Successful Magic Night & Band of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

On Friday night, 26th March, Stephen Taylor, Neils Vinter and I hosted the magic night at Seaham hall and I am please to report it was a really good night. John Archer was very good with comic songs including a classical piece on the ukulele and psychological magic as well as some very clever maths with magic squares, which had everyone guessing. 

The cake went down a storm with everyone getting a piece, I also took the little people off the top of the cake for safe keeping and plan to take them to the top of Kilimanjaro. There was some concern that there were only 17 people on the top of the cake; however the other 3 were just round the corner less than one hour from the top. It was an excellent night, a big thank you to all who came along to support as.

The summit of the cake 

On Sunday night, 28th March, Neil and Jessica two of the other climbers, arranged for The Band of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers to play a charity concert in Sunderland Minster as a fund-raising event. The band were joined by guest singers John Rowland and Julie Pendleton and Neil plays the Clarinet in the band.

It was an excellent evening with the band playing rousing military marching tunes and tunes from the movies and shows including Oliver, Phantom of the Opera and the Sound of Music and when they played “Climb Every Mountain” I did smile. I’m not sure the song will make it on to my ipod but it is a funny song for the trip. The evening finished with “Rule Britannia” just like being at last night of the proms.   

 The Band of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers