Piece by piece

Well, I was going to write about Beth's birthday, but the draft of that entry is on my laptop at work, so it'll have to wait till Thursday when I'm next in the office. Still, this entry is tangentially birthday related, so that'll have to do for now.

Beth was given some Duplo Lego for her birthday, so I've been playing with that with her. Well, I say playing... what happens is that I build things and she demolishes them, usually before i'm even done building them. Still, it's good fun, and I'm sure she'll get the hang of the building side of things in due course.

It has, as it goes, reminded me how much I used to enjoy my Lego. So, last weekend when I was at my parents, I headed up into their loft to fetch down some of my old Technic Lego. I have spent the past few evenings, with Alison's help, building this beauty: