May 2012 saw the first sitting of a new mediumship development circle in Eastbourne, East Sussex.

We sit in Liz's fully blacked-out converted garage. I sit as the medium with Liz as sitter and we are sometimes joined by other guest sitters.

We treat each sitting as an experiment with no expectations from us and ask our Spirit Team to work with us in the most efficient way to produce evidential mediumship to help us understand ourselves and the bigger picture.

Each sitting is recorded, I transcribe the recording verbatim and include in the final report of the transcript any additional unrecorded experiences that Liz and myself remembered from the sitting.

I publish these reports to give people the opportunity to read or listen to the communications and hopefully increase their own understandings.

I welcome any comments or questions and my contact email is nickp7871@gmail.com

It's up to the reader to make up their own mind as to the source of the communications and phenomena reported and hopefully be inspired to set up a development circle to get their own experiences...


...Nick Pettitt


Update 26/10/2014


Before we sat on Monday evening Liz told me about a dream she’d had at the weekend and whether any of it meant anything to me. I commented that Kettering happened to be a town close to a place I often visit and some of it sounded to me like a reference to our ‘cross experiment’ we had done the previous week in the Mercury Experiment sitting. We both ask for guidance in our dreams to help our circles developments so this seemed plausible to me at the time.

After our sitting Liz did some research starting with Kettering and came up with some interesting info which connects to what was said in the second communication on Monday 20/01/2014 most notably the name ‘Eleanor’ which the communicator seemed determined to get through and also ‘holy man he hold the cross’ and ‘he pray for people’

Here’s what Liz wrote about her dream and the information she subsequently looked up…


My dream on Saturday 18th Jan is recorded as follows:

4.20 'Kettering. Some great ring around an area - psychic protection, a woman (is she dealing with an estranged husband) Horizontal rather than vertical. Thick substance - different densities.

Piece of plaid fabric woven by insects. amazing. even a very small hole in it, like a burn, an imperfection. woven by bees - or a colony of insects. I am showing someone'

That’s what I wrote. I remember the plaid/tartan square, it was a small perfect square of woollen fabric, black, grey, red and white and tan colours. in vertical and horizontal stripes, some thicker and some thinner, just like tartan, with two very tiny holes in it, like burns, or insect bites, like woodworm holes.

Kettering info on Wikipedia website.

The information references 'the Eleanor cross'. I looked this up. Near Kettering is a remaining one of a series of 12 crosses, originally sculpted in wood, erected by Edward 1st in 1291=1294, across the East of England, including Northampton where Kettering is, as far as Charing Cross in London. They were in memory of his wife, Eleanor of Castile.  Kettering was also a centre of the wool trade, and cloth industry for a time.
I hadn't heard of the Eleanor crosses, or at least I may have heard of them, but didn't remember them. There was a historical documentary series on TV a few years ago, about Queens of England, and their trouble asserting their power. I may have heard about the crosses then. I think they would have been mentioned, as they were important for the memory of a powerful Queen. I seem to remember that at least one of the documentary series concerned a queen who became estranged from her husband. Whether that was Eleanor, I am not sure.
It would be interesting to know whether that sort of plaid fabric was produced by weavers in Kettering. But at least there really is a strong connection of Kettering with crosses, 12 crosses that were erected as a memorial to Eleanor.

Eleanor of Aquitaine info on Wikipedia website.


It turns out that she was the mother of Eleanor of Castile, and looked after some of her daughters' children, as a grandmother. Eleanor of Aquitaine was also eventually estranged from her royal husband, and imprisoned by him. So she would certainly have needed psychic protection!!! It was her daughter, Eleanor of Castile, whose husband, King Edward 1st, had 12 crosses built. These were, apparently, not for memorial so much as for psychic protection for Eleanor of Castile after her death, so that passers-by would pray for her, and offer prayers for her salvation and protection. Both Eleanors were powerful Queens, in an era when it was not seemly for women to be powerful, and they both paid some penalty for this, and encountered a lot of negativity. They both had lots of children.