Speeding whilst driving is a bad thing, and everyone should obviously abide by the laws of the land and the road. The Swiss take their laws of the road very seriously, unlike the Italians, who are a much more fun loving nation!

Going back to Christmas Eve, and the infamous green olive, and the sheer pain of having broken a back tooth in half…

It’s strange perhaps how you learn things and form your ideas. As I said before I first came across Paul McKenna’s book Change Your Life in 7 Days purely by chance; I had bought it originally for my wife, and then after ending up reading it myself, and really got into it all…

I would argue that everything is connected one way or another, be it doing things, work or learning, or how we feel, being successful or being happy…

There is something a bit strange about doing something that your cynical about. Like the Ouija board, you may well think it’s mumbo jumbo, but deep down you think there could be something in it. If there is a God, or something like an energy or spirit world, surely it/he knows too what’s going through your mind…

Whilst all this was going on, I was also becoming more and more involved with the idea that our physical bodies and minds not being totally disconnected with the world around us – plus I had started doing hypnosis, EFT and reading a fair amount on the subject…

I’ve no idea if it rains more here now than it used to do in the past. But when it rains, it really rains! As I said before, our apartment is on the ground floor, but below us we have our garage, and a laundry and some storage space – and so from the road outside there is a drive which goes down to our garage and another couple of garages…

Lina finished, I suppose it was, after we moved house – for the second time in a couple of years! Before then we had been living before in Switzerland, in the end for about seven or eight years, and although we had been very happy there, and had made lots of wonderful friends, it was not to be. Switzerland is a beautiful place in many ways, but it is not part of Europe, and so it can be complicated at times…

On the evening, we arranged to meet up and from there go on together to a Mexican restaurant in downtown Lugano. When I got to the prearranged rendezvous she was not alone, but with a friend. A female friend. The mad lawyer.

I was in fact quite glad we weren’t alone. I had no wish for anything to possibly be construed as a romantic encounter!

She had said several times over the course of months that she wanted to invite me to dinner sometime, and I in reply would say, ‘Yes, yes.’ And smile, and go on with what we were doing hoping she would forget…

I think probably Lina had come to the conclusion that she was in reality wasting her time trying to learn English. She may well have had many talents, but alas English was not one of them…

As you know, I am a musician, and at that time I had been subscribing to an English music magazine Future Music for several years, which I had sent by post. Nothing strange. It’s a monthly publication and in just about every issue there would be competitions…

I was, and to a large degree, still am cynical about many things. I don’t think that I’m easily taken in, not normally anyway, and when I met and got to know Lina, my witch as I thought of her, I was, and perhaps still am, generally cynical and disbelieving by and large…

I’ve really no idea how much Lina affected RS and his way of working and living or indeed thinking, but evidently not all that shines is gold, as they say…

When we were supposed to be having our weekly lessons invariably the phone would go intermittently, I would become invisible (to her at least) and she would chat away without any apparent inhibition…

But something which surprised me was, a little, that when I spoke to people about this kind of thing (Lina and her wacky ideas) many were sympathetic to this kind of thinking or approach. In fact on one occasion when I was going into her place, I met a friend’s wife coming out. Strange. Yes, very strange…

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I once had a friend who was unlucky. Not like most people are unlucky. But really unlucky! Everything in M’s life was unlucky, and she always seemed to have problems and arguments with people. Not with me, as I say she was a friend, and we got on very well.

For me everything that Lina did was completely new, and… well incredibly wacky. I remember her telling me about a therapy she gave which was called re-birthing.

I would pop along to her studio once a week, and we would have lessons. My English lessons are I suppose pretty normal, I try not to be too boring and try to be entertaining, as much as possible, but inevitably it is necessary to have your student understand certain little concepts, and sometimes things need to be remembered somewhere in the old grey matter somewhere along the line…