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Category: magic tricks

  • magic moments

    This morning I will be attending one of our Parent and Toddler groups, Bright Sparks, for their Jubilee Party. They’ve asked me to do some magic tricks, which I am delighted to do. The question I am currently considering is: what tricks do I do? I probably won’t be sawing anyone in half. Toddlers inhabit…

  • simply counting

    Travelling back from Bluewater in the car yesterday evening (see Friday’s bloggage for details) I had time to reflect a bit on the day. The morning service at our church blessed me immensely. It was not the singing or the sermon or the prayers or actually anything that happened in the service, it was the…

  • interconnectivity-ness

    Tonight is the inaugural meeting of Colchester Magic Club. it is a gathering that I have endeavoured to call together of people who are interested in learning and performing magic tricks. I was surprised and delighted when, following a request for a re-tweet from a well-known magician, I was contacted by several people who are…

  • magic moments

    I have finally got around to doing something I have been talking about for a while – trying to organise a magic club for North Essex. I have imaginatively called it ‘Colchester Magic Club’ and it is for anyone interested in performing, learning, sharing and improving magic tricks. The Facebook page is here The response…

  • open-mouthed amazement

    When we visit my sister I always have to take some magic tricks to show my niece Bethany. (She’s 18, by the way!). I love doing this because she is such an appreciative audience and keen participant. Imagine the scene from our last visit, earlier this month. I give a playing card to Bethany,who signs…

  • show and tell?

    I am a (very) part-time chaplain at Essex University. Today I took part in a ‘Learning at Work’ day at the Uni. The best way I can think of to describe it is that it is a grown-up version of ‘show and tell’. Now that is underplaying it badly, but the idea is that if you…

  • going equipped

    I went prepared to the Baptist Assembly. In my bag I had a small selection of magic tricks in case somebody had a sudden deficiency of entertainment and the shout went out, “Is there a magician in the hotel?” Sadly there was no such call. The tricks stayed in my bag, except for a couple…

  • improvising

    I took part in an Assembly today for a local school (reception to Year 6). I was asked to speak about Easter and decided to use a magic trick to illustrate what I was saying. As I was getting ready a vital part of the trick broke. Aaargh! I then had to improvise a repair. Which…

  • the secret of God’s timing

    Isn’t God’s timing fantastic? I can’t give details but I have just experienced that this morning – where someone’s generosity led to someone else receiving a gift at exactly the right time when only that person and God knew of the need. I was the courier in the experience and left rejoicing and laughing at…

  • Tiny extra bonus blog relating to one of my interests that does not get many mentions – and now this blog title is longer than the actual blog entry!

    I have just performed a card trick for my son, Thomas, and he is impressed and bemused. A FIRST!! Woohoo.