Last weekend I was out to buy my lad a present. He's been very good for weeks, and I just got paid a bonus so I thought it was time Daddy bought him something to build......
I didn't go to BUY Lego, cos he has duplo and he's only 3 1/2 but the stuff I thought I wanted... didn't call to my heart.
But a £26 box of Lego, to make a set of different "log cabins" was calling me
7 Years and over....
sod it.. I'll be doing it with him.
He was so excited I thought he'd explode...I've been worknig every hour for 3 weeks solid so we've only been together for period when I was... stressed or concentrating on otherr stuff. So ... "quality time " time.
We, (Sair, I and Zak Jr) spent 3 hours building a tiny little lego cabin.. and it was astonishingly detailed. For the un initiated, you have no words in the instruction.. just 3d drawings, with a list of components needed on that page. No words.. so for a kid who can't read yet.. genius. He was counting the blobs on top of the picures, working out which piece he needed.. and if it said 2x or 3x he knew how many he needed.
His 3d ability to read a diagram improved vastly... and we finished it.... and the roof comes off, it has an external BBQ, sloped roof etc.. amazing,.
But it's the qaulity of the Lego that astounds.. the grip of the pieces.. the sharp edges of the building corners.. the strength of the structure...
it must be one of THE items that has not deterioriated over the last 30 years since I used it (not this kit.. but Lego in general). Amazing
But better was to come.
The day after, I was back at work.. but Sair and Zak Jr built the next one in the book... intermediate. So the first has to be taken apart brick by brick... and then they began.
The result is a 2 part house with a set of hinges that, when the house is closed... act as a chimney breast, and when it's open... allow the two sides to be so accurately folded that they must be within a thou of an inch.. it's astonishing.
little pieces of pastic for kids.. in a kids toy.. built with no tools... fits within a fraction of a fraction of an inch.
Lego..... it's the DADDY