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Did you know that I am a fully qualified hypnotherapist? I used to have my own practice in Barnard Castle in County Durham.
Most of my clients wanted to lose weight, but funnily, in Kendal, where I did my training, most clients wanted to stop smoking. Being hypnotised feels wonderful, and once I'm under I never want to come out of it! (Which has been known to make my friends panic - this was when we were practising on each other during our training). Hypnotherapy is NOTHING like the stage hypnosis you see as entertainment - it is very relaxing, makes you sleep better, boosts your confidence and helps you to solve your problems.
I can highly recommend it - although I no longer practise it myself.
As some of you may know I live on the Isle of Mull, in the Inner Hebrides.
My house is 5 miles from the nearest village and a few miles from my nearest neighbour, so when I need to chill out and see another living thing, I pop over to the beach, which is at the bottom of my garden and sit on the rocks watching the seals.
They aren't there all year round, but when they are they are just as inquisitive about me as I am about them.
If I walk along the beach, it is common for them to follow me backwards and forwards, watching me all the time!
SHEILA RODGERS' HUSBAND BITTEN BY AN ADDER! Whilst gardening recently, John, Sheila's husband was bitten on the finger. (He didn't know what had bitten him but the two puncture wounds on his finger looked like a snake bite).
The finger swelled up and was painful for a few days.
It was only a day later that their dog, a labradoodle called Alfie, started barking and acting strangely in the garden.
When Sheila went to investigate she saw that the thing causing the dog to act out was, in fact, an adder.
She took the dog and locked him indoors, then ran to get her husband from his office.
John picked up the snake with a broom handle and put it into the field next door. Unfortunately, that wasn't the end to it, because 2 weeks later the adder was back in the same place and there was Alfie trying to defend his family again! Sheila 'phoned the RSPCA for advice on how to deter the snake from returning but was told just to make a noise at that place in the garden as snakes don't like loud noises - they will slither away, and eventually will find a new quieter home! All eyes are peeled when gardening at the moment!