David Bale

17/01/2025

16/01/2025

Did a show for Eaten Belles Womens' Institute. they say on their website - join them if you like laughter and cake. So I thought you'd like to see a picture of the cake - and a lady who magically named a dog ! Everything catered for in a Womens' Institute !

07/01/2025

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and are having a great 2025, everyone.
Here are just some of the people, at my show for the Larch Grove Community Centre Christmas Party on the evening of 20th December. As you can see - quite a festive event !

24/12/2024

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Have a happy, wonderful and glittering Christmas, everyone.

20/12/2024

Walk-around table magic, again, to warm people up for Terry's Christmas function at The Willow Café and Function Rooms in Peterborough Central Park. Here they all are - and here's Terry Rowe, who organises the whole thing - Christmas music and carols, three wonderful singers, Christmas dinner and dancing. Wonderful !

16/12/2024

So ... the other night, the privilege of doing a few tricks to ( hopefully ! ) brighten up part of the evening at the Friends of Rock Road Christmas Party. Here's an interesting thing - as an ex-librarian - giving my first performance of magic in a library !
Very tasty mince pies... and lovely people, of course.

15/12/2024

31st October : The Friends of Rock Road Library asked me along to perform in the open air, in the dark, for people who were coming in after trick or treating on Hallowe'en Night. A lovely lot of people and a pretty unusual experience ! Frankly, it's surprising that anyone ever came near me, looking like that.

27/10/2024

You must be all wondering where i've been. Firstly, I'm so sorry that it's taken so long to reply and say thank you to all you wonderful people who've made me feel so very special. I've been a bit panicky - and that's putting it mildly ! - over a show which I've been preparing for next Halloween Night. Nothing else has been in my mind.
Reading your messages have made me grin ear to ear. Thank you so much - and just to say : it was a great day with a family dinner here ( Italian birthday cake of sponge fruit and cream from the restaurant down the road ), punting on the river, brunch at the café at the end of the garden on Sunday, a baroque music concert the other way down the road, visiting the Archeology Museum, and the company of sons, partners, grandchildren, relatives. Not forgetting Anne, who stunningly organised the whole thing.
Thank you so much and I hope you have a great year ahead, too.
I'm luckier than I deserve.
All my love ######

27/09/2024

Maggie Smith, perhaps my all time admired, loved ( I wanted to marry her at one time ! ), funny, skilled and great actresses, has just died. I saw her in Othello at The National, in 1965, and admired and adored her from then on. Rest in peace and thank you for all those years of joyous performances. Our lives will now have a little less sparkle.

04/09/2024

Hello! My friend VNC Automotive is fundraising for Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust. Here’s their JustGiving page, if you’d like to donate:

Help VNC Automotive raise money to support Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust

15/08/2024

A magic show preceded by table walk-around magic for Memory Club and Café, last Wednesday 7th August. A return visit after a long time. It was great to see everyone again. And what a welcome ! And what lovely people ! Tried out some new tricks on them - there were children there as well as older people. We had a good time ! ❤❤️❤

25/07/2024

Yesterday, I performed for the Forget-me-Not Dementia Group Peterborough at The Willow Café and Function Rooms Central Park, once again. Lovely to see them all - and Penny Fisher, their organiser, who couldn't be there at my last visit. So I asked her to be a volunteer, this time ! Great place ( of course ! ), great people ( of course ! )

22/05/2024

I played a magic show for Larch Grove Grove Community Centre in Peterborough, this afternoon. What a friendly, happy place ! It poured with rain outside, but lots of people came in spite of the weather, and I tried out a new, updated ( better ) version of an old trick on them ( they didn't know that ! ). To my delight and surprise, Carol Hamilton, at the centre, rang me when I got back to book me for their Christmas party. Hurray !

03/05/2024

A magic show - on the last afternoon of April - for the warm, generous and enthusiastic people at Kingfisher Court in Stanground, again organised by - and thank you to - Ken Chung.
Kingfisher Court is a modern, bright place with flats which have glass fronted balconies, gardens and restaurant. As you can see in the photo ! 🙂

25/04/2024

I returned to Werrington Social Club on Tuesday 23rd April to do a second magic show, after the one last year. Ken Chung, who organised it, has a lovely group of people who come from all over the local area, and it was especially good to meet some friends in the audience from last time. 🙂

21/04/2024

Congratulations, Nicole ! Stormed through the London Marathon today in 6 hours 10 minutes ! What a friend to have !
( Don't know who that is that she picked up, but looks suspiciously like her trainer - and ours - Terry )
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09/04/2024

( Image by starline on Freepik )

Wishing you all peace, happiness and a great celebration with friends and family.

28/03/2024

Wishing everyone an Easter of peace, contemplation and joy.