You can dowse with anything dangling from a string, (although pretty crystals are always appealing). The theorists say that it works through your subconscious mind (which already holds the answer to what you want to know) causing very slight twitches in your muscles, causing the pendulum to move.

HOWEVER

Here's a good one to try...
Establish what are the "yes" and "no" movements for you, and then, while holding the pendulum, get somebody else to ask a question mentally; a question with a definite yes or no answer, and which they already know the answer to (eg, am I sitting down). Then see what answer you get. I was in the pub last week, and my friend asked 9mentally) if it was her daughter's boyfriend's birthday, and got the answer "no". She then said it was wrong, and hadn't worked...until her daughter reminded her that Rob's birthday had actually been they day before!

I, too, went round to the PO this lunchtime, only to find it cordoned off by the police. There had been an armed robbery! In our little village!

The electrical work on the house is nearly done, and more wallpaper has been stripped. Goodo!

Andrea