Random Play by Graham Reid

Congratulations ...always like your writing and reviews....and just in time for those thinking about getting in early for that Christmas shopping! Well done.

List of levitating saints

Saint Alphonsus Liguori
Saint Archangela Girlani
Saint Catherine of Siena
Saint Christina the Astonishing
Blessed Christina von Stommeln
Saint Edmund Rich[4]
Saint Francis of Paola
Saint Francis Fasani
Saint Francis Xavier
Saint Gemma Galgani
Saint Gerard Majella
Saint Holos - Armenian Saint and "faith healer" ( Armenian Apostolic Church )
Saint Ignatius Loyola
Saint John Bosco
Saint John Joseph of the Cross
Saint Joseph of Cupertino[5]
Saint Ludgardis of Tongeren
Saint Luke Thaumaturgus (Luke the Younger)[6]
Saint Martin de Porres
Saint Michael Garicoits
Blessed Miguel Pro
Saint Paul of the Cross
Saint Peter Claver
Saint Peter of Alcantara
Saint Philip Neri
Saint Teresa of Avila
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Saint Seraphim of Sarov.

There used to be a lot of flying christians, nowadays not so much.
Curious. In the present climate mebbe throwing a bone to the babybeamers turning all conservative just like their parents, would have been the way to go. Saintly idiot perhaps?

Spring is here, let the summer reading begin. I have a list your book is high on it.

Good on you Graham, and good luck with it!

There are those who are tireless self-promoters and those who promote themselves (which is what they put into their work), and you are clearly the latter. (Does that say what I want it to say?) Promote away!

Let's see, music, travel, is there a novel locked up in there somewhere as well?

Levitation...or not?

At the front of his very funny memoir Adolf Hitler, My Part in His Downfall, Spike Milligan wrote, if my memory is correct, “After Puckoon I swore I’d never write another book. This is it.”

I have written another book

Ah, but does your new one have the Last Turkey in the Shop or the White Eared Elephant in it?

Very pleased that my blog-->book software was of some use to you, Graham. And very happy for the opportunity to have an early look at 'The Idiot Boy...". It's a great read, folks -- particularly the title piece, which is a real cracker!

I thought I would buy both books together however one is available through some sort of Amplifier shopfront and the other is available directly through Publicaddress Books...can this be simplified?

Good luck with the new book.

Good luck with the new book.

Yeah.

But if the title of this post is a reference to the mid-70s series of BBC television plays, I'm not really getting the allusion =)

But if the title of this post is a reference to the mid-70s series of BBC television plays, I'm not really getting the allusion =)

Well I suppose it is either that or the Simple Minds song.

Or the British Lord Chancellor 1918-22 , who I believe coined the phrase.

An allusion to the prized tenements of Birkenhead?

Good for you. I own a copy of Postcards from Elsewhere and re-read it recently, so I'm looking forward to the new one.

I enjoyed listening to your conversation with Kim Hill on the weekend, although I didn't hear the whole thing. Felt rather pleased with myself for having worked out it was you as she didn't give your name till quite a while after I tuned in.

Talk of prizes always reminds me of a Billy Connolly show I went to some time after he'd missed out on a bunch of awards for Mrs Brown. I don't remember much else of it, but his "gimme th' fookin' shiny thing!" still has its place in our household's collection of catchphrases...