Welcome to Roon Soup, a podcast about Magic, Culture and the Paranormal, coming to you from Sunny West London.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host. Enjoy. Today on Roon Soup we have a very special Christmas or holiday episode for you and so

without further ado rather than from West London coming to you from the other side of the world, Newcastle

Australia, my mother the Saigonaut, Tricia White.

How are you?

I'm very well.

And welcome to everybody else who may be listening.

Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas, there, straight from Australia where it was warm yesterday, it's now cold.

It's actually genuinely 20 degrees Celsius colder today than it was yesterday.

That's Australia.

Yeah, that's true.

Well speaking of, kind of.

So, Mother, were you a weird kid?

I didn't think so maybe other people did. But yeah, it's probably a little bit different.

Yes. Imaginary friends, any of that kind of thing? I guess the earliest experience of being a little different was an old saint and all souls day and I went to a Catholic school and the nuns had us going

into the church to pray for all souls, the lost souls etc to bring them out of limbo.

And I'm perfectly praying and I'm looking up at the altar and seeing the angels on the altar.

And I came up, we're going around in and out in and out in and out of the church, but you had to go in

and out, couldn't just stay there. Each entry made a new soul,

released a new soul and I said to the nuns,

oh look at all the lovely angels on the altar. Aren't they beautiful? Of course they then

trumped me. You know, don't make up lies, that sort of stuff. So I then thought nobody else must be seeing

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