KateB

Hi from West Yorkshire, England

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Hi all

I've been lurking around on Eurobricks for a while then suddenly realised I hadn't introduced myself - how rude!

So...my name's Kate, I'm 34 years old and I live in West Yorkshire, England. I started playing with Lego when I was a little girl and would spend hours building Lego houses and furniture with a bucket full of very basic blocks and one base plate. If I remember correctly the base plate I had was very thick, not like the really flimsy ones these days, or did I just imagine that?!

Then unfortunately I grew up and didn't really touch Lego until one day in 2004 when I went into the Lego shop in Birmingham, whilst visiting my brother who lives down there and spotted a Lego house (4886-Building Bonanza). Now up until this point I had not thought about Lego in years and had no idea they had started making Creator houses or that it had such an adult following. It was like love at first sight, it was amazing. I was instantly sent back in time to the feeling I had as a child building my houses. I had to have it, though the 'social conformity' part of my brain was telling me I was being childish - mostly I ignore that part of me as I think we should all be allowed to retain at least part of our 'inner child' in any way we want to. I spent days torturing myself, I wanted it so badly! Eventually I begged my brother to buy it for me and said I would pay him back. He did one better, he got it for me and said it was an early Christmas present! Since then I have acquired 6 houses and love them all.

So I would say my Lego passion is very focused as it's purely houses that I love to build. My goal is to build a haunted mansion from scratch in the future (I love the spooky stuff!) but as I have very little creative talent, it will certainly be a challenge! Eventually I would really like to replicate really nice houses that I see out and about in Lego. Wouldn't it be fantastic if you could earn a living building models of people's own houses to order and they would pay you loads of money for them!!?? (well, I can dream :-)

So that's my Lego story and I look forward to chatting and browsing the forums with fellow Lego fans. Thank you for letting me join you :-)

Edited by KateB

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Welcome aboard. Nice idea getting siblings to do the buying. I did that before with my sister except she wanted to be paid back. :classic:

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Good to see another English lass on the forums :classic:

Welcome to Eurobricks, I'm sure you will have a great time. The modular/Creator houses are very popular with adult fans so no worries there!

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Welcome to Eurobricks, Kate. I'm from North Yorkshire so it's nice to know there's other LEGO fans in our region!

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Welcome to Eurobricks KateB, I hope that you have a good time on the forums! :classic:

~buddy~

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Hello Kate, great to read your introduction - I'm sure you'll find plenty of info on the CREATOR houses sets in the Special Themes forum and naturally there are the classic town house sets in (oddly enough :grin:) the town forum! Have a good look around, though, as there's loads more here to see and do!

While you're having a look around, though, be sure to stop by here and ask for your shiny pink star, too! :sweet:

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Welcome aboard. Nice idea getting siblings to do the buying. I did that before with my sister except she wanted to be paid back. :classic:

Thank you :-) Yes, it is a bit crafty I admit. I reckon if you just keep droning on and on about Lego to your whole family eventually it will become so ingrained in their brains that they just automatically buy you Lego if they happen to spot it in the shops ;-)

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Thank you for all the warm welcomes, nice to know there are Lego fans nearby :-)

Now, I really should do some work but there are soooo many posts to read...

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Thank you for all the warm welcomes, nice to know there are Lego fans nearby :-)

Now, I really should do some work but there are soooo many posts to read...

Welcome to the forum.

Edited by Alasdair Ryan

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Welcome to Eurobricks! I'm glad you joined! Hope to see some of your creations soon :classic:

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Good to see more Yorkshire folk on here.( I'm from West Yorks too) I would love to get into the modular houses as a first time buyer but prices are way too high :tongue: Welcome to the forums

Edited by Bendybadger

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Thank you :-) Yes, it is a bit crafty I admit. I reckon if you just keep droning on and on about Lego to your whole family eventually it will become so ingrained in their brains that they just automatically buy you Lego if they happen to spot it in the shops ;-)

I should try droning. They'll either get me Lego or disown me. :laugh:

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