Stoffel76

If you see a llama you must shout, "Look out, there are llamas!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbwkkXGmFrI

Nice! No Lego for anyone this Christmas, but my daughter (aka Lord Business) dispacted her micromanagers (aka Dad) to organise all her Lego sets... so we just finished a marathon Lego building session where we built all of her sets... I'm all Elves and Friends lego'ed out... Differentiating between different shades of pink and purple piecies!

Oooh, I see the 2017 Lego models are out... I want this one... https://www.lego.com/en-gb/technic/products/bmw-r-1200-gs-adventure-42063

Takealot have loads of Lego on special at the moment... #justsaying

So we had friends kids over on Saturday night to babysit... The two 5 years old girls were watching Barbie (or something equaling soul destroying for boys) so I got out my old Technic Lego for the 8 year old boy... We built a very basic rolling chassis with steering. My daughter looks at it and says "Is that all?" "Is that all?" Pfftt, sounds like a gauntlet been thrown down! Challenge accepted then! And this was what I ended up with... Something Lotus 7ish inspired: http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn94/stoffel30/DSC_0023_zpszr77b6cn.jpg My two year boy, trying not to destroy it: http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn94/stoffel30/DSC_0029_zpsbckrfnib.jpg

I don't know... If that were me in the cage, I'd have involuntarily produced a cloud of brown stuff that would cut down the visibility!!

Kinda what I was thinking... probably just not worth the effort... Oh well, guess I have to keep a look out for a longer lens now...

Does anyone know if there is an 'easy' fix to get an older Sigma lens from the film era to work on a current EOS digital camera? After too long, I finally got a DSLR (a secondhand EOS 550D, just to get my foot in the door so to speak - a 70D would have been nicer but some reason my wife thinks paying the kids school fees is more important than taking up an old hobby... ) and, as I still have my old film EOS 5 camera and lenses taking up space in the cupboard, it would have been very nice if my Sigma 75-300mm lens worked with the 550D but it gives an Err 01 screen...

Me too... Not sure about it yet, but it's only been one episode... Will see how the story develops, but the production seemed slick... I suspect it should be rated for SNVL (that's Sunsets Nature Vistas and Landscapes for all the gratuitous Cape Town scenery scenes that did seem rather randomly thrown in... But then it is called 'Cape Town' )

Talking about having odd bits, the odd thing is that in the same box as I found the ships, were bits of a Tente spaceship and astronaut... Only I don't ever remember having a spaceship!!

Not Lego, but I dug this out while visiting my mom over the weekend. It was called Tente, apparently discontinued a while back. Anyone else have any? Bit more fragile/brittle than Lego... http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn94/stoffel30/DSC_0683_zpsyzesx78z.jpg

Was messing about with a stop motion app I downloaded on my phone and my son's pirate Lego... It was done very roughly (phone was handheld etc) as I was just experimenting, but I was pleasantly surprised: https://youtu.be/nW4yMHwS0no

No instructions... Just the way every master builder prefers it!!

Darn you Takealot!! They sent me a "we haven't seen you for a while so here's a R50 voucher if you spend R250 or more oh and by the way it expires in a couple of days" email the other day... So, I had to order something (Right?). And it just so happened that these two sets totalled R254, so 50 bucks off makes it a good deal (Right? At least that's what I told the Mrs): http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn94/stoffel30/DSC_0434_zpsjon8nr3n.jpg and http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn94/stoffel30/DSC_0436_zpscdigvvr5.jpg And I have very happy kids... So our last few evenings have been spent building the different models... http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn94/stoffel30/DSC_0448_zpsn8vwcqvy.jpg http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn94/stoffel30/DSC_0440_zpsimd25wfo.jpg http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn94/stoffel30/DSC_0442_zpslffwfutn.jpg Anyway, better go home now... My daughter's expecting to build the owl tonight!

So when my wife asked my daughter what she wanted to get me for my birthday, she said Lego... ( I love that child!!) So my birthday morning was spent building this: http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn94/stoffel30/DSC_0302_zpsypou8thb.jpg

The ostrich isn't chasing them... it's racing them. They must have beaten his Strava time on 'his' segment of road... It a stravasshole ostrich!!

Sorry if this is slight highjack, but on the topic of male cancers and early detection etc... http://www.daredevilrun.com/ Next Friday the 19th... and for a good cause... Anyone else going?

I was at my mom's place the other day and dug my old Technic Lego out the cupboard... Brought back some old memories! http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn94/stoffel30/DSC_0179_zpsgzgvggiq.jpg Not too bad - 30 odd years later and only 1 piece missing. But a few of the grey parts went brittle though with age and are broken... But managed to still make everything function.

I will not keep checking to see if Takealot have Lego on special! I will not keep checking to see if Takealot have Lego on special! I will not keep checking to see if Takealot have Lego on special! I... just... can't... not... check! [Goes online] Oooh, look, the Lego Movie dvd reduced to just R39! [Places order]

Lego building session on the 26th of Dec... http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn94/stoffel30/DSC_0093_zpsqlvncksm.jpg Between these and then helping all the cousins build their small Star Wars sets on Christmas Day, I was almost all Lego'ed out! Oh wait... It's not possible to be tired of building Lego!

So my daughter says to me this evening, "Daddy, what do you want for Christmas?" I was about to say the usual biltong but before I can, she says, "Daddy, I'm going to get you some Lego!" She's only four and half - Love this kid!! I then remembered I had a R100 Takealot voucher... so I bought me my Christmas presents from the kids: http://www.takealot.com/lego-technic-record-breaker/PLID34171416 And this to get a set of wheels to go with her Friends Lego: http://www.takealot.com/lego-city-snowplow-truck-60083/PLID34169993

http://www.takealot.com/all?dcat=lego-star-wars-flash-sale

Apparently my brother-in-law is spoiling his niece this Christmas with this: http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Ariel-s-Undersea-Palace-41063 Guess I'll be building Lego with my daughter on Christmas Day... (and then trying to work out some more 'interesting' creations... I may also buy her a small set that has a car in it... I'm desperate for some wheels to work with!! )

My daughter has Friends Lego and Barbie Megabloks... The Megabloks just doesn't feel quite the same or go together as well as the Lego... you can't beat the original!! She got the Barbie Megabloks first and it was really frustrating at first, trying to build cool stuff out of the pretty limited pieces meant to make salons and pet shops, but then as she got more Friend Lego, the possibilities started to expand and I was able to create this: http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn94/stoffel30/10891816_913723148651537_6398216928288859766_n_zps1lte9549.jpg But it turned out the Friends Lego scorpion wasn't compatible with the Megabloks Barbie... http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn94/stoffel30/1491729_914231385267380_5914197982438346633_n_zpsxyrozkku.jpg Then the arrival of a Lego Juice Bar set, resulted in a Planet 57 inspired hover laser craft: http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn94/stoffel30/DSC_0366_zpszfbczksc.jpg And then the other day, I managed 3 spacecraft/fighters with what was left after we built the Barbie's a house... http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn94/stoffel30/DSC_0021_zpsnzk3xvvi.jpg Actually, I don't care what I build, some of the best conversations I've had with my daughter have been while sitting on her bedroom floor building Lego...

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