Thank you ever so much (both you and others) for the nice words about my "English quarter"
Our AFOL-life actually started with tecnich (with a homemade advent calendar back in 1999), but that is mainly my husband’s interest. In 2001 we did invest in our first train (a 4561 – iiiikkk!), and already then we said something in the line of “We can afford this train set on sale, but we can not afford to start collecting trains”. Since then we’ve invested in just about every 9v train set that’s been available (for a deeper insight our Lugnet-set list is available) – but I do not do much train MOC’s as of now.
I grew up with the 70's villas, the Homemaker and Fabuland-sets and eventually some town. Entering my dark ages around 1984, I do not belong to any of the classic trenches when it comes to “childhood loves”. I never had any space or castle or pirates... although I did have the Indian family. And in early days as an AFOL the 3739 was quite a revelation!
I tend to like quite a few of the adventure sets - all the way back to the Egypt series that was for sale when we came out. Lately I tend to get sets that look interesting, and I enjoy the creator houses and quite a few of the other creator sets, and off course the Cafe Corner and its followers. I am way past the state of building everything at the moment I come home from the store. I have unopened boxes all over, but like to build sets to see the Lego designers' technique. Lately I’ve been getting the Indy sets and quite a lot of town and castle. But in the end I like to build my own stuff and fill it with enough female minifigs to resemble real life
Hope this gives a bit more insight in my angle on Lego theme
aj-ml