Today is primarily a Lego Build Day
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Timestamp: 20240715_100835. Stickers are something that Robbie does not like. Neither do I, so he has decided to only apply the essential visible stickers. We start today by building the stand for the shuttle. |
| Timestamp: 20240715_104211. The stand is complete. Time taken: 34 minutes |
| Timestamp: 20240715_112614. Now we have built the first part of the wing Time taken: 44 minutes |
| Timestamp: 20240715_114718. After a short break, we begin work on bag 6. |
| Timestamp: 20240715_121002. Bag 6 has completed the base frame for the shuttle, and we now have a good idea of its overall size. Time taken: 23 minutes |
| Timestamp: 20240715_131853. After a break for lunch, we are about to get underway again. |
| Timestamp: 20240715_140251. Some of the wing has been filled in. In a later bag, the fixings of these blue plates would cause us a problem, and the removal of them and some re-work to re-position pieces under them would make the wing more solid. Time taken: 44 minutes |
| Timestamp: 20240715_140755. Bag 8 had been opened in error earlier than it should have been. We had attempted to separate out the pieces correctly, but this bag really had us holding our breath. |
| Timestamp: 20240715_143606. Bag 8 was completed without incident. Time taken: 29 minutes |
| Timestamp: 20240715_173555. Time for bag 9 - with a dot under the number to distinguish it from bag 6. |
| Timestamp: 20240715_175918. The wings are now completed, but one side does not sit completely flat. The reason for this is noted above. Time Taken: 20 minutes |
| Timestamp: 20240715_184255. Now the engines have been added. Time Taken: 42 minutes |
| Timestamp: 20240715_204129. The rear infrastructure behind the cargo bay has been added. The start picture is missing, but this bag was not too difficult, so I am going to estimate 30 minutes. Time Taken: 30 minutes (est) |
Total time building the shuttle today is 266 minutes or 4 hours 26 minutes.
Other things that happened today:
Two of Karen's teacher friends visited us. It was good to meet them and to know that she has already made some good friends during her short time in her new school. Karen had made scones, and we discussed cream teas a little. Jam first, or cream? The answer is here https://www.seriouseats.com/british-cream-tea-correct-order-5225936 part of which is repeated below:
Devonians lay claim to the first ever cream tea being served in Tavistock Abbey in the 11th century. Following Viking raids in the year 997, the Abbey was damaged and had to be restored. Fragments of manuscripts written by monks from this time, and discovered by local Devonian historians, tell us that the Earl of Devon, Ordulf, rewarded his workers with bread, clotted cream, and a strawberry preserve. At some point down the line, the bread was replaced with scones and the cream tea was realized. This, according to Devonians, was the original cream tea and was served cream first and then jam, and still is today—the right way, if you ask me. Devonians say the cream is like butter and forms the base of the scone “sandwich.”
Which ever way you choose does not affect the taste, and all of us agreed the scones were very good. Other English topics were covered a little, as was our general family history, but I'm not going to repeat those stories here!
There was also a little discussion of ex-president Trump, as he was shot yesterday.
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