For the Ascended Masters

Well I managed to buy a 4x4 just in time for winter, the only problem I discovered one night was that it did not have any main beam lights, side lights full beam but no main beam! Troubling when you consider I work a lot at night. Now there is a saying in the aviation world when all the technology fails, radar, instruments even engines, FLY THE PLANE! Now I am not liking my 4x4 to an aircraft, but it all comes down to the same method of mentality. I grew up in the country, now us country types evolve into two types of people, carrot crunching cattle farming types of the grease monkey fix anything with an adjustable spanner and hammer! I was the latter. I started my mechanical apprenticeship at a garage that restored MG sports cars and thought I was the dogs nuts. I was partnered up with a gentleman called John Hurrell, now John was already a legend having done his apprenticeship on Steam Engines and Fordson Major Tractors, so by the time he got to be tasked with being my mentor it was like working with my grandfather. John had some wonderful ways and saying like, These modern cars have to much engineering if you don’t have a few screws and bolts left after a job you have not done it right. Then there was the classic day I went to check the spark on a running NSU RO80 only to be thrown across the room by the shock, John looked at me crumpled on the ground with no feeling in my right arm and said guess you wont try that again! He was right. So now to today’s events, having tried checking the dashboard lighting switch with no change, I ordered and replaced the steering column light switch again no change. In total I had the dash apart 3 times and replaced two major switches, and fault checked the wiring loom still no lighting, I gave up at this point. Driving home despondent I resigned myself to thinking about an auto electrician who charges £80 per hour to sort out a baffling problem just like this. Then out of the blue I remembered John, saw his grinning face and his voice saying have you checked the bulbs? Remember the simple things first. Thinking to myself there is no way a single filament on both bulbs can blow at the same time I did not hold up much hope. Sure enough both bulbs had blown! I could have saved myself time and grief if I had of checked the simple things first like blown bulbs. So to the title of this post, Ascended Masters are not just inscrutable Chinese people or Monks sitting on a mountain top, a master is a master even in Mechanical Engineering, they will come to you in times of need and trust me £80 per hour is a time of need for me, and they will remind you of the obvious, keep it simple.

Essex

At last its update time again. Things have been so busy since my last blog. The events are going well in the jail and this year we have introduced dining nights that are looking very popular going by the bookings. The main nights have passed without incident and all the clients have left in good spirits no pun intended. The private bookings have also gone off well so far. It also would appear that we are seeing a shift in the perception and handling of bookings by paranormal groups this year. From my perspective they are appearing more professional towards their clients and the world of spirit in general. There will always be a few who act like children in a sweetshop as soon as they arrive in the venue but experience has shown that groups such as this have a very short life span fortunately.

Something that has dawned on me is the difference in the change of pace between the South West and the East Coast. Growing up on the East Coast I was aware that the pace of life was faster but it seems that now after only15 years in the South West I have slowed to the point that when I drive around here I always seem to be in the way of someone. Its the same with shopping in the High Street, you can walk down a High Street here that is crammed with people and not a single person will notice you! Well unless you get in their way that is. I have also noticed that this is where the money is, Cornwall is nice, calm and spiritual but there is no money, Essex is noisy and fast but the people are minted! I have seen more super-cars on the roads than I have ever seen in a motor show, Ferrari's, Lamborghini's, Audi R8's just popping to the shops!

Audi R8 V10

One improvement that I have thanked the local council for is the changes to the local cemetery. People are inherently lazy up here and like to drive everywhere and at Christmas time while I was tending mothers grave there was a constant stream of cars driving through the cemetery to drop off flowers at their respective graves then whoosh, they were away to get on with their busy lives. It was like tending a grave at a McDonald’s drive through! A cemetery is a place of rest and respect, a place where you should take time to remember loved ones and just take a moment to remember that if it were not for ancestors and family you would not be here! Many a time my clients comment when the spirit of a loved one turns up at the table, “But my relative was not at this jail!!” “no” comes my response “but you are and as your energy is their energy that’s why they have chosen to connect with you at this time. We are the result of them, without them once being in existence we would not exist”.



Lets get with the spiritual / paranormal vibe after all that's what I do for a living. In Essex we have the legend of Borley Rectory. At one time apparently the most haunted place in the country! “I know there are many” most of the activity was researched by a gentlemen called Harry Price (1881-1948) now Mr Price was they say the Paranormal expert of his day, his work at Borley set the scene for paranormal investigation to this day. In modern times its very easy to write debunk and generally be sceptical, I know I get it every week. What modern sceptics sometimes fail to take into account is the time frame that Mr Price was working. This was the period of Alistair Crowley, The Ashkir-Jobson Trianion group, Spiritualist Mediums, Séance’s, Golden Dawn, and a drive for understanding of all things not just the Paranormal, after all this was the start of the age of enlightenment. If you are thinking of putting together your own Paranormal investigation group you can do no better that reading all you can about the world of the paranormal and spiritualist movement. Perhaps leap in and join some societies and gain a deeper understanding, not all involve hand shakes and the potentcail for global control, and gather as much information as you can. Also think about those that have seriously walked this path before, their work was legendary and sometimes on the wild side but that's how we learn as human beings by sometimes stepping out of the box so to speak.



So before you take the “I run a paranormal group plunge” and promote yourself as the best group in the UK just because you brought a batch of K2 meters from Taiwan, because that’s what they use on Ghost-hunters, think about all those who have gone before. the old methods of spirit communication work just as well today as they did back in the 1930's and in some cases better. Look to master the Table Tipping, The Planchet, The Mirror or how about the Communigraph and Psychomantium? Look them up... they did exist.

Please before you set out your Paranormal Groups mission statement saying We are a professional paranormal group formed with the intention of debunking the world of the paranormal! Think about what you are trying to say. As a race we are very good at forgetting the past, its all been done before and its seems to be the modern way to try to disprove things because its the easy option. There are those out there who say that we never went to the moon in 1969, there was also a sceptic out there who thrust a copy of the Bible in front of my hero Buzz Aldrin and asked him to place his hand on it and swear they went! He did what any sane and normal man would do in that situation, he punched him in the face. Even the Holocaust and atrocities at Auschwitz have now been claimed by people never to have happened!! General Eisenhower ordered his men during the liberation of the death camp to “take lots of photographs boy's because some day some bastard will say this never happened”.



 

Andrzeja Rablin

http://en.auschwitz.org



We live in a strange world indeed...

The future is bright, the future is technology

Looking at the date of my last update I was surprised to find how time has flown by, unfortunately as I don’t travel at the speed of light time will not slow down and I am forced to up date when I get some time to myself. So what’s going on in my world! Well the overnights at Bodmin Jail are going well despite the cold, it was -6 in the basement last Friday. The clients are loving it, normally we are not so busy in February but this month has set a record for the highest number of clients on the overnights in my past five years of hosting, by the end of the month we would have hosted 96 people in the jail. Since the closing of my business I have been searching for a new project, don’t get me wrong I love what I do and would not change it for the world but it was while working the other night, I got to thinking we have been working 5 years at the jail and during that time we have witnessed many paranormal happenings but what we don’t have is hard evidence to back up what we teach. I know I know that's what most paranormal groups are about, and we have always been different in that we teach at bodmin. I am not coming away from my core beliefs or even the way I work but what I intend to do is develop equipment that will record and sense the environment of Bodmin Jail while the jail is empty and uncontaminated by human beings.

What should my device look like?

Brian the Brain (to large and tacky)

TWIKI (to annoying)

ORAC (getting closer)

The equipment I am working on will sense and data log humidity/temp emf/seismic activity as well as record sound and have 360 night vision, there will also be the facility to live stream to the internet. I intend to develop this in house at Bodmin Jail and if successful can release it for paranormal general hire with an operator in the future.

(PRSG) Paranormal Remote Sensing Group



The working title for this new venture will be (PRSG) Paranormal Remote Sensing Group and I will be forming my small team very soon, I intend for the group to be a mix of sensitives as well as technical investigators, the purpose is to advance the understanding of my work and back up that information with hard data. Interesting times are ahead.

Once more unto the breach, once more!

So the 2012 season is fast approaching this weekend, and the Jail is ready for the normal heady mix of Paranormal, cold and 7am breakfasts, there will be the normal mixture of humour “the force is strong with this one” screams, and "double entendres" “I must warn you I am a bit of a screamer” I would not change things for the world.

Nice to see you again, ready for some long nights??



There are people out there who will be no doubt unhappy that I will still be at the Jail for at least this year, going by the requests to the Jails email system asking to take over the events, but hay ho you may get lucky next year, please keep sending in those requests and CV's its always nice to know the competition.



January has been a mix of rain and frustration due to Paranormal group no shows and general apathy, the result being that there will be no Paranormal group bookings in future unless backed up by a non returnable deposit. When I am told by a Paranormal group that they want two dates in January and then once booked in vanish off the radar its time for a change to the system. I don’t want to go down that route but I have wasted too much time sitting at the jail waiting for groups to show up over the last month.

Don't loose your head, it will all be ok in the end



It has not stopped raining for the past two days and nights down here in the tropical south wast, add to this the cold temperatures and well its miserable, to counter this I have found what I believe is the ultimate in Paranormal Night clothing and as I don’t really care I will probably wear this until I see the sun again. The information comes from their website but I want one.

When the going gets rough, the tough zip up the Burton Men's One-Piece Snow Suit. With serious waterproofing, fully taped seams, and a comfortable relaxed Burton team fit, this one size totally seals out the winter. oh yes yes yes! In three different colour ways (one for each kind of monkey found in Vermont's Green Mountains) not a problem in Bodmin! but a striped monkey in Vermont?, the One-Piece improves mobility with a stretch Lycra waist zone, articulated knees and sleeves, and a full time Contour hood.



• Stretch Lycra waist zones for mobility
• Lifetime Warranty
• Full-time Contour Hood is designed to move with you so you don't get blind sided when you're twisting through the trees ?
• Hidden pass pocket stashes your pass for safety
• Articulated sleeves and knees for awesome mobility
• Micro fleece hand pockets
• Pass pocket
• Hood Cinch
• Adjustable cuffs

Bottom Line: It's not a boy, it's not a girl, it's a one-piece. oh yes

To boldly go

When I was a boy growing up in ESSEX I suffered badly with Asthma when I was young , this meant that I spent a lot of time at home watching television. I loved watching science fiction and also science fact, I remember programs like The Time Tunnel, Logan's Run, Lost in Space, UFO, Captain Scarlett, Thunderbirds, Dr Who, Space 1999 and various others. In the science fact department there was Cosmos with Carl Sagan, a very young Patrick Moore and the Sky at Night, The Open University Lectures on BBC2 and of course up until 1972 the Apollo Moon Landings.

So where am I going with this blog? Well I guess I am saying I received a different kind of education during my early years one filled with endless possibilities for the science as predicted in the programs like Tomorrows World in the 70's, flying cars, anti gravity, time travel, living on the moon! All seemed possible in the good old 70's but sadly it was not to be.

Apollo went nowhere after 1972, “As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we came, and God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. God bless the crew of Apollo 17” this whole experience of early life left me with obviously a different outlook on life and the world, take for example me idea of a hero.

I am full of admiration for Neil Armstrong who may have been the first man to walk on the Moon, but Buzz Aldrin was the first man to urinate there. While millions watched on live television, Buzz relieved himself in a tube fitted inside his space suit while standing on the LM Lander.



My next hero was Alan Carter from Space 1999 (Nick Tate), Carter was the chef Eagle Transporter pilot, he died more times than I can remember but always came back due to temporal space vortex's or clever script writing, but he always saved the day bringing the Eagle in on a wing and a prayer and saving moonbase Alpha one more time, in a cheerful Australian kind of way, nothing phased him, be it alien monsters to the Moon being blown out of Earth Orbit!! “Eagle 1, Alan can you read me, can you make it?” “main motors gone, losing oxygen but yea I can make it commander”

 

How did this outlook imprint on my life? Well some of you will know that I host the Paranormal nights at Bodmin Jail, I mix Mediumship with Metaphysics from a perspective of Energy Therapy being an Energy Therapist (Reiki Master/Teacher). What you may not know is that I am also a member of The Planetary Society, and have my name listed on a microchip on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter currently in orbit around the moon, LRO will spend at least a year in a low polar orbit approximately 31 miles above the lunar surface, while its seven instruments find safe landing sites, locate potential resources and gather crucial data on the lunar environment that will help astronauts prepare for long-duration lunar expeditions.

Engineers are shown here with the microchip encased in a radiation hardened container and attached to the back of the propulsion module access panel.

LRO

I also devote computer time to the SETI project by decoding the signals from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico as part of an ongoing program in there search for radio signals from distant star systems, so far Kepler 22b could be promising as scientists are calling it the Earth’s twin.

Arecibo, Puerto Rico

My name and this time a message is also on board a test spacecraft IKAROS (Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun) constructed by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)

IKAROS

 IKAROS was successfully launched from the Tanegashima Space Center on May 21st 2011 at 06:58:22, where is it now? well, on December 8th 2011, IKAROS flew by Venus. The distance at closest point to Venus was about 80000km. The monitor cameras took this picture of Venus over the membrane of the solar sail.



My message was: My hopes and dreams for all mankind travel with this craft.

Hello can you hear me!

Well 2012 is here and what looked to be a slow start full of misdirection and dissolving friendships, but now it seems to be developing into something promising. A colleague I met a few years back has contacted me and is keen to try out some new equipment using me as the test subject. “It's time to advance science through reckless experimentation!” for some time now I have been considering how we communicate with the other side, forget the TV come and get me type of mediumship, or the let me read your palm dear! I am talking about real scientifically proven connection with the other side, can there ever be such a thing as scientifically proven mediumship? Sadly from what I see and hear during my work this won't happen for some time, not until science religion and mysticism can all work together. Also there are other considerations, if a device could be developed that could connect this side with the other side what questions could be asked and is mankind ready for that kind of reality, and if it was hypothetically possible would it be suppressed!! time will tell.

Let's end with a timeless classic

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Aristotle: It is the nature of chickens to cross roads.
Isaac Newton: Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest, chickens in motion tend to cross roads.
Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends on your frame of reference.
Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast.
Wolfgang Pauli: There already was a chicken on this side of the road.

Who am I

Time to philosophise, during my quiet low moments a while back a “friend” said not to worry its only from the bottom that you can see your way out!! wise words when you are not at the bottom and can't see any future, but it got me thinking. I work slightly different from the norm, I had this idea that from the bottom there is always a different route that is not well considered in the normal reality of daily life, the route from the bottom? through and out the other side of course! Think of a black hole, a black hole draws in matter and compresses it into its component elements due to gravitational force, now hypothetically these atomised elements travel through the black hole to, well the other side. But what is the other side. Metaphysics talks of there being multiple universes and time lines and that we as human beings are living just in one dimension, our own little universe if you like.

Now before you think I have completely lost the plot let me tell you of a little event in my life. On Sunday 3^rd of September 2006 I started a diploma course in Psychic Development my first attunement was at the megalithic site of Stonehenge, during this attunement we did an exercise called Stargate, this connected us with the energy of the site and did what it said on the label, it connected us with the Stargate energy, now I can guarantee that this was not guided visualization or hypnosis. The result of this exercise was a life changing moment, I found myself floating in an ocean of stars gazing down on a binary star, this was Sirius and I was told “you are home!!”

from this moment my life has changed in many ways, when I look around I see a different world from most. The world and everything in our existence are particles of energy all resonating at different frequency, look around you at your homes, cars and even people, everything is just energy. I have decided that 2012 is going to be a good year, there is much I want to explore, am I just a carbon-based biped life form in charge of my own destiny, or an avatar guided from some unseen spirit, time will tell.

Saxon v Celts

Well I am back from my trip over the border and into the world, Essex is my place of birth and it was nice to return home and catch up with long lost friends and family. While there I spent time alone wandering around the hamlet of my childhood, the thing that caught me was the intensity of memories and sadly the changes that have taken place during my 11 years in Cornwall, I guess I am homesick. I came to Cornwall back then to study my family history as it would appear that the earliest record of my family name originated in Illogan back in the 1500's while I was studying I fell into a job driving articulated trucks for the then English China Clay at Par Docks, from this developed my interest in the Paranormal and my current work at Bodmin Jail. It sounds an easy existence but Cornwall is harsh, forget the chocolate box image of the county, in the past 3 years I can count on one hand the days of warm sunlight and all the images that go with it.

Life has been hard here, I came up with a saying last year, in Essex we lived in Cornwall we survive!! now before the nationalists say “well that’s because you are just one more emmit” I will retort that my ancestors were Cornish and indeed one was married to Richard Trevithick the Cornish God of Steam, and my two daughters are Cornish, I love this place and have devoted 11 years of my life here, but I am what I am an Anglo Saxon from Essex and therefore have ambition and a drive to make a better life for myself and my family, there is a world out there beyond the tamar bridge and that life is better paid with more prospects for development.  My business in the spiritual capital of Cornwall Tintagel is no more, and is now sadly reduced to just an exercise in legal and damage control, I started the exciting prospect of running a proper business full of enthusiasm and drive, but it became obvious that unless you are local and know the right people in this part of the world it makes little difference how good you are at something you will never get to the point of becoming financially secure, when so called Reiki Masters can charge anything from £40 to £400!! pound per hour up country for a single healing session, and even when I reduced my fee to £10 for an hour I was still confronted by apathy and a sucking of breath and cries of “how much” it became obvious things have to change. So ladies and gentleman as we survived being destroyed as a human race this Christmas its time to look to that future.

I will be expanding my field of business interests beyond the border of Cornwall and even across into France/Brittany during 2012, I have to think of the future of my family, and rise above the general malaise that seems to inhabit the circles I work in. Some people will drift away that we have known during our time here and its to be expected, friendship is a transient thing at best, I don’t outwardly seek publicity for the things I do I tend to let my actions speak for me, so I forsee a time when people that have called me friend for some time in this part of the world wont even remember me or what I did in the future.

Despite the rather dull and self wallowing aspect of what I have just written, I am actuality looking forward to 2012 and the future, perhaps the Myan's were not talking about the termination of the human race after all but perhaps just a termination of old ways of life and a fresh start, anyhow bless you all and I will see you all in 2012.



In the words of Peter Gabriel and Salisbury Plain

To keepin' silence I resigned
My friends would think I was a nut
Turning water into wine
Open doors would soon be shut
So I went from day to day
Tho' my life was in a rut
"Till I thought of what I'd say
Which connection I should cut
I was feeling part of the scenery
I walked right out of the machinery
My heart going boom boom boom
"Hey" he said "Grab your things
I've come to take you home."

When illusion spin her net
I'm never where I want to be
And liberty she pirouette
When I think that I am free
Watched by empty silhouettes
Who close their eyes but still can see
No one taught them etiquette
I will show another me
Today I don't need a replacement
I'll tell them what the
smile on my face meant
My heart going boom boom boom
"Hey" I said "You can keep my things,
they've come to take me home."


This and that

It was my intention to update this blog on a daily basis but I now realise that due to work, life and the internet connection that will have to be cut back to a few times a week. But never mind I will still be here. During my exile to the home while I do battle with the rear breaking system on the Alfa Romeo, I have had plenty of time to indulge my hobbies. But as my job is also my hobby there is always a crossover at some point. So I found myself thinking like this, what if I combined one of my old radio control cars with a video cam, that way I could theoretically send it into dark out of the way places where the human body cant reach, and get a different perspective of locations that may have been buried since about 1779! This is very much along the lines of BOB the hover cam that I was working on so I could get a look in the cells of the Navel Prison at Bodmin, Bob is currently grounded at the practice in Tintagel until I can source a new battery but I am sure he will be back. So on to this latest project, I have a Tyco Twister, its 13 inches long and 7 inches high so a nice workable platform for a project. I have removed the top panel to reduce the hight, the good or interesting thing about this vehicle is its method of locomotion, it uses Archimedes Screws to travel on, this gives it very good traction. I am in the process of fitting a head unit combining the camera and lighting system, also because I have loads of bits lying around I am going to fit this head on a swivel platform attached to a servo to give pan & tilt to the camera.

I am back to work tonight as I have a private booking at the Jail to watch over until 4am, it should be an interesting night as I have not worked with this company before, so it will be interesting to see how they operate. Tomorrow is the last commercial night of the year at Bodmin, its been an interesting year and seems to have gone very quickly. I will do a round up after I recover on Sunday, and give you some of the highlights and some of the very quirky sayings that I have been told to me over the year. Last friday Paul from the group took this interesting photograph on level 2 at the Jail,

Enjoy

Back in Bodmin Jail

Tonight and tomorrow I will be in my second home Bodmin Jail, Bodmin has always been good to me and I truly believe if they (the spirits) did not want me here I would be long gone by now. Tonight I have a private tour for 9 clients until 7am, I shall be doing a spot of table tipping and some good old energy workshops. After that its walk around time and see who is about, I have never had a dull night here in the Jail so I am hopeful that the clients may have an experience. Tomorrow I have Paranormal Site Investigators with me over night, I like working with (PSI) as they approach the world of the paranormal from the scientific side, its always nice to have a balance between science & believers, as its how I run my events and indeed my life.



2nd floor mist



James



Life, The Universe and my work life

As human beings we work in a materialistic world, happiness is defined by monetary wealth, the latest mobile phone or even a new pair of shoes to add to the mounting collection of stuff that builds up in the dark corners of our wardrobes. In Victorian times things were different and we seem to judge those times by our modern standards, many a time I hear how harsh Victorian times were, How could they hang people? How could they whip people? How could they impose absolute silence during a Prison sentence? I am not one to condone or defend the Victorian system of punishment I am putting my head on the block to talk about the implications of working in Victorian environments that deal with Paranormal activity. Working from my perspective of the spiritual world, one of energy imprinting on a location and due to the resonate frequency of the living human clients interacting with that environment, thus causing activity that can be defined as Paranormal under our current understanding of the term.

How do we define the term Paranormal? I define the term like this, anything beyond the normal perception of the world that we live is Paranormal. I am a Usui Reiki Master/Teacher and I heal people by the laying on of hands in the positions developed by Hayashi-Sensi, the student of Usui-Sensi the originator of Usui Reiki, if you are familiar with Reiki and Energy Therapy you will know that by channelling energy through the human body you can realign and boost the human body’s natural healing system. I digress slightly but my world is all about energy and so is yours whether you understand it or not, we are talking about atoms and frequencies of energy here. So how does this relate to my work in a Victorian jail? Well I work in an environment where there is over 20,000 tons of Granite, containing Quartz Silica and Mica, all buzzing at different frequencies, add to this mix human beings confined for periods of time under stress and a harsh punishment regime and you have a perfect environment for paranormal activity. Also I must also touch on Religion at this point, religion was big in Victorian England, so let me ask you a question if you were living in Victorian times, and were brought up on family values and a strong sense of right and wrong, then circumstances change and you find yourself locked away in a house of correction. The shame and torment you must feel during your moments of isolation under the silent regime must be immense. Now supposing during your time in Jail you became ill or had your life extinguished by a fellow prisoner, you now have a choice, do you A: Move over to the light and resort to the energy that is the universe? B: Stay where you are and become a roaming earth bound Spirit? The choice seems obvious, but consider the thought that you were brought up with religion. Now you find yourself in prison after commiting some crime, your life is extinguished and you must present yourself at the "Gates of Heaven" to be judged, if you find you are not worthy, you will be sent to Hell where your soul will be ripped apart for all eternity!! Where would you rather go?

Clash of the tour guides!

Never one to consider myself territorial, I was somewhat taken aback today when some cars pulled into the Jail and out poured 15 women over the age of 50. This is nothing new as we often have groups of ladies who pop in for meetings and cream tea, what caught me today was the large stroppy woman who got them in a semi circle and started to give them a tour! OK I thought I will just see how this develops as I sipped my coffee and smoked my cigar. The lady proceeded to wave her arms about like some kind of authority on all things jail related, giving her clients the wrong usage of the buildings the wrong dates for construction of the jail and just generally being wrong on all accounts, but she did it with such flair that her clients were lapping it up. Now what got me seeing the red flag was a sweet lady who turned to me and said “She is very good isn't she?” brilliant came my reply, I would have let her get away with her expert tour but! I saw a moment to strike up a conversation with this expert “are you conducting a tour” was my question? NO ITS PRIVATE ONLY came the short sharp comment with a look at me like I had just crawled out from under a stone. I believe that in Spain this is the moment when the Bull charges at the red flag and gore's the bull fighter right up the back passage, trumpets sounded and the crowd cheered “Toro” I stood up like Clint Eastwood facing the gun men “get a coffin ready” eyes squinting in the rare Cornish sunlight I took a drag on my cigar, before adopting a stance like Horatio from CSI Miami, well madam, I said looking her square in the eyes, I am the tour guide round here so if you want a tour you pay at the bar!! looking like a rapidly deflating Mr Blobby she rounded up her group and went into the jail, being psychic I knew what was coming, “mark can you do a tour for 15” no sorry I am busy came my reply but the lady can take her tour now that she has paid. Satisfaction comes in many forms.

Its true you can walk on water when motivated 

Special Effects at The Jail

Lieutenant Commander Data, not looking his best 

Some of you may be aware that we have a new chap at the Jail, Stewart Beilby was the creative force behind the The Ancient Egyptian Centre in Dobwalls and the Liskeard Chamber of Horrors. Stewart can now be found lurking around the Jail being creative in some way, he has taken on the restoration of our tired mannequins and is giving them a new lease of life and in some cases a bit of a twist. I have always had an interest in Special Effects since my days in the theatre doing body hits with pyrotechnics and blood packs! in particular I enjoyed doing Life Casting with prosthetic alginate, Stewart is an expert in this so I am looking forward to working with him and rekindling my passion for a long lost hobby.

 

"When Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset, people DIE!"

The Redruth Child Murder Case

A Nasty Habit

School Tours & Stuff

This week I will mostly be doing school tours, until the weekend when it's back to overnight events. I enjoy working with the youth of today and trying to expand their understanding of the Victorian system of punishment and discipline in a genuine Prison environment. I do wish that they would stop texting their friends or checking Facebook while I am talking though! Comment of the week so far from a young lad, "If I have a nightmare tonight can I blame you" of course you can lad that's why I am here.

On a better note repairs are coming along well on my Alfa Romeo156, I destroyed the gearbox on my Nissan Terrano 4x4 by clocking up 9600 miles this year! How long the Alfa will last given the state of Cornish roads only time will tell. I have found an image of what could be the Cornish dream car! Able to deal with all situations, pot holes, mine shafts, immigrant workers, tourists and caravans, the only drawback that I can see, “or not” is visibility anything under 5 foot stands a chance of being run over! Oh well never mind, once it winds up to 1.21 gigawatts of electricity time will just be reality.



My Ideal Time Machine



Recovering from Bodmin again

I have just surfaced from working at Bodmin Jail on the night of Saturday the 12th, as always we had a great night with loads of activity and the full English breakfast always goes down well at 7am.