Today’s seven day blogging challenge asks that I divulge information not already haunting the corridors of my blog. So like any sensible person I decided to form a plan of attack!
I formed a panel of past Nobel prize laureates and set them the task, with a raisin and biscuit yorkie chocolate bar as the prize for best suggestion. Okay that was a lie, I realise you saw through it immediately. I mean who would give a yorkie bar away?!
So instead I spoke to my better half and we decided on lego. Those beautiful plastic bricks. As a child you could leave me alone with my ice cream containers full of lego and I was content.
A lego lunar buggy chucking up moon rock as it trundled across the lunar landscape (my bed cover), with my space wallpaper as a backdrop. The tie-fighter I created of my own design, proudly showing my Grandmother whilst staying over at her house (lego boxes tipped up over her lounge floor). Then when older technic lego was purchased and I built an arm (my own creation), whose fingers moved when valves were pressed.
Lego can aid the minds creativity. The parameters are simple, the possibilities numerous. Unlike the restrictions found in computer games, which severely stifle.
It has been a seriously long time since I tipped boxes of lego out over the floor, but perhaps those days are not behind me. Last year I collected my lego from my parents and I have plans afoot. Possibly involving lego’s robotic mindstorm kits or just getting creative once again.
I have numerous hobbies and passions that fight for my time, but perhaps I will let lego back into my life again one day. I don’t deem it childish, neither am I trying to recapture those past moments, but having a bit of fun. Perhaps those boxes instead will sit there waiting for my children.
For now the return to the moon is on hold, but it is only a matter of time. 😉
Legos are awesome, and completely not childish. My wife got me a small kit for my birthday (or maybe it was Christmas) in the first year of our marriage. I still have the ship I built with it. As a kid I spent hours and days working on whole lego worlds. Just the coolest stuff. I can’t keep my hands off it.
Lego is fantastic! I know lots of adults who ‘play’ with it … I think it would be wonderful for the mind and an excellent creative exercise for an analytical brain.
Hello,
Jeff – Your wife is awesome! Glad to read your still creating with lego.
Tracey – Between you and Jeff’s comments I feel happier about the possibility of using lego. I don’t know anyone else who does. So thank you for your reply.
Cheers for your responses.
All the best
Andrew