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Clever little bricks.
I was never very good at Lego. Being a naturally disruptive child, I had more fun discovering non-traditional uses for those "clever little bricks". There was a very dark phase in my childhood where we would build small Lego houses, only to then melt them down in miniature fires. Wimbledon common was littered with the smouldering remains of our little plastic burn-outs. Don't try this at home kids.
While my little pyromaniac friends and I were busy with our tiny infernos, there was always another group of children who were able to do amazing things with Lego - like building life-size replicas of the Queen, or working models of Big Ben that would get shown on TV programmes like Blue Peter.
Years later, while little pyromaniacs grew up to become journalists, other Lego fans have continued making nifty things out of plastic bricks - like printers.
I'm not 100% convinced that this is real, but if it is, it's very cool. A Lego-dot-matrix style printer, using Lego and a felt tip pen. Retro in so many brilliant ways.
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