My latest Lego project

I can't tell you much about it yet but I've been playing with Lego again (as if the first time wasn't time consuming enough).

This is the state of our dining room after weeks of waking in the night with a new idea, immediate eBay searches and lots of late night bidding.

It's all for the work Christmas competition so I'll tell you more in December...

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