Wet Sunday afternoon

Welcome to the first instalment, of a two post blog! 

Well guys and girls!! Its me the cycling blogger again. here with my second post ever! and your all invited to this exclusive posting! you lucky gits!!

Well what's been happing since I last blogged!? Well work has been going well, and i have been given approval  of my visa, sadly only the first half of it....But this means I can now go to London and get the full thing  YAY, so that will be happening very soon hopefully! So You will all be able to read posts from the US and about what I'm doing :-).

But I thought that today being a typical English Sunday, with the weather to match....Wet, windy and lots of it.So I thought I would let you all have a touch light view into who I am a bit more. More to allow you to understand me better and allow you to connect with me, then anything else. So milky tea, with the bag left in, and apple at the ready, lets start writing!

So light on, and pointing at me!

During this wet Sunday afternoon, I have un-boxed one of my resent purchases. Its a Lego set, yes, I know at the age of 23 I am a bit old to be buying and collecting Lego, but that is not something that is ever going to stop me! Im an engineer, and so will always have an obsession with toys, and making things, its kida hard-coded into us, so you might as well accept it, and enjoy it. Any ways back to the point in hand, the Lego kit that I have brought and unpacked is kit 9393 (tractor with hay-spreader on the back) now your properly wondering two things? Why that kit? And why buy a Lego kit in the first place?

Well to tackle the first question, the reason for buying this kit, is because in my heart, I'm a farmer, I love anything to do with farming. And given the chance I would go off and do it at a moments notice. Thinking back it is something that I should have really gone off and done, when I was looking at leaving school. But being the person I was back then, I had a lot of respect and idealised my dad, (of which I still do, but no longer in the same way I did back then. That's more my age then anything else). He had gone down the path of looking after farm machines, and large mechanical vehicles  and advised me against doing it. The reason behind steering me away from this path was due to the long hours of which you have to do, the small amount of pay you can get from doing it and all of the danger that comes with doing such a job.

I can see why he did it, he didn't like it and didn't want me to make the same mistake, and have to spend my nights like him gaining the skills required to leave that path. So he steered me towards both our current carer choice paths (electronic engineering).
Of which I am now fully submersed in, and sometimes I feel like I am very much drowning in, or at least it feels like it. Luckily its not all of the time, but there are a lot of moments, mainly in the last couples of weeks that I am and its all of the time.
But I do have my dad to thank a lot for, and for doing  all of he has done for me, as t has opened up some amazing doors for me, and it has allowed me to meet some amazing people and most of all it has given me the chance to go to the US. So thanks you father, but I do sometimes wish you had let me follow a dream, if only for a little while. And I wouldn't have been able to do that without him, his support and for sending me down that path in the first place.

But within me there still is that small 16yr old boy that wants to be a farmer and work in the outside world, so to keep him happy and amuse the older exterior at the same time I can sometimes be found watching, building (normally in Lego form) or playing with, (this time via my computer) farm machinery. 
It's something I get the feeling that is not going to leave me ever, and I feel will come in handy later on in life, in some form or another.

The reason why, I brought the Lego kit, is because for the last week I haven't been to well. And while sat at my PC, I thought I should cheer myself up, but getting myself something shiny and new. And its been so long since I brought anything purely for myself, that as for my amusement only, its all recently been things for the US, or because I have needed them, like my new glasses and shoes. And while thinking of things to by I glanced at my current Lego modal on my desk, that was brought by a old mate of mine, how I have now lived with for two years. Its a very basic but cute mini telehander (8045) normally found on billing sites and farms etc. (loner reaching version of a forklift truck). And so I thought I would have a look on the Lego website to see if they had any new models, and well you can guess what I thought. So that's why I brought the Lego kit. But the problem is, once you buy one new kit, its very very hard not to want to buy another one.

How does an engineer make a Lego kit?

So how does a 23yr old engineer go about making a new Lego kit? well normally for small builds is rip open the box, empty all the parts on to the carpet and get started. But with this kit being the biggest kit I have undertaken I think ever, I have gone for a very OCD approach, and have sorted everything in the packets into neat little piles or collections on the desk in front of me, which has gratefully reduced my working space, but I hope the advantage of now having to "scrunch" (any big Lego fan, or anyone with a lot of Lego will get what I mean here) my way through the parts to find the bit I need next. (O and if you don't know what I mean by "scrunch", that the sound Lego makes when digging through it, or when your moving it over its self, go into a Lego shop and try it, if you don't believe me. Also have to thank my Mother and older brother for coming up for that word to describe that sound...ask in a comment if you want to know why).

But having now written this post, I'm now out of tea, that I started this blog with and the apple I was eating is now a brown apple core on the desk next to the mug. So its time to refuel the Lego maker with tea, start the building process, and then write another entire to let you all know how it went.

Wish me luck!

blogging cyclist