Lego

[maxcelcat]

The parents of oldest friend Geoff (who I have known longer than evildoom_bunny has been alive) are moving house for the first time since the late sixties. So Geoff had to find a home for all of the old crap sitting in his old room back in North Boring.

Being the owner of a station wagon, I was enlisted to help. It was bizarre being back at his place - it hasn't changed a bit since I was last there sometime in the 1990s. In fact it hasn't seriously changed since I was there for his tenth birthday party in 1981.

There was lots of old crap floating around his place which I remembered, which was a bit scary, and some stuff which I didn't, which was also a bit scary. I'd given him several drawings over the years, at least one of which I couldn't remember at all. It looked like it had been published somewhere, or at least was intended to be. And I couldn't remember the context at all...

The most bizarre shit he has are a whole series of "teaching teenagers about sex" books, most of which dated from the seventies and were disturbing and fucking hilarious by turns. I especially liked one from some magazine which asked on page eleven: Are you Bisexual?

But most of all I was there for the Lego. Geoff has stacks of old space Lego, although we agreed he'd probably had more at some stage. The fate of the rest of it is not clear - possibly his mom chucked it, which is SACRILEGE OF THE HIGHEST ORDER, akin to, say, setting fire to the Mona Lisa.

After we got all his crap back to his place, it quickly became clear that there wasn't space for it in his tiny house in Fitzroy. So the Lego ended up at my place!!!! Long term loan! I had to ask evildoom_bunny first, thinking Girlfriends and Lego usually don't mix. But she pulled her "Squeeeeee!!" face! I think I'm in love :-)

So I've been attempting to make the biggest fucking Lego spaceship you've ever seen. It's about 70cm long!

Not sure that being 35 and sitting on the floor playing with Lego is a good look, but who cares. My knees care, I'm getting too old to be squatting down like that :-)

Comments

[tortoises.livejournal.com]

LEGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I love Lego. You will have to take photos of your spaceship.

... Dammit, now I want to go build something. But it's too late right now. :(

[maxcelcat]

I will photograph it when it's finished :-)

Hmmm... Maybe I'll waste some of my Sunday afternoon on it :-)

[naughtydolphin.livejournal.com]

My brother in law got hugely excited when his mother brought up his lego, though he did notice immediately that there were bits missing. He also got excited when his Smurfs collection was brought up. He thinks she gave some away over the years...which is almost as sacrilegous! He's uh..34 I think. I lose track :)