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Birthday Breakfast
I have often wondered how people make heart shapes though I agree this is more like an onion. I found a tutorial, latte art for beginners: how to pour heart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiefJJv-Qho
We went to a restaurant called Soulshine, which is at 76 South Street. At the main road intersection walk South and you’ll find it about 100 meters on the right. I do love the ambience and it lifted my mood to see the brightly colored painted fence on the outside, by the way, the chef on the right is not studying their permanently, I’ve just caught the moment when he entered.
Not quite the perfect breakfast but the best the house could do. If you want croissants it’s a good thing to turn up early because once they run out that’s it and we were there about 09:30 if I recall. We would normally choose salmon which they did not have and scrambled egg which they did not have the staff to do so we made the best of what they could offer. The fat of the fried egg didn’t quite go well with the croissant but never mind.
We decided to spend the day wandering around the shops, and there are plenty of interesting ones, and one of the first was a long established shop devoted to art objects, material to do with the sea, more or less fitting in with the Jurassic Coast theme.
I had a chat with the part time person and our chat turned to the topic of Frome. It was relevant and interesting so I recorded it. This is the first time I have recorded a conversation verbatim but I’m doing it so people can realise that when you engage people on a random basis it can be incredibly useful and blessing for both. Here is the transcript
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Shop:Â Frome has always had a reputation for being a difficult place, really beautiful, but always had a reputation for being a difficult place, attracting quite difficult people and I didn’t want to say it has a dark energy, because I don’t quite believe in light or dark. I do believe in light Absolutely. But where there’s light, there has to be dark. So it’s not, I don’t want to use that as a pejorative term, but descriptive. It is a descriptive term. It has an energy that I think goes back probably a long, long time.
I look into the history because I never thought about it. And I think there are lots of places, and in Somerset actually, there are lots of places like that. I don’t know whether it is because of the flatness, because it is maybe before in historical times. There have been tsunamis along the Somerset coast, with medieval paintings of people in trees high up. There has been trauma on the land, and because of that it’s black, a lot of it. There probably has been years of flooding.
Brian: Yes, and I find a certain attractiveness about this area. And I could say, if I had a best part of a million pounds, I would find a decent house, but it’s anything under 400,000 is a council house really. But we love coming here, and for reasons that I can say there’s a lot of humans per square mile, there seem to be a lot of community activities as well.
Shop: it is one of those strange places. Now the energies in Bridport, for whatever reason, are good. And I know because some energy lines go through this shop, this shop has amazing energies. It’s very nourishing and very protective, and it’s amazing. And a lot of properties have that, but there are pockets in Bridport that don’t have that, and they are hidden. They are very well hidden from the people who write articles in the Observer about how wonderful it is, of course,
Shop: we have those areas too, but there is a real community spirit here for things to do, like alternative therapies, dance groups, singing groups, gardening groups,
Brian: Well, I agree. I’m a psychic, and I gave a woman a reading here in the town, and she didn’t bat an eyelid. That’s pretty good. But the atmosphere here in the shop is better than many churches I can think of, I think you’ve got a sort of filter system here where unwelcome forces stay outside.
Shop: Indeed they do sometimes and I watch them. Sometimes I actually watch people come through the door and they leave, and it makes me smile. What do you think? It’s not on the vibe. because it’s probably an energy that’s just too big for them, and it’s like when we have parasites, like physical parasites, you try to get your parasitic load back down to reasonable balance.
Those parasites don’t like it, and they start fighting. They start fighting big time. They’ll produce lots of chemicals. And I think that some people, if they have some sort of energy which is either attached to them or not right for them, dissonant, they wont love the shop.
Brian: We were in Glastonbury for Lammas, and there was a guy playing a harp, and he said, all the nasty people, keep away. I thought that’s a great thing to do.
Shop: That’s interesting, because, you know harp sound, I mean in a part in Bibles or in stories, art is always angelic it’s always had a high vibration.
But I will follow up what you said about certain places. And I think if you do, and it may be, for example, it may be that they were places of execution. It could have been that they had a jail where they executed. Like crooked (?) is another place, beautiful little town just north of Crewkerne, beautiful buildings, really lovely. But you get within a mile of it, and you feel your energy start to go
Brian: it’s all energy. As the Tesla said, it’s all vibration and frequency. There’s nothing else, no.
Shop: there is nothing else in even our dusty, complex plasma clouds, they are still energy and vibration.
Brian: Yes, so I see you (being here managing the shop) as a custodian of this
Shop: I do own it, but not the building, because our lovely landlord, Michael. He owns the building, but we’ve been here four and a half years, although I’ve been shopping in here since it opened as this sort of shop in 1999
Brian:. I think you were called here because of the conversations you can have, the like of which we’re having at the moment. And if you can survive financially. I think there’s a great service, because people will talk to you as they wouldn’t talk to their priest or vicar. You are approachable. And that’s just another pragmatic statement, not a compliment. It’s a statement.
Shop: I’m in here two days a week because I have another business in which I also help people in rather direct and indirect ways, because I’m an employment law solicitor, so I have my practice, and they integrate very well.
Brian: Interesting. They integrate really well.
My purpose in life is I will speak to anyone because we’re all part of God, and I will go up to complete strangers and talk to them as if I’d known them my whole life. I mean, I love it absolutely love it. We have to penetrate the English meniscus, you know, which keeps people away. The idea ‘don’t bother people’. It’s all rubbish. And I say the most extraordinary things. Can’t believe I’m saying it, but they grin, perhaps they grin through fear, but, but I get away with it every time, and I like to cheer people up.
Brian: There was a chat this morning, for example.
Brian: On our way here a chap I met down the road who had first stages of Parkinson’s so he couldn’t open a bottle. So we had a big supportive chat about that and I helped him. And maybe I’m the only person he’s he’ll speak to today, you know, and it’s so important making the difference to people’s lives. There’s nothing more important.
Shop: Do you know there isn’t? And I walked into the shop this morning and I speak to the ‘upstairs’ and say, I need your help, and I need your guidance. And it will I know at some point. I have a very dear friend that I’ve looked after for 20 years or more. She’s having real, real problems.
Brian (gives instant psychic reading) Well, let me, if I may, what is her name? I’ll have a chat with her. Hello, D…… (tunes in) Oh, worst enemy. Her own worst enemy, in a way. Come on, Woman, No, she’s not facing things. This is self punishment, very subtle, I’m afraid. So. I think the way to do it is to be firm and direct with her insofar as she wants to take it. I have a feeling she’s got used to being that way. It’s a sort of attention seeking thing I fear, and so good luck on that one.
Shop: Well, yesterday I spent an hour and a half, and what was worrying was because she left town about a week or so ago. She was basically driven out from in from her Council flat by being surrounded by not very nice people, cannabis smell coming into her flat, which was making her a bit psychotic. She attracts drama, and she cannot find a way of moving from that, because her will has been sapped.
Brian: You can say all you like, it could be completely true, and she’ll just go back again. It’s like being pulled back by elastic, you know. So I think objective compassion is the way to go.
Shop: Well, yesterday she called me because she’s been living homeless in a little car, and she’s it has real bad physical footprint, but I spent an hour and a half convincing her to just give me some time to try and help her with her housing situation, because I know she’s had suicidal thoughts before, but yesterday, she was too calm.
Brian: suspiciously, calm, suspicious, yes, yes. Well, entities, they want, they want to feed off yourself. So they want again.
Shop: That’s the problem. Today, I messaged her yesterday and I said, Today, I can’t, I am not going to say to you, don’t do this. I’m going to say to you, I don’t want you to do this. And I think that if you just had some rest, some peace, and understood that there may be somebody out there who’s willing to help you, you could recover from this. You can, but I’m not. I’m not going to go and call the police, because the last thing you need is to go and be sectioned.
Brian: But you don’t know what her soul contract is.
Shop: You see, I think I have a soul contract with her.
Brian: You may well do, yes, but you’re not Mother Hen of the universe.
Shop: No, I’m not. And she has taught me some amazing lessons. She has taught me, because she is that classic. If you’re not, if you’re not part of her drama, you’re part of the abuse. So she’s taught me then not to be a victim, not to suddenly react by saying, How could she do this to me? After all? So she’s taught me not to do that. It was a major lesson in my life. So I am very grateful, but, I have released her.
Brian: But learning from that, the trick is not to fly too close to the flame as with a moth.Â
Next up was a funeral director’s office who had the clever idea of putting a video in the front window with subtitles thus answering most of the questions and concerns that people have. Some people are too shy to walk in the door so this is really a brilliant way of introducing the service and I went in and told them how good it was.Â
Next up we had lunch at the Arts Centre which you will find about 50 yards south of the information bureau which is also the clock tower of Bridport. I decided to come because I felt that the menu had been written with such love and caring that the food has got to be good to match. Sure enough it was, it was a salad with …. I can’t remember now ….some sort of fish but it was reasonably priced and went down very well.
There is a world of difference between serving people from the heart, and serving people mechanically. The words may be right but if the spirit is not there it sounds rather boring and robot-like.
Next up, The Billy Mumford Gallery (opposite Sainsbury’s DT6 3QU. Here are a few examples of the work there. I noticed that the owner had no website; he said he didn’t because so much work would be involved, and also he reckons that most of his business comes from word of mouth. I said that his main advert was Bridport itself.Â
A couple of shots from various shops and from the street.
I am not sure what you would use there for but they are funny
One heck of a smart bike
This evening I decided to walk to West Bay which is a distance of about two miles. The wind had got up and was keeping away visitors to the local fair and also providing a generous drench of salt water to those venturing on the jetty.
I can’t see much to attract people to stay at West Bay for a week but if you like walking then the coast is yours but watch out for falling rock. Anyway the day ended or I thought it had ended.
I walked back and we had a quiet end of evening except that on the way back I spotted a fish restaurant offering half price Moules Marinières so I persuaded Francoise to come and we ended our day in grand style.
Very good – almost poetic – for a french person.
