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So, me being an expert procrastinator, I'm going to do a few of the simple things from a list of stuff that I've wondered how to do for an age, but never got round to finding out, so I'm going to do something  of that before finding another curiosity to look into.

How to spin a pencil,  which is ridiculously awkward, I found a bunch of youtube videos that helped just by typing in "how to spin a pencil." Although actually spinning the pencil is awkward at first, practise does help, as annoying as it is. Anyway, to spina pencil you hole the pen with your forefinger and your middle finger on the outside and your thumb resting gently on top, don't hold it too tightly, just enough to keep it in your hand.

Then push gently but quickly on the bottom half to spin the pencil around your thumb. Be careful, spin too quickly and the pencil will fly off, not enough and it won't complete the spin.

When I was looking for instructions on how to do it, I found information about how to spin a drum stick,which works just as well; the first method was by slotting the pencil between your forefinger and your middle finger and both rotating and shaking the pencil side to side for the "fake spin", for an actual "spin" you slot the pencil between your forefinger and you middle finger, using your ring finger you pull it over your middle finger, then using your little finger you pull it over your ring finger. Before finally, using your forefinger pull the pen back to the starting position, using your thumb to help it. It's illustrating but you will gradually get faster when you don't have to think about what you have to do to get it to spin.

How to knot a cherry stem,
Which Is ridiculously easy once you know how to to do it;  that is first you retrieve a cherry stem, long and flexible, fold it over your tongue with one half on top the other below, then grip the fold in you teeth and bite down until the stem form a loop with the ends as an x shape, then push one end through the loop with your tongue.