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Sadly, my camera was tired after a long day of taking photos, and long night of uploading photos, without an opportunity to recharge.

A video camera was being waved around during the evening, but the camera operator was a little tired himself (I believe “tired as a newt” is the medical term) I don’t know yet how well it came out.

What, no pictures?

They joy of marbles! Sounds delightfully challenging.

My brothers and I made all kinds of marble runs as children – we had a large set of blocks, made from 4×2 wood and cut into various unit-multiple length. Like some kind of Cuisenaire rods but much larger.

The best ever, though, was once we had worked out that we could make marble sorting machines. Series of ramps and slots of varying sizes allowed for a jumble of differently-sized marbles to be dumped in the top (no need to feed one by one) and emerge in different pens at the bottom. As a child, nothing brought more pleasure!