Everybody enjoyed the Christmas party, where we were entertained by Stu Ritchie and Marc Paul.
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We had an excellent lecture from Diamond Jim Tyler. There was a lot of practical magic that we were shown.
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Competition Night. This was a 'friendly' competition between members, with non-magician guests being welcomed both as part of the audience and as judges.
Four cups were awarded. Chris Keyward was awarded three of them, the Close-Up competetition, the Stage competition, and the Audiences Choice cups, and Stu Ritchie was awarded the Comedy cup.
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A few WMA members joined the AWS at a pub which was owned by one of the AWS members.
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President's Night. We had one of the most entertaining lectures that we have had for ages. John Kimmons was billed to give a talk on entertaining children. Ah well, this makes us all children, as everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
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The AWS venue has the advantage of a bar.
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Mike Latham's audititon (pictured) preceeded a very entertaining friendly (?) competition between Jay (Parsons) and John (Gadd's) teams for the Harry Potter Cup. The prestigious trophy was won by John's team.
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There was a good turn-out from the WMA in attending the Bristol Day of Magic, a very popular Annual event, in spite of the difficult journey to get there. There was a good dealers hall, and the lectures, including one by Joshua Jay proved of interest.
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In spite of the economic situation, the Convention was a great success.  The dealers hall was full while no talks were going on, and even then there were plenty of customers.
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It was a very good lecture from Dave.
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Atticus Bowring, Steve Bowring, Xerxes Talata and Tim Layman, with President Andy Nineham (right).
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Pictures of the two halls where the dealers are situated.
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