Having recently reclaimed my collection of Lego a couple of weekends ago, and with Ellie out at work all day this week (12 hour days, ouch), I have been taking the opportunity to sort all the Lego out.  This is a job that hasn’t been done properly in many many years, not since I was back at school.  Since I left for university the Lego has been in Peter’s possession, but by the looks of things he’s hardly used it.  I can still recognise bits that were parts of models I made when it was mine, and haven’t been taken apart since!  Peter never was as enthusiastic about Lego as I was, at least not in the same way – I would built anything that came to mind in intricate detail, whereas I think Peter just built what the instructions told him.

The shear amount of Lego is quite impressive, I had forgotten just how much of it there was.  Admittedly not all of it had been mine back then, there are a few models that were Christopher’s briefly before I inherited them, and some that were Peter’s after I bequeathed my collection to him.  Having reclaimed everything now, there’s quite a substantial pile of pieces, and when I started on Monday evening none of it was in any sort of order.  Nightmare.

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