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Fatherhood: How-to – Make a Lego Minifigure Storage Display for under £5

Posted on January 29, 2017August 19, 2022 by Henry Elliss

If you are a collector of Lego Minifigures – either the ‘blind bag’ collections or perhaps a particular range – you might struggle to find a good solution to storing them all in a nice display case. Sure, you can buy a variety of options that do the job, but they’re all very expensive and…

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Fatherhood: Review – Lego Star Wars Advent Calendar, 2016

Posted on November 5, 2016January 6, 2018 by Henry Elliss

Most of you who follow or know me will already be aware of my fascination with Lego – so when I was asked if I wanted to review the 2016 Lego Star Wars Advent Calendar, I obviously jumped at the chance. After my initial excitement, I realised I was in a bit of a strange…

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Fatherhood: Review – Lego Star Wars ‘Tie Striker’ Rogue One Set

Posted on October 10, 2016 by Henry Elliss

Today is an exciting day. It might not seem like much to you, but today I have fulfilled a dream which I have been working towards for nearly five years – ever since I started this very blog, in fact. Yes, today (well, very recently anyway) I was asked to review a new Lego set….

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Fatherhood: Female Lego Figures – the Silent Minority

Posted on March 1, 2016January 7, 2018 by Henry Elliss

The dad blogging community is having a good month, at least when it comes to Lego. If you’ve not seen one of the many posts on the subject, Lego have been rolling-out their new lines and sets for 2016 – and one of those sets contains a rather hipstery-looking Lego man pushing a baby in…

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Fatherhood: The Lego Movie + Sprouts

Posted on December 1, 2015December 1, 2015 by Henry Elliss

If you are yet to see the 2015 Christmas advert from Sky Movies, which features a little girl trying to get rid of her Christmas Brussel Sprouts by distributing them around a variety of movies, you should probably go watch it now. Because if you haven’t seen it, this post is going to make even…

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Fatherhood: Family Days Out – Christmas at Legoland Windsor

Posted on December 14, 2014June 4, 2018 by Henry Elliss

With the big day fast approaching, and a trip to see Father Christmas still not ticked-off our seasonal ‘to do’ list, my wife came across an interesting new option last week. It seemed to fulfil all the criteria: a fun day out, a chance to meet the big man and do some other Christmassy stuff,…

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Fatherhood²: An Open Letter to Lego – You CAN Choose Your Friends

Posted on September 24, 2014January 7, 2018 by Henry Elliss

Dear Lego I’m writing you this letter because I’m worried about you. I think you might be hanging around with the wrong people, and I’m concerned that nobody else is telling you this – or at least getting through to you. Let me start off by saying this: I love you, Lego. We go back…

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Fatherhood²: Lego Pops-Up at Westfield London

Posted on July 31, 2014January 7, 2018 by Henry Elliss

Back in May, a nice lady from an agency invited me along to Westfield shopping centre in London, to review what it was like for a dad (Fatherhood²: Review – Westfield Isn’t Just for Clothes Shopping). When said nice lady discovered that I spent the gift card she gave me in the Lego shop (well…

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Fatherhood²: Lego vs Greenpeace – What’s it About?

Posted on July 10, 2014January 7, 2018 by Henry Elliss

Chances are you will have seen a video from Greenpeace somewhere in your social feeds this week – if you’ve not seen it yet, take a look at the clip below. In a nutshell, Greenpeace are campaigning for Lego to drop their partnership with Shell Oil – a relationship which has been going for 50…

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Fatherhood²: Finally, David Beckham and I have Something in Common

Posted on February 3, 2014January 7, 2018 by Henry Elliss

Yesterday, I learned that David Beckham and I have something in common. No, I’ve not been holding a secret footballing ability back from you all these years – and I certainly don’t have a penchant for wearing sarongs. No, as it turns out, our common love is for something a little smaller – namely, Lego….

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As today is ‘Back British Farming’ day, I want As today is ‘Back British Farming’ day, I wanted to give a shout-out to all the farmers in the local area, especially Brimpton’s own @mbowden1954. One of my favourite aspects of living where we do now is being surrounded by countryside and farm land - and being able to see an actively-farmed field at the end of our garden. Every time something’s being done to the field I’m out with my camera, usually trying to figure out the names of all the machinery - and it’s so nice to see a product being grown right from seed to harvest. I know it’s not easy for farmers at the moment, and I dearly hope ours are able to keep farming for many years to come - so if you have one near you, make sure to show them all the support you can!
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