Hurrah!
Rob and I met last night and showed off what we've been working on (him with some wonderful new rope ideas and some still-under-development sponge ball work, I with some things I've been doing with ice and fire). We took a tour around the pub and found some willing spectators to try some things on, then played around with flashpaper in the beer garden (not just for fun, I might add: we were testing the flammability of some gimmicks we'd been building as part of an experimental trick idea).
Great fun, although I was almost wrong-footed by one of our spectators: a woman who used to work as a magician's assistant and asked all
manner of awkward questions, while looking pretty smug in what she was seeing.
A shame not to see
Andy this month, and I'm still optimistic that
Johnny Wizz will be able to make it, one of these days!
Logically, the next meetup should be
Tuesday 22nd July 2014. Does that sound good to everybody?