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Exactly; my 'ghosts' don't need an exorcist, they need a counselor with experience in cognitive behavioural therapy...

Thank you

I’m glad to say it went well enough, we seemed to get on ok. My next appointment isn’t for a month, but that's either because that's all that's available or that's how often she sees people. ☺

Oh, being counseled. If someone's coming to me for help, they're in a whole world of hurt...

Love it! My son loves origami, but I’m stuck at the paper planes stage (damn good at it, though)

I would adopt Jacob right now, if I didn't live an ocean away.....

Fingers crossed another opportunity presents itself soon. And I know how you feel about posting on here; my hair will be ungrayed before I will be in here 😉

MST3K live? You have no idea how envious I am right now....

Fred’s so cute!

Yes, that's a cooker and no, it wasn't turned on!

I have no wine and I am jealous...

I am so sorry.

I’ve got my first counselling appointment this Monday lunchtime, hopefully it won't be as awkward as I'm worried it will be. 

Thank you, I am laughing at this way more than is decent.

Working in a hospital, I feel like I should have a dozen of these stories but I only have a couple and they’re really weak ones. Like the night I was struggling to get a patient onto a commode in a room with a broken light, and their TV spontaneously turned on (to static, of course) giving us enough light to see. A TV

Just makes me wish for another instalment in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series

Agreed; I pretty much only post on the open threads here. 

They showed a shortened (but not sanitised) version of this in my primary school during a book week, and I remember a parade of crying children being led out throughout. Some of the teachers used to get us to lie on the floor and do what sounds like relaxation/hypnosis exercises with us ( “you feel like you’re sinking

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From when they thought scaring the living piss out of kids was the best approach to Public Information Films.....

Ah, when I was a kid the BBC was showing the Wombles in their usual summer holiday morning slot, and something must have gone wrong with the tape because it slowed to a stop, audio distorting and turning an innocent moment of children’s TV into creepy terror. I didn't watch TV for a week after...