did find it. We were looking in one window and the ring seemed to jump out at me. Just as I had dreamt it had a solitaire diamond and rubies on the gold shoulders. It wasn't expensive....cheaper than we had decided to pay....and that night I couldn't wait to tell my boyfriend that I had found the ring I wanted. On the weekend we went into town to buy the ring and I look in the window and couldn't find it. I did finally see it and couldn't believe how I had manage to find it in the first place as it was on one of the highest ring pads and in a corner. I was obviously meant to have the ring and yes we did get married about a year later and have just celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary.

Baby's Names

I often find it difficult to understand why pregnant woman do not know the sex of their expectant baby without the aide of a scan. When I was first pregnant I was 85 to 90% sure that my baby was going to be a boy, so much so that I had already chosen a boy's name and just in case I was wrong, (and I believed this to be highly unlikely) I chose a ridiculous female name............which is just as well that I was right and had a son.

The name I chose for my son was one that I liked because I liked all the boys and men who had the same name, I thought that I had not come across a person of that name who was not calm and kind. When my husband's aunt was told the name of our son's name she was a fair way to throwing herself into my arms to thank me! I was absolutely perplexed at her attitude until she explained that the name I had chosen was a family name and all the eldest sons had been given that name. The reason I wasn't aware was because my husband's father was the second son and his elder brother (who was childless) was called by a derivative version of the name. My son is a very calm, kind and thoughtful person.

On my second pregnancy I was always 90 to 95% sure it was going to be a girl but I didn't have a name as life kept me occupied......such as moving from Yorkshire to Cornwall and having all my furniture in store and living in a caravan for one month and then rented accommodation upto my 8th month of pregnancy.

I was well over my due birth date when, one night, I told my husband that this baby wasn't going to make an appearance until she had been given a name. We sat down with a very ancient Encyclopedia and started to look through the girls names and meaning. We eventually settled on a name that meant 'of the Moon' and again just in case I was wrong we half heartedly chose a boy's name that represented our respective fathers.

The very next morning my waters broke and I went into hospital but my daughter had her own ideas ......... as well as waiting for her name she also decided to be born on the 7th of the month delaying her appearance by a whole day. She is a very psychic and spiritual person!

My children when my daughter was around 8 months old.

Spiritual Neighbours

When I was young I was always aware of the fact that people could be psychic (although I didn't know the terms for it) as my mother always knew when we would have visitors, even before we had a telephone installed. She would get up in a morning, often on a weekend, and makes us tidy and clean, telling us we would have a visitor - she was always right and often she could even tell us who would be visiting. Other than these incidents my experienes with spiritualists or pyschics was, like most children, confined to the ghoulish films and books and if anyone had said that I would meet a ghost or spirit person I would have been very frightened and run for cover. These feeling stayed with me for a very long time.

When we moved to Cornwall and settled into our house we started to received a neighbour's mail. They lived a few houses away from us and had the same surname as us. The husband also had my husband second initial, which is why we assumed that we received their mail - puzzling that they never received any of our mail!

Because of taking their mail round to them I got to know the Wife and we struck up an acquintance. It turn our that she was in her second marriage and she had two children to her second husband, the first a girl born six months after my son but had the same initial and her second daughter born six months after my daughter and she also had the same initial as my daughter.

Over time we became friends and we often had long chats over coffee. It was during one of these chats that she started to tell me about her healing experiences and also how her husband was a healer as well. Well I was fascinated but dubious at the same time. Often she would tell me (what were to me then) really weird happenings and I would just stare at her not sure whether I was more frightened by it all or fascinated. She would see my state and tell me that she wouldn't talk about it any more if it was frightening me or upsetting me - thats when I knew I was more fascinated - I told her to continue.

Overtime I started to ask her more questions and became more aware of what had over time been happening to me - you know those times that you just dismiss as hearing things or seeing things or just coincidence. She explained a lot of things to me and to this day I am grateful to have met her. I no longer live in Cornwall and have only been back to visit her once but we keep in touch with each other every Christmas, I never miss nor does she. She was my first step into the understanding of the spirit world.