What Happened at the Meeting on Friday 19th April

Our theme was "Sponge Ball Magic", led by Noel Clair.

We welcomed our Patron Graham Holstein, who was visiting us.

Another arrival was the happy return from Canberra of our member Stuart Gray, who has been posted back to Williamtown after some years.  Greetings Stuart !  Great to see you again !

Joel Howlett showed us his sponge ball routine, in which he makes a sponge ball appear and disappear, all choreographed to music.  Every move was accentuated by the timing of the music.  It was brilliant.

Then David Whitson displayed his skill at manipulation of sponge bananas, including multiplying them (David Ginn's item).  He also did Goshman's "Star of the Show" in which a sponge ball, handed to the spectator, changes into a large star-shaped sponge.

Steve Irwin had worked out a "Sponge Bob" routine in which a round sponge ball turns into a sponge cube shaped like "Sponge Bob".

Barry Whitson caused sponge balls to multiply themselves and to divide into two pieces.

John Ferguson followed with card items - "One More Chance", in which a card chosen by the spectator appeared in John's wallet, which had been lying openly on the table from the start. Also, he had a card chosen, and then found it with the help of a Tulip flower because tulips have had an eerie effect on people over the years.

John's volunteer, Andrew Pickard, chose the opportunity while out the front to show us card items -  a chosen card discovered by spreading the deck - it had reversed itself in the spread. Next, he placed a chosen card into the deck and found it had jumped to the top of the deck.

Noel Clair finished off with both sponge ball magic and card magic.  He caused sponge balls to change colour.  He magically divided one sponge ball in two, and he vanished sponge balls. Then, in a  couple of card items, he showed the invisible pass and the premiere performance of the invisible flat pass.