Weekend Reading: One Brick At A Time

As I stumble to the end of a sixth week of consecutive marking deadlines and brace for a seventh, with Half Term already started and a child to entertain all by myself with nowhere to go in sub-zero temperatures while working full time, I’m forced to admit that I have nothing of value to add to your weekend. My current thought processes are reduced to ‘Sleep Good: Screen Bad’. That’s it. That’s all I’ve got. So I’ll keep this short, and hope that I have more bandwidth next week!

I am currently attempting (mostly around midnight while half asleep, one brick at a time) to pull together a project for International Lego Classicism Day, on 20th Feb. If you haven’t seen my incredibly sophisticated contributions (!) from previous years, here are some links: to my 2020 Lego rendering of the apocryphal story of Princess Claudia of Britain, and to my 2019 imagining of the back-story of Barates and Regina. Watch this space for this year’s project. I have absolutely no idea whether I’ll be able to make it work, or how I’m going to go about it – but I’m sure I’ll come up with something in time…!

If you’d like to join in with a Lego creation on the day, please do! You can post on social media using the hashtags – or if you’re not on social media you’re welcome to send your pictures to me and I’d be happy to post them! I’d say that it’s a good thing to do with the kids – but my own child is distinctly unimpressed with my ideas. Of course, that might be because he’s still holding on to memories of the time I dragged him down to the beach in February, so that I could spend an hour trying to get the perfect shots of Lego pirates in the sand!

Finally this week… if you should happen to be a member of the Women’s Classical Committee (UK), don’t forget to vote in the election! Not that there’s any particular candidate for whom you ought to vote, of course…!