The magician in the family has been awarded the Order of Merlin. Notification arrived yesterday, not by Owl but by Muggle Post. It seems to be some sort of lifetime achievement award despite the fact that the magician (Dad) has pretty much given up. He no longer pulls rabbits out of hats at birthday parties. Hmm...he never did pull rabbits out of hats at birthday parties. He did not like the idea of using a live animal. His influence on the magical world is still there though. He made apparatus for his fellow magicians after he retired from being the headmaster of a Muggle school - and some of that apparatus has been used in a command performance in front of HM Queen Elizabeth II. I hope she enjoyed it as a lot of her job seems to be intensely boring.
The magician however seems to attract dirt. I finally managed to get the latest pair of workshop trousers into the wash. They had to be soaked in the laundry tub first...and they left behind an interesting trail of mud, sawdust and a magnet. Compared with these my jeans looked pristine.
I wonder what it is with boys (of all ages). Do they have a built in magnetic dirt attractor?
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