There was a lot of psychic activity in the house yesterday. It began with my necklace. I always put it back in its box, even if I’m not all that tidy about it. But today I went to wear it only to find the chain (and it’s a thick, flat one) had been knotted near the hasp. Not loosely knotted, either, but pulled quite tight, so I had a job to undo it. An impossibility if all you’re doing is putting the chain back in its box. I know – I tried it several times to see if I could even come close to achieving it.

So why and how did this happen. I mentioned in this blog back on the 2nd August that I am pretty certain we have a house brownie, and I’ve noticed sometimes my jewellery goes missing from its box. In other words, I’ll wear a pair of earrings, put them away at night, only to find one is missing a few days later. Since Mr Penry doesn’t wear long dangly earrings (I think I’d notice if he did) and since the box I put them in is shut up tight, I don’t understand how one of them will go missing.

I know there’s probably a correlation here with missing socks in the laundry, but earrings are usually harder to lose (at least in my experience) and it’s only happened to me since moving here.

The other bit of psychic activity was also in the bedroom yesterday, later in the afternoon. I often hang glass ‘crystal’ type ornaments in my window to catch the colours of the rainbow when the sun shines on them. My bedroom window was open yesterday, and we were down in the garden when I heard this loud, persistent knocking sound – the crystal was banging on the window. There was nobody in the bedroom at the time.

Now the obvious first thought to spring to mind is that (a) it was the wind from outside or (b) because some other open window in the house had created a draught within the house. But the objection to it being the wind outside was that there was no wind. I had a line of washing out and it wasn’t moving. As for the second option, if there had been a draught in the house, the curtains in my bedroom would have moved, if only a little. They were closed behind the crystal anyway, which would have lessened any draught, but there was no sign of the curtains moving.

Another thing was that once the crystal stopped banging the window, it began rotating quite quickly, something I’ve not noticed before. Later on in the day, I looked up to check what the crystal was doing and it was just swaying very gently, as it usually does.

I’m not trying to convert anyone to my way of thinking here, just telling what happened. They were odd little events, and I suspect they may have had a psychic explanation, although I'll always keep checking for more natural ways to reproduce these things.