In a quiet backwater of South Wales during the Second World War an evacuee a lively and adventurous boy arrived into the author's timid and mundane life bringing into it a sense of magic of freshness and excitement. His was the stimulus which encouraged Shirley to step beyond the bounds of normal perception into a world of raised awareness and enhanced abilities and which would prepare her for more in-depth more challenging experiences later in her life. This is the story of those early important years.