My son Dante goes to a lovely Montessori (pre-school) in our local village. Last week the children went on a school trip to Curraghchase (our local forest park) where they were entertained by a magician whose greatest trick was to keep twenty young children relatively still and silent for the duration of his act! At one point he invited Dante and Mrs Shan up to help out, and here are a couple of photos of them in action. I was hoping he might make Dante disappear for a week or two, so that I could put my feet up and relax, but alas he seems to have fallen short on that one... :-)