Stinky

Hi,

My name is Jan Folkersma, I live in Holland (aka The Netherlands) in a small village near Breda in

the south of this small country. Born in 1966 (yes I'm that old) I was brought up with Lego. I think the

first set my parents got me was the 331.

Much later, for my 8th birthday I got the 12Volt 723 locomotive.

A few years later I bought with my own money the first Technic sets 850 and 853.

Then I left my parents house to go to University and went into my dark ages. But as soon as computers and

this Internet thingy caught me, I discovered LDraw and rendering. I even won the prestigious 'Scene of the

Month' contest with this render of my virtual Lego room.

Getting out of the dark ages also meant that I began buying all the old sets that I wanted when I was younger

but my parents could not afford. I got almost all sets from the years between 1966 and 1974. Many of them in

original box. In 2002 I got married and went into the dark ages again... In 2006 and in 2008 my daughter and

son were born. At the moment they are getting me out of the dark ages again. First we got them Duplo but now

they want real Legos. I won't let them play with my Pat-Pend treasures but I'm getting them new sets. I'm really

pleasantly surprised by the quality and playability of this *new* Lego.

My wife is also trying to get me to play again since this is what she got me for my 46th birthday:

Today I'm buying all the old sets I still don't have. Shamefully I discovered that I was buying sets

that I already had so I had to start making an inventory of what I have. This was lots of work but

also lots of fun. I found all my H0 1:87 cars for example.