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Hi Everyone!

This picture, believe it or not, is of our old family mausoleum in London. My brother, cousin and I went to visit it last year. It doesn't house my parents or any of that generation as it was closed up many years ago, but the names of great aunts and uncles are clearly engraved on the outside. My brother actually inherited the huge key for its door and brought it along. However, we weren't able to use it as the lock was missing - due to its having been boarded up, presumably to deter thieves. I haven't actually been visited by any of the spirits of the incumbents, probably because they had died a long time before I was born and therefore there's not much of a connection between me and them. However, I thought you might be interested to see this amazing building!

Just recently I went to a mind, body, spirit fair and for some reason my parents were very keen to communicate - so much so that it got rather embarrassing! There were several little talks given by some of the mediums there and at each one either Mum or Dad insisted on coming through! It was lovely but at the last one when the medium said, "I have someone calling out John and David (my Dad's name and my brother's)....." I thought I'd better keep quiet and let someone else's spirit family go instead. This they did very quickly. I think what happens at these events is that there are a whole lot of spirit people queuing up, desperate to have their go through the medium, and I think there can even be quite a bit of spirit pushing and shoving going on! So, when I declined who I knew was my dad on this occasion (sadly, but fair's fair to the others - which he would have understood), the spirit person next to him would have quickly jumped in and turned the 'John' and 'David' to their advantage, or simply ignored them and said something else that would have been recognised by someone else in the audience. Aren't they great?!