The Magic Show (Part One):

While they were mucking around (anyone who has performed or been an audience participant in any Family Show will know what I mean here) The Lad and I showed A10 our chicken trick:

If I'm ever round you and you have a few minutes to spare, let me show this delightfully long tale about a chicken and a hedgehog:


L9 calls us back to attention and asks us whether we could get the baked bean tin off the paper without touching the tin?:


We tried all sorts of whipping the paper out from underneath type tricks, till we gave up and L9 showed us her way - she simply rolled the paper up and as she rolled it, the tin slid off the paper. Tricky!:


Then H7 shows us her amazing ball-suspended-in-a-sealed-glass-box-on-a-string trick - how will she ever get that ball out of that box without touching it?:


Of course, all it took was a few magic words and that box literally flew right apart, leaving the ball free to dangle (at least, I *think* that was the essence of the trick - she's not the loudest of public speakers:


And for her next trick ..... she is going to pass this nail right through the palm of her hand!


Slam! She stabs it through her hand and ..... what? Where Is It? "Ooops, sorry!" she says "*That* was the disappearing nail trick - NOT the passing through my hand one!"


A10 has this magic coin:


And a few waves of his hand, some intense audience interaction and he STILL has this magic coin:


So L9 shows us her amazing one-loop-into-two-intertwined-loops trick:


Then L4 shows us how he can stick the magic coin to his forehead:


Say a few magic words:


And the coin disappears!:


They were booed off the stage and told to practice tomorrow and polish their acts, and we'd sit down to a REAL magic show tomorrow night - I can hardly wait!