The first part : Early Days

Jocks notes A tale of life’s journey 

Hello folks I thought I would write a few notes on my journey through life maybe you will see some comparables with mine in your own quest to make sense of it all. I was born  in 1946 into mining families in Fordel Village Cowdenbeath Fife. Our McArthur family’s roots are steeped in coal dust and are the salt of the earth and the backbone of our Scottish Heritage.

When I was born I health issues and I was promptly dispatched to the sick children’s hospital part of the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh and survived multiple operations and when recovered enough I was placed in the Muirfield children’s home at Gullane  West  Lothian and there I remained until I was School Age after returning home to one of the newly built houses in Halbeath Dunfermline Fife. These houses were beautiful with three bedrooms and a bathroom with a wonder of wonders a WC former to this we had been in a terraced NCB house with no running water and an outside dry privy which was the norm at the time just after the world war two, It is when was at Muirfield I had some of my first memorial experiences however

 I will only speak of one this early in my notes. I would be around four yrs old when a little girl was admitted and we were instantly like brother and sister. Unfortunately the little girl, we will call Poppy passed to the other side of life and I did not know any different and continued to see her and play as we had always done. The nurses were shock horror! they accused me of telling fibs and I was castigated for it. This was my first steep learning curve to say nothing about these strange matters which I now know in a different light as a dedicated spiritualist medium and tutor

Second part to follow ; School-days