The Wellington Brickshow 2024 was coming up in September, but way back in February, Well-LUG member Phil Bradshaw floated the idea around the club of doing a collaborative (collab) display based on the 'Lego Friends' theme. This piqued my interest. I've always been fond of the Friends theme sets for the colours and parts, but … Continue reading Building Lego® Friends Heartlake City
On Monday 6 June 2022, the final episode of Lego Masters New Zealand was aired, and my teammate Glenn Knight and I were in it. We were watching the episode with my friends and their kids at their off-grid home near Auckland. The generator had to be turned off during the ad break so as … Continue reading Our Journey to Becoming Lego® Masters NZ Champions
Well the dust has settled after an epic project to bring a 'low carbon' future vision of my local community to life with Lego bricks. My previous blog entry explains how this came about and why. Lego Low Carbon Kāpiti 2025 was a community project built by forty-three Lego fans of all ages working together. … Continue reading We did it! Building a Lego Low Carbon Kāpiti
Back in 2013, I was sitting at my desk at Kāpiti Coast District Council wrestling with this problem – how do I show the difference between LED streetlights and the old-style orange sodium streetlights in the middle of a sports field on a sunny day? The field and day in question was the upcoming 2014 … Continue reading Building a model ‘low carbon’ community from Lego®
I'm pleased to have had some of my thoughts of the role of local government in addressing the climate crisis published in an article on the Pure Advantage website. You can read them here. I've got plenty more to say on this topic, so expect some follow up articles in the future. The photograph I took to go … Continue reading Leading the Leaders – Pure Advantage
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