I would like, ah, if I may, ...to take you on a strange journey

Congratulations, you are visitor to enter the timewarp.

It seemed a fairly ordinary night when Brad Majors and his fiancee Janet Weiss two young, normal, healthy kids, left Denton that late November evening, to visit a Dr. Everett Scott , ex-tutor, now friend to both of them.

Sue came from an innovative family of engineers, one of her paternal ancestors patented many improvements to the single lens reflex camera and her father designed the steel rope crash barriers seen on many motorways. Peter Mayor Campbell gives some information about her great-great-grandfather. Her mother's side were farmers, and her cousin now runs a brewery. Sue used to run a doll's hospital, repairing and restoring old-fashioned and antique dolls and teddy bears until ill-health forced an early retirement, prior to her death.

John was into alternative lifestyles and therapies - he has an ITEC in Anatomy, Physiology and Massage, and is trained in Aromatherapy, Hypnosis and Touch for Health. John earns his living managing computer networks for the Post Office (recently "outsourced" to BT) and is based in Chesterfield, the link takes you to the web pages he created for the area. He now seems to spend more time beekeeping.

It's true there were dark storm clouds. Heavy, black, and pendulous, toward which they were driving.

In 1995 we bought a house off an elderly couple who could have lied for England. For a qualified surveyor, the vendor seemed singularly lacking in knowledge of building defects, even when they were pointed out to him, and the fact that the Building Society's surveyor was well known to him might explain why our survey did not reveal the countless defects that later emerged.

The house has an acre of land, major structural faults and subsidence and we have yet to unpack all our books and stuff as we're too busy doing building work and gardening. According to the vendors, the house was built by George Stephenson for William Howe in Clay Cross in North East Derbyshire, and we live here with our son Tim.

It's true, also, that the spare tire they were carrying was badly in need of some air, but, uh, they being normal kids, on a night out... well, they weren't going to let a storm spoil the rest of their evening, were they?

Our timewarp contains an John's academic synopsis, some information about the area we live in, and especially about George Stephenson, and William Howe, and now includes the new improved North East Derbyshire A to Z. There's some information about Hebden Bridge where we used to live and both John's biography and Sue's biography.

It was a night out they were going to remember... for a very long time.

Web links to areas that interest us

• Hypnosis: The workings of the mind and its relationship to health, both physical and mental
• NLP is the study of the structure of subjective experience
• Touch for Health: By pressing a limb, before and after being exposed to a thought, question, or substance, the body is said to reveal long-hidden informationabout our individual strengths, weaknesses, beliefs, and needs for healing.
• Massage: some of the physiological effects of massage brieflyexamined
• Beekeeping is something we took up recently, and after a shaky start now have a small amount of honey.
• Religious Society of Friends: Quakers believe that there is that of God in every person, that the Holy Spirit leads and guides us today, just as it did in Biblical times, and follow the four Quaker testimonies of peace, equality, simplicity, and integrity.
• Disfigurement Guidance homepage a constructive use for my free Demon webspace
• DollFinder One place to start if you're looking for web resources about dolls.
• and our latest interest beekeeping.

There are some who say that life is an illusion, and reality is but a figment of the imagination. If this is so, then Brad and Janet are quite safe.....

Some NLP aphorisms we like

• No one is wrong or broken. People work perfectly to accomplish what they are currently accomplishing.
• People already have all the resources they need.
• Behind every behavior is a positive intention.
• Every behavior is useful in some context.
• The meaning of a communication is the response you get.
• If you aren't getting the response you want, do *something* different.
• There is no such thing as failure. There is only feedback.
• In any system, the element with the most flexibility exerts the most influence.
• The map is not the territory.
• If someone can do something, anyone can learn it.
• You cannot fail to communicate.

...however, the sudden departure of their host... and his creation... into the seclusion of his somber bridal suite had left them feeling both apprehensive and uneasy, a feeling which grew as the other guests departed, and they were shown to their separate rooms.

About John, psychology, women's studies and alternative therapies

John's biography

Sue's biography

North East Derbyshire

George Stephenson

William Howe

Hebden Bridge

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Last updated: September 2005