How to make a quidditch broom.

Brooms, brooms, brooms.

A traditional broom made from materials scrounged from around the house:

 A quicker, easier alternative:

Mr Happy

An old sock, some fleece for extra padding, some corflute for rigidity and a little Velcro. For when the phone is to be dropped into a pannier.

Air screw

We built a model of Leonardo da Vinci's Aerial Screw this afternoon.

It works really well. You can feel the down-draft when it is spinning, but the lift is not great enough to get it to take off. As soon as it starts to lift it looses its connection to the drive shaft and slows down. But it looks good!
- Robert

Spinning magnet thing

It was harder than I though it would be to get it working. Then when I came back to it a few hours later it had to be completely rebalanced. Thomas' was impressed.
- Robert.

Boccherini

Thomas playing violin at the annual concert that his teacher, Matthew, puts on. I've shrunk the video to make it easier to upload, but you still get the idea.