NOVEMBER MEETING - Learn to be a magician, in one easy trick!

Held at OLIVERS in Rochester and organised by Nick and Wayne, great concept, great meeting, really, really funny.

Private room in Oliver's with a very nice dinner. The members were introduced to Joe, our resident magician for the evening, who performed a few warm up tricks and then we were split into four teams and each team was taken outside and taught one magic trick.

Then we had the performances. First up was The Chairman, who did a really good trick involving a quite complicated manipulation of a great big dice in a box, very clever.

Followed by Chris performing, or part performing, part Joe getting stuck in, a card trick. Not bad. Then Phil balancing a cup of water on John's head with out spilling a drop.

Then came the celebrity act of the evening. Brian and Debbie McGee, a truly wonderful magician accompanied by his lovely and gorgeous assistant Debbie (aka Bellie, and boy, did he show his belly).

As the person writing this drivel I would normally praise myself to the heavens, but in this case I have to say that full credit goes to Debbie for true comedic value added to my natural gift for magic. Bloody brilliant!

A really enjoyable evening was had by all with a great twist on the table magic concept. Almost as good as the GASS magic night held many years ago where we all purchased a quality trick and performed in front of the membership one at a time. That was back in March 2016.....

If you want a walk down memory lane then use the link below to access the old minutes from 2012-2016.

Scroll down through some hilarious memories of meetings gone by to near the end of the file, and there we all were. It really is worth scrolling through our history. There are actually FOUR volumes in all going right back to where the GASS book left off.

MEETINGS VOLUME 3 - OCTOBER 20212 TO SEPTEMBER 2016

And here is another memory from those old days of yore.

Gallagher's Quarry, 2016, with the biggest stone ever dug out!

The running joke that Brian wanted to be buried on his country estate (love saying that!) under a fuck off great big stone. Well Ian obliged with the 5.4 ton monster back in 2016, and Hugh obliged a few weeks back by bringing up a 22 ton 360 excavator and shifting the bugger to its final resting place in the new Stede Court Estate Garden of Remembrance.

Now partially finished to honour first the passing of Sara's dad, and hopefully me in 30 years time.

I really do recommend trawling through VOLUMES 1-4 of the old minutes, it is so funny, and may even contain ideas for re-runs of old meetings!

Well done Nick and Wayne, great evening, many thanks!