A lot of the relatives were a bit on edge. I think they expected to see a lot of Ouija boards around and severed hands coming out of the walls.

We stayed in the George and Pilgrim Hotel in Glastonbury on our wedding night. We specially requested the Nun's Cell, which has wonderful Mediaeval artifacts - a four-poster bed, stained glass windows-and, best of all, is haunted by nuns. We stayed up all night hoping one of them would pay us a visit, but we were disappointed. No one turned up.

Soon Jane was pregnant with Danielle, who is an extremely psychic child. Because she has grown up with what we do, she takes the spirit world completely for granted. If Danielle sees auras and colours around people, just like Jane and I. If any of her friends wants to pop into the house when we're working, she says:' Oh no, you can't go in now Daddy (or Mummy) is talking to the spirits.' I dread to think what the neighbours think.

When I'm out with her I'll offer to buy her sweets, but Danielle says: 'It's all right, I think Mum is buying me some now.' And she's right.

Danielle is the only one of our children living with us and the only one who is psychic. Celeste, my daughter from my first marriage, is 16 and Jane has two children from her other marriage, Justin, 23 and 19-year-old Chantal. (Update: Ages now different since article first appeared in the Daily Mail)

Jane and I are able to send out psychic thoughts to each other. The other day I popped to the shops to get some washing up liquid, and ended up coming back with some silver polish, too- which isn't the sort of thing you usually buy. It turned out Jane had sent me a thought asking me to get some.

We have great telepathy. Often I'll come home and say to Jane: 'Oh you met your friend so-and-so today'- and of course she has.

Telepathy works best when two people are in a cheerful frame of mind. Aggression brings down the barriers. So if Jane and I have had a row, we obviously sense the hostility and we can't penetrate the barrier. But that's probably not a bad thing, I suppose.

When the TV news is about to come on, we play a game when we each have to guess what the lead story that day is going to be. We often guess the same thing- something like a plane crash or a natural disaster. You'd be amazed how many times we're right.

William' our Dachshund/Jack Russell cross is also psychic. He's 16 now and very lively for his age. He sees things, he's very tuned in. (Update: William has now passed over- and Jane has seen his ghost from time to time. I am sure he is horrified to see that we now have three cats: - who also appear to have linked into the psychic energies that surround us)

He stays with Jane when she does her consultations and sees the aura around the person she's with. If he doesn't like them, he growls Jane takes notice of him because he has a sixth sense and knows if there is something bad about a person.

Often Jane and I are upstairs and we'll want William to join us, so we send a mental command out to him and he comes running up the stairs. When either of us is on our way home from somewhere, he goes and sits by the door until we arrive. It can be any time of day; there's no pattern to it.

When he was younger he used to go and find Jane when she went out. He always knew where she was. He's quite amazing, really.

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