More of me talking about… well, me.

From www.creative-choices.co.uk here’s me spouting on about marketing a book in the Internet age.  I should have combed my hair.

Shadowmagic is out in paperback today!!!!!

Buy it in any quality UK bookshop or Amazon.co.uk –

In the USA you can order on Amazon.com

Lenahan on the Radio

There’s actually a radio show (and a podcast) about magic here in the UK.  Host Matt Duggin asked me on and what a lovely time I had.  Listen to my interview here:  http://www.smokeandmirrorsradioshow.com/2009/06/the-magicast-episode-eight/

Oh my god, I’m turning into a birdwatcher!

I can’t help it – look at the birds out here. 

 

Here is a screensaver of photo taken by me (and my Refol Nadene) for all of you twitchers out there. 

If any anyone can name all of the birds in this display – you have too much time on your hands.

JL

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More South Africa Pics

 

Ooooh New Socks

I bought and wore a brand new pair of socks today.  Not because I had to but because I wanted to – and very nice it is indeed.

maybe I should do this every day…..

A Dime Bag of Magic

Yesterday I went to a Sangoma – a South African which doctor.

I asked him if he had any medicine that would produce good luck for the launch of a fantasy novel based on Irish mythology – amazingly enough – he did.  For 10 rand (about a dollar) he prepared me a little baggie of white powder and a dried root.  He instructed me to light the stick so it smoulders then place a pinch of the powder under my tongue, inhale the smoke three times, rub some of the powder over my face then repeated with the smoke. As you all know, I’m Mr Sceptic but I liked this guy and I’m gonna do it.  So you all better buy as many of my paperbacks on August 6th as you can carry, cause if this works they’ll be a collectors item.

I have to perform the magic before I leave South Africa though, cause the baggie looks like a dime bag of crack.

The collective noun for a group of zebras?

I’m in South Africa and just got back from a Safari in a lovely private game reserve a couple of hours north of Cape Town.  With my new camera I feel like the shutter bug I was when I was a teenager.  Here is a lovely pic of a couple of zebra.  (Does anyone know the collective noun for a group of zebra?)  And the hippo shot is my new computer desktop. 

JL

Name this Antlope

Sorry got no socks left but I never got around to sending them anyway.

John L

No, Danny La Rue is on tonight.

Danny La Rue died this week.  .

For you yanks, Danny was the first British drag act (he preferred to be called A Comic in a Frock) ever to break through into popular culture.  Here in the 60’s he was one of the UK’s highest paid performers.

I did a cruise once with Danny (not to be confused with cruising with Danny) he was a lovely man.  On our second day, in the Bay of Biscay, we sailed into a force-ten storm.  I have never been in weather like this.  It was like being thrown off the top of a rollercoaster every four minutes.  Everyone on the ship was sick – including many of the crew.

During the worst of it, the cruise director called me in my cabin and said, “You’re on tonight.”

“Oh no I’m not,” I replied between retching into a trash can, “Danny La Rue is on tonight.  Is he sick?”

“No, the cruise director said, “but he can’t stand in his high-heels in this weather.”

I did the show to an audience made up mostly of elderly deaf passengers.  (Apparently if your middle ear is gone you don’t get sea-sick.)  After the storm Danny bought me a bottle of champagne.

RIP Danny