full episodes downton abbey

Stone is hard to carve, but very easy to model, as Rob shows. This is an excellent, inexpensive and simple way to create :stone" in model landscapes and railway layouts.

Joke cards are popular, so Rob shows how to make one that will give anyone opening it a noisy surprise

Deane demonstrates a simple technique for finding compass directions without a compass.

Deane and Rob present challenging puzzles involving loops and chains made from coloured woollen thread.

A match pushed through a hole in a board magically jumps to another one. As Rob shows, it is an easy trick to set up.

Waxwork flowers were once extremely fashionable. Not many people do them now, but Rob shows how to make simple wax flowers with a candle - and takes a quick look at some vegetable creatures!

Deane provides a match stick puzzle to try at home.

Where does a nice cup of tea begin its journey? Deane and Rob visit the Nerada Tea Plantation in Queensland, Australia, where they explain how tea leaves are harvested, processed and packaged.

These days, most of our writing paper is A4, but it used to be foolscap. As Rob explains, it didn't get its name because some silly person made hats from it, but from its watermark. But what is a watermark?

Mucilage is the lick-and-stick glue on some stamps, envelopes and stickers. Very useful stuff and, as Rob shows, it is extremely easy to make your own, which will keep for a long time in the refrigerator once you have made it.

Deane shows how to make a miniature cardboard duck shooting gallery. It is made from matchboxes, rubber bands, ice cream sticks, matches, cardboard and marking pens.

Deane shows Rob a trick for fanning sheets of paper in a spectacular circular pattern.

You would think that breaking a match in your fingers would be easy, and it can be, but not if you go about it the wrong way.

There is scientific magic in the knife, the paper or the potato - or something else involved here - but, as Rob says, take great care or get someone to help you if you are using a sharp knife.

Australians, like the British, drive their cars on the left hand side of the road, but why do that when, in other countries, people drive on the right? As Rob explains, it is all down to history.