I remember in the main absorbing and being shown the guarded secrets of the 'Romany' way.
I look back & remember (always with great fondness) how materially poor we were, yet spiritually rich; so, YES, I do understand UTTER despair and REAL poverty.
If you wish, read of my own emotional extremes that I feel qualify me to truly say I DO know what it feels like to suffer/experience emotional abandonment as well as validation... & loving too much !! . . . (and too little :(... !
2. What was it like growing up?
A) I consider myself to have been blessed to have been a sixties 'gypsy' kid - yes JUST like you see in those B&W British films! - yet young and ambitious seventies teenager studying 'real' education to make up for 'lost' time, & then 'media mystic' to the stars of stage and screen, and inspirational article writer of the eighties, eventaully maturing to corporate psychic in the nineties, but . . maybe, well we'll come to that later.
Throughout these decades, I continued to give face to face readings/consultations to people from all walks of life via numerous mediums, pardon the pun.
More experience encouraged me to go 'up-market' and I had consulting rooms in Mayfair, London. A turnaround from Travelling around setting up 'stall' in incense-filled, candles-a-lit psychics fairs!, and Mind Body Spirit, Prediction Festival etc . . .as well as unpaid and paid radio and TV presentations, which led to visiting the homes of the rich and famous as well as the not so famous! (infamous)
Professional ettiquette prevents me from telling you who they were, but they are well documented nevertheless.
3) I guess like everyone on Keen - you began with zero points?..... so . . . .
What motivated you to carry on doing what you do?
A) you mean besides all those callbacks? :))
I guess remembering looking at my listing showing 10 points just about 2 years ago? Thinking this is going to take DEDICATION! - especially since keen.com had a good head start . . .
Sorry, I diverse - my early childhood was clearly the initial blueprint of life as if looking out of my pram at the world . . . (literally) at just a few months.
... as I write, I can smell the sweetness in the air of the freshly rolled candy floss and sugared doughnuts at the next stall on the promenade next to our fortune telling 'hut' it mixed strangely with freshly frying onions from the roadside grills, as the tourists and the plain curious queued for a reading - especially from the CryStal Ball (which I still have and proudly use with callers on KEEN)
I owe a GREAT debt to my Grandmother, who, in spirit, is a still a huge influence in my life. I have dedicated my work to her, in keeping with her principles of honesty and compassion.
Much of my motivation and humour stems from her easy way and kindness yet razor sharp vision and wisdom. She was also a magnificant artist and loved to paint in oils on canvas.
She was born in 1895 and died peacefully in 1996 at 101 years: perhaps no coincidence 101 being a prime number! ... Just in fact as she had predicted herself.
4. Have other psychics had similar influences?
A) I can answer that by saying that this FAQ is 'speaking for myself' - but I can, with full integrity, & commit to paper, that I have never departed from the Psychic world; all said here is with open heart and totally true.
5. What might others be surprised to know about you?
Phew! - Good question!
Can I take the fifth on that one?
[INTERVIEWER] No! - sorry, mention a few . . .
ok - where can I begin? 'surprising?' - ok . . .
a) I modelled (once) (by accident/for a dare) for Sony in a pair of striped swimming trunks.
b) I am officially retained as a forensic - or 'expert witness' as a graphologist & document expert, specialising in determining authorship & anonymous letters/notes...
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