Quite a local trip for me, just a few miles up the road to Harlow, to perform at the 40th Birthday party of Laura Higgs, a local fitness instructor. Friends and family had been invited to a Bar- B – Q in her back garden to celebrate the occasion, with a wide range of age groups to entertain. Guests were greeted with a DVD of Laura’s recent charity tandem parachute jump from god knows how many thousand feet! So mix and ‘Mingle and Magic’ was the order of the day,
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A phone call from Rick Mallett asking me to perform at his wife, Carina’s, 50th Birthday party, took me to the delightful venue of Cuddington Golf Club, set in 166 acres of beautiful Surrey downland. It was a lovely cool evening as about 80 members of family and friends gathered to celebrate with Carina, many of whom took advantage of the weather and gathered outside, enjoying the lovely views over London, the Wembley arch could be clearly seen, and that was 16 miles away. I mingled outside among the guests
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The world today is one of social media, and mobile communications. How many times have we heard a mobile phone go off at an inopportune moment, perhaps mid show in a theatre, or even among the congregation at a wedding. It’s always worth reminding people to turn them off or switch them onto silent. I quite often get filmed performing magic, by guests at weddings or other events using the cameras on mobile phones, its just part of every day life. However, if any of you are up and coming
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As you may have read in my last post, I was delighted to be asked by Angela Ashman, the Senior Wedding Coordinator at one of the Wedding Venues where I am a recommended Magician, to perform at her husbands cricket club Summer Ball. Today I received the following email from Angela, I should explain that one of the guests I performed for was called Declan, who really enjoyed my magic. Later in the evening he won the ‘Heads and Tails’ game and generously used the money to buy ‘shots’ for
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Last night saw me performing at Sawbridgeworth Cricket Club’s Annual Ball, which was held in a marque on the pitch itself. The theme of the evening was the ‘Best of British’ and the marque was beautifully decorated in a red, white and blue colour scheme, including the lights which lit up the side of the marque in those colours. Union Jacks were in abundance, with memorabilia depicting famous objects associated with Britain, such as double decker buses, and the tables, rather than simply being numbered where named after iconic British
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