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Meccano & Lego

Todays thought is on Meccano & Lego - you know the great stuff that we had growing up - well usually it was brothers, but I was such a tomboy....John still has - utterly protected - an entire Meccano set awaiting the time that he thinks his boys are worthy.....Anyway, I was delivering my boys to a friends house yesterday, and the parents got talking about the old stuff - you know, Lego when it came in 2 sizes of bricks with a green pad at the bottom, and now when you get a lego set - there's not even a square or rectangular brick in sight..You can now click onto the Lego website and play interactive games, even Meccano has gone all high tech...Then, as I came home - I looked around and wondered WHAT would be a lifelong legacy of our kids - when most things get easily broken before they get out of the packet - then I felt old - really old - in fact bloody old - lol....So I suppose that in a way - it's more important to capture the play times and scrapbook them to remember the toys of today. Take the time to list favourite TV programmes, songs, latest crazes as they won't be around as long as the old stuff was...Anyway, there's my excuse to do no housework next week - hehehe. Wilma is on our list to visit next week, she's spent most of the last few months in and out of hospital, the Josie has a housewarming party (again) as her partner has moved in and she needs very little excuse for a party :0) Jenny has her final school ball next week - it seems like yesterday that she was turning a teenager working Saturdays at the shop - Laura too, and she has had her final school ball the other week. Cill - now that she works at the school- had her photo taken with Laura, and Christine can usually be seen running around in the Unichem drug bug - unless one of the other girls has blown it up (long story) so, that's catch up for this week ....stay warm & dry