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Fatherhood²: Lego, Lego, Everywhere…

Posted on August 20, 2013January 7, 2018 by Henry Elliss

I was planning to write an interesting blog post tonight, and had been thinking of a variety of different topics I could cover. After a long and quite busy day at work, I thought to myself “I’d like to relax tonight, but I haven’t written a blog for a while – I’d better get my arse in to gear”. Everything was going to plan, until I received the following photo via text message from my wife – at around 5pm:

It appears there had been an explosion at a Lego factory. Either that, or Robert’s play-date – visiting our house for the very first time – wasn’t quite as fond of the “No colour-mixing” rule as I am…

So instead of writing a long blog post, I shall be sitting on the floor – thankfully accompanied by wine and the ‘Great British Bake Off’ – and sorting all the bricks back in to their trays.

And yes, before you tell me, I KNOW I am anally retentive and probably take our Lego storage solution FAR too seriously. But hey – that’s just how I roll!

Wish me luck…

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  • 4 thoughts on “Fatherhood²: Lego, Lego, Everywhere…”

    1. Dan says:
      August 20, 2013 at 7:52 pm

      It’s not so much the fact you sort lego that I object to, its that you have the methodology wrong.

      Common wisdom has it that you sort by piece rather than colour

    2. Deadsetchamp says:
      August 21, 2013 at 4:15 am

      Did

    3. Deadsetchamp says:
      August 21, 2013 at 4:16 am

      Did you ever use Duplo or was it straight to lego?

    4. Lynette Patterson says:
      August 26, 2013 at 8:26 pm

      Wow, the fact you have a system, other than pawing through a gigantic box of parts is impressive to me! My boys love to play with my husbands old legos, but Ive never thought of organizing them in any particular manner.

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