Wand practice

Wand practice

The other week we visited the Harry Potter experience over by Watford. For some pictures see Instagram or Twitter. In the shop, there were some replica wands made from plastic and they were £32 each. Much as I love a

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Pepper’s Ghost

Pepper's Ghost

A few weeks back my 3 year old daughter gained a “Sooty” magic wand on the front of a magazine and has been trying to make things appear and disappear ever since. To help her “magic things” I was thinking

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Metal solids of constant width

Metal solids of constant width

I’ve mentioned before when I was looking at measuring tools, John Bryant and Chris Sangwin and the book “how round is your circle”. One of the interesting items from the book was a selection of metal objects that had constant

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Something Magical

Something Magical

This weekend was the PSTOIC Christmas dinner and the theme was “Something Magical”. Not having time to come up with something home made I headed over to Trafalgar Square and down into the subway to Davenport’s Magic. I had a

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