CHRIS: When did you give your very first professional reading, Angie? Where and how was this reading done?

ANGIE: My very first reading was not professional but a test. I was at a house in Sudbury visiting and was asked if I would take hold of a ring and give whatever came into my head. Firstly, I refused to do this, and said that I was not capable of doing anything like this. The woman would not take no for an answer and insisted I stop being negative and to take the ring.

I held it for some time and suddenly I saw what can only be described as an old black and white film. It really felt as if I was in the cinema watching a very old movie. Coming towards me was a very ample lady dressed all in black with a white apron on. She was very plump, had her hair back off her face and tied back. Her complexion, although I was seeing  no color, I felt was rosy red. She smiled at me and then stood aside, sweeping her arm out as if to say, "Let me show you."

Just coming up the path was another person. A gentleman, very thin, and I remember most vividly that his trousers (pants) were tied up with string. He had on a rolled up sleeved shirt.

Then I was shown a farmhouse with a white picket fence. The farmhouse was white as I remember. I mentioned that I thought I was on a farm and was asked to continue. Children's voices were heard, quite a few of them, shouting and laughing. Suddenly, the scene changed and I was shown a cart pulled by a horse. The man I had seen earlier was taking children for a ride around the farm.

I could not get much more but was told that, indeed, I was on a farm. A farm in Northern Ireland, the home of the woman's grandparents (the couple who greeted me). They loved children and apparently many a happy holiday was spent there on this farm. The woman told me that no other medium had picked her grandmother up before.

So, that is the very first time ever of reading for somebody. I expect readers will wonder how, after all these years, do I remember all I said, when normally after reading for people now, it is erased from my mind. I think that I was meant to remember this first one. This took place in about 1985 or 86. Since then my psychic energy has increased.

The first professional reading happened around that time. I had tripped along to the Spiritualist Church for an Evening of Clairvoyance. I was so drawn to the Spiritual Churches and loved attending. To cut a long story short, the medium had rung and said she could not make it. The President, Don Scott, pinned me up against the wall and said, "You are going onto the platform to work tonight."

The lady who I had gotten the information of the farm in Northern Ireland said she would be up there with me and not to worry. I nearly ran out of the church in fright, but was persuaded to do this. Many a medium had come to me at that time with the same message.

"One day you will be up on the platform."

How I had scoffed inwardly at this. So, there I was, on a Saturday night with about 35 people sitting and looking expectantly at me. It was changed to psychometry where the audience put an object of theirs in numbered boxes on a tray. I would pick one up and give what I got from the object. My knees knocked, my mouth felt dry and I still did not believe I should have been up there.

The first object, a pen I think, I picked up and immediately said that I saw animals of every description, from dogs and cats to donkeys, goats, etc. After I had finished with the pen, I held it up and gave out the number. A lady came towards the platform.

"I have an animal sanctuary and all you saw I could take," she said.

Another lady that night took the fact that I saw the Eiffel Tower in Paris with her. She told the audience and myself that, that day a postcard had arrived from France with the Eiffel Tower on the front.

That was my very first recollection of clairvoyance. I don't think special times in one's life can be forgotten. I remember where I was and what I was doing the day Kennedy was killed. I was on holiday in Norfolk at the sink washing up dishes. When his brother, Bobby, was killed, I was on my hands and knees cleaning our kitchen floor in our Air Force flat in Germany. When I heard the news of the fated engagement of Diana to Prince Charles, I was cleaning the bathroom. Ask me what I had for dinner five days ago and I could not tell you!!!

CHRIS: You explained in the "test" with the ring, what you saw and how things came through to you and the same for your first evening of clairvoyance. Has your ability changed since then? Do things come to you in the same manner as they did then, or differently?

ANGIE: Yes, since that time things have changed. When I first started, having something of the person to hold was, I suppose, like a baby needing a rattle. When I was "pushed" into the pool in the deep end, so to speak, I felt I needed to hold an object. As time went on, I became more confident and this confidence came through more when I was in front of an audience. I remember in 1947 being given my first 2-wheeler bicycle. At first you wobble, and then suddenly, away you go and never, ever fall off. You have conquered it!!! You see, nobody held the seat so I would not fall off. I taught myself.