tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13201294433243504512024-03-12T17:43:28.081-07:00The Lawrence LionsA children's picture book about the extraordinary event that took place in Lawrence, Otago, NZ in 1978, when the lions escaped from the circus.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320129443324350451.post-58117045370268206512020-06-19T01:41:00.004-07:002020-06-19T01:41:55.787-07:00The lions still roam <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Lawrence Lions books are still available for purchase. If you would like to purchase a copy please email thelawrencelions@gmail.com</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />It is fantastic to have this story to help keep the story of the Lawrence Lions alive for future generations.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320129443324350451.post-31166946559305309872018-03-30T15:34:00.001-07:002018-10-10T16:55:57.335-07:00The day lions roamed the streets<img alt="" id="id_156a_a25c_d6ba_4c16" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-VywkSVWmSUg/Wr67kL4l9zI/AAAAAAAAA4w/9ZcAF7Hh32kJgOI1KRJqSW0sHWNfyuY7gCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" style="height: auto; width: 353px;" title="" tooltip="" /><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320129443324350451.post-11185257931080524942018-03-30T15:31:00.001-07:002018-10-10T16:56:30.033-07:0040th Anniversary marked <br />
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Premier rugby team is practising. It would be a perfect night for a circus! </span></div>
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Hard to believe Carlos' circus was performing at Simpson Park, Lawrence 39
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The Lawrence Lions book is still available through Trade Me or the Lawrence
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320129443324350451.post-12288315004928567602016-03-30T00:24:00.003-07:002016-03-30T00:24:59.394-07:0038 years ago today...<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">This evening 38 years ago some extra guests took part in the Lawrence Rugby Club training..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Excellent to see the Lawrence Lions story inspiring children to write. Well done Romahapa School.</i></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320129443324350451.post-18458447231716526292014-06-03T02:41:00.001-07:002014-06-03T02:44:01.215-07:00Truth is Stranger than Fiction<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Occasionally I get some interesting emails regarding 'The Lawrence Lions' none more so than the following... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><i><b>Hi there, I wonder if you can help me. I had no idea about the Lawrence Lions and while recently visiting Lawrence took this phot</b></i></span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; line-height: 20px;"><i><b>o of what looks like a very small lion cage in a farm yard near Weatherstons. I posted it on my blog jokingly saying "I wonder where the lion escaped to" and one of my subscribers then told me about the Lawrence Lions. Truth sure is stranger than fiction!! </b></i><br /><br />Please take a look at Shellie's blog by clicking the photo below. To see some truly magnificent photos of Lawrence at its best. (Click Gabriel's Gully Lawrence on the blog Archive for the photos)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are visiting Dunedin take time to visit the Lawrence Lions, Sultan and Sonia at the Otago Museum's Animal Attic - still looking good 35 years on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are driving through to Central Otago stop off in Lawrence the town that the lions escaped in. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visit the Museum for a dose of history, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Walk around Gabriel's Gully the site of New Zealand's first payable gold field</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visit the Anthem House where the NZ National Anthem music was composed!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cycle on the newest bike trail in NZ, (NB that New Zealand's first bike was also made in Lawrence! )</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Shop till you drop at the best gift shops in the district</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take time to linger in Lawrence</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...our famous little town for so many reasons.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320129443324350451.post-8725473328124741572013-06-11T21:38:00.000-07:002013-06-14T03:21:43.789-07:00Sultan and Sonia join the Sleep-Over<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="clear: left; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last week Sultan and Sonia received some visitors late at night when the Otago Museum had closed! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Waitahuna School pupils stayed at the museum for a sleep-over and during the night they quietly crept through the dark corridors to the Animal Attic trying not to set off the alarms. (Similar to a scene out of Mission Impossible - but not quite that quiet!)</span></div>
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<span lang="en-NZ" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; language: en-NZ; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-NZ; mso-armenian-font-family: Verdana; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-currency-font-family: Verdana; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Verdana; mso-default-font-family: Verdana; mso-greek-font-family: Verdana; mso-hebrew-font-family: Verdana; mso-latin-font-family: Verdana; mso-latinext-font-family: Verdana; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: Verdana;">I thought you may be interested to read a story that featured in <strong>The Press</strong> on 26th December. It is written by Mike Crean who used to live in Lawrence in the 70's. To some of you it may bring back some memories of Lawrence. Click on the photo to read the article.</span><span lang="en-NZ" style="language: en-NZ; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320129443324350451.post-90966967840956871782012-12-19T17:48:00.001-08:002012-12-19T18:01:05.437-08:00Merry Christmas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="en-NZ" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; language: en-NZ; mso-ansi-language: en-NZ; mso-armenian-font-family: Verdana; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-currency-font-family: Verdana; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Verdana; mso-default-font-family: Verdana; mso-greek-font-family: Verdana; mso-hebrew-font-family: Verdana; mso-latin-font-family: Verdana; mso-latinext-font-family: Verdana; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A huge thank you for your support of The Lawrence Lions Book since its launch in September. The book has made a big splash in Lawrence and is making ripples around the rest of New Zealand. The feed-back received has been really appreciated. Our newest stockists are Whitcoulls Dunedin, Book City Take a Note (Centre City) and Alexandra Paperplus. If your local store hasn’t got it, feel free to ask them to stock it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>I was surprised to get this lovely email tonight from John Darby who was responsible for getting the Lawrence Lions for the Otago</strong> <strong>Museum. Luckily the book has already been printed as some of his comments conjure up some interesting pictures!</strong></span><br />
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congratulations on your little book, I managed to buy a copy when I recently
went through Lawrence. I do like it, especially the illustrations. Not sure if
the following is of any interest, but I was the person that negotiated the
Lawrence Lions for the museum. There are one or two quite interesting stories
behind the acquisition that I doubt that have been recorded and these may be of
interest to you.</span></span></div>
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problem with the Department of Agriculture who ordered</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">their destruction by incineration, initially believing that the animals
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animals had been touring NZ for the last year or so; I had to work my way up
the hierarchy ladder until</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I found someone who
would agree that they could go to OM. My last contact</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">was the Ministry of Ag Head office in Wellington.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">A good day passed before I could get agreement for OM to have them,
being</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">very much aware that the animals would be slowly
decomposing and that the</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">longer they were out of a freezer, the less likely
we would be able to have</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">them taxidermied. It took almost a full day of
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Though I left Dunedin early,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I found that the
circus wanted to have a sort of "funeral service" for the</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">lions and this was to be conducted by the local minister after the
afternoon</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">performance, which from memory was at 4pm, a time
frame not anticipated. By</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">the way, I think they called themselves Circus
Carlos, not Carlos Circus.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">There was a certain
pathos about that afternoons performance, particularly </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">as two of the
performers were the children of the circus owner, two boys, one about 9, the
other about 11. Their performance was one of juggling on a foot high rope which
really did not work as they frequently fell off or dropped balls, but more
usually both. In later years the boys became known as the notorious Harris Gang
of Christchurch</span></span></div>
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lions were loaded into my Ford Transit Van. I might</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">say that at this stage the smell from them was extraordinary,
(carnivores</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">start to decompose very quickly, they had been
covered in a tarpaulin all </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">day in the sun). With
all windows open, I drove out of Lawrence and about 20 minutes out of Lawrence
as I was following a Newman's bus, it went off the road and ran into a ditch
(blown front tyre). I pulled over and approached the driver to offer help. The
driver had quite a bad cut on his leg, insisted that he was fine, but could a
couple of the ladies sit in my car (one was quite hysterical).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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OK, but I had a couple of lions in the back! All the chatter and talk on the
bus stopped immediately, and I then qualified my comment by saying that they
were dead. The bus was full of what appeared to be American Tourists and it
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the States there will be hundreds of mostly Polaroid images of the passengers
as they posed for countless photographs of two dead lions in the back of my
van. I do recall how delighted the bus driver was as this kept the passengers
occupied until a relief bus arrived and he sort of hinted that this was all
part of the tour experience and that they would not be charged extra.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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almost dark by the time I got to the Museum, much later</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">than I had hoped. I had arranged with Polarcold on Portsmouth Drive to
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museum staff had all finished</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">for the day. I slid
the animals out of the van in what was then the </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">courtyard at the back
of the museum and left them on the ground overnight. Problem was how to get
them to the freezer. At that time I was a qualified kayak instructor and we
used to invade Moana Pool every Saturday morning and we had the pool to
ourselves until about 7.30. I then arranged for a number of our club members to
come to the museum after our session was finished and lift the lions onto a
trailer so that I could get them to the freezer. The point of this story was
that I asked them to be very careful and not to grab the lions by their fur,
for it was already releasing. If you look </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">carefully on the right
shoulder of Sultan, you may notice a significant gap, somewhat taxidermied over
where Dr David Pilditch, an intensive care specialist at Dunedin Hospital
promptly grabbed Sultan by the mane. Among other things, this gap in his mane
dictated the orientation of Sultan when </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">we did the diorama of
the lions when they were first displayed. Finally, if you wish to complete this
story, you will notice that a piece of the bottom part of the case door that
housed Sonia and Sultan in the Animal Attic has a piece chiselled out of it. It
was only by chiselling that piece out that we were able to fit Sonia in to the
limited display area. I rather suspect that that missing piece will puzzle
display staff to come. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally, the lions were responsible for a minor accident
in Christchurch when I went to pick them up after being taxidermied. The only
way they could fit in the van was to have Sultans head projecting part way over
the front passengers seat. I am fairly sure that the nose to tail, (quite
minor) at the Riccarton traffic lights was due to the lady drivers look of
horror as she pulled up alongside me. The message I got from the top was that
If I wanted to display the lions at the museum, then it was my responsibility
to raise the money to have them taxidermied. There was of course keen
competition between a number of service clubs to raise the money to get them
stuffed, the Lions club among them, who missed out to another service club. At
the time this happened I was the Assistant Director of the Otago Museum and in
the absence of the Director made an executive decision to acquire the lions for
the Museum. When the Director returned to the museum a week or so later his
only comment was <strong>"Thank God they were not bloody elephants"!.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Lawrence Lions Book Launch wouldn't have been the great success it was without the lovely chicks who helped sell the book. A huge thanks to <strong>Kylie, Merran, Brooke, Eden, Livi and Hannah</strong> - you are stars.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320129443324350451.post-46578804646965168422012-10-10T12:13:00.000-07:002012-10-10T17:36:07.856-07:00University Bookshop Newsletter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For a self-published book like 'The Lawrence Lions' our biggest challenge is 'getting our name around' . The highlight of the week has been reading our title in the University Bookshops National Newsletter. Also we would have to comment on positioning on the newsletter... just below 'Do Your Ears Hang Low' by The Topp Twins and above 'The House That Wonky Built'. Thanks University Bookshop we love your work. <em>Click on the UBS logo if you would like to view the newsletter</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The New Zealand Book Council has also just listed The Lawrence Lions on their site,in the 'Just Out' Section' (October 2012)</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320129443324350451.post-70151625256733606952012-10-09T23:18:00.000-07:002012-10-10T02:00:45.986-07:00Not at Frankfurt, but still getting around!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg6u4HYhUaWYVcGAK15gb2eSKJHnjeVzhtmJjlAX9Bm58uY17HRmBdz_MY5ca1pvxUs__dASqFABNVIEJLZBwfwCfZVI6FeFVK2OO8RJgGCCg1DHYpDYN0jO-zcMpURRFXSML5x43mezps/s1600/IMG_0802+(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg6u4HYhUaWYVcGAK15gb2eSKJHnjeVzhtmJjlAX9Bm58uY17HRmBdz_MY5ca1pvxUs__dASqFABNVIEJLZBwfwCfZVI6FeFVK2OO8RJgGCCg1DHYpDYN0jO-zcMpURRFXSML5x43mezps/s400/IMG_0802+(2).JPG" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The Lawrence Lions book is not at the Frankfurt Book Festival... but it was at Milton. Today I had the pleasure of visiting the Milton Library Holiday Programme as the guest reader. The children's art activity was to make crazy hats and wigs like Margaret Mahy once wore. I then had the priviledge of reading her famous lion book, the fictional story of 'The Lion in the Meadow'. After this I read the true story of The Lawrence Lions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>Thanks to the Library Staff for the warm welcome and the children for being a fantastic audience.</em></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320129443324350451.post-1142993921435187162012-10-01T23:09:00.000-07:002012-11-11T23:13:43.417-08:00Sultan and Sonia at the Otago Museum<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Last night I was thrilled
to share the launch of my book 'The Lawrence Lions' with around 100 people at the
Lawrence Golf Club. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This book has been created to
share an extraordinary story of Lawrence's history with the children of today.
To some of you a tale that took place in 1978 may not have been that long ago,
but for children it is definitely regarded as history!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This story is based on a true
story that happened in Lawrence, Otago, New Zealand on March 30th 1978. I have
tried to include events as they happened on the night, although some things I
have altered to take into account the age of the audience that the book has been
aimed at.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">While writing this book I have
had a huge amount of support from my family and 'locals' who were there on the
night, and still live in Lawrence. They have all had a story to tell and taught
me much about the events of the night. I would like to thank them for their
enthusiasm, support and encouragement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The book is available through
this site or if you are <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">driving through Lawrence, call into the Museum
and purchase your book in the little town that the lions strolled through 34
years ago. If you are in Dunedin,go and visit the Lawrence Lions Sultan and
Sonia, sitting pride of place in the Animal Attic at Otago Museum.</span>
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