Boys lego talk

Good morning from the perishing scene as temperatures went below minus two degrees while this entry was being typed up.

This place has always been about and for just us - B.O.Y.S. - and nobody else to be ourselves, talking only about what matters and is of interest to us.

There's no need to make everything 'girl friendly' and they're the first to 'demand' own spaces so let's just keep ours for us.

It's a lot more realistic and more enjoyable.

Given the weather has been enough to freeze brass monkeys off I spent a bit more time indoors this week  playing with my Action Man and my lego.

I was at one site where a few people did talk about making things from lego and one was making the themed kits and the Lego Friends more girl friendly range seems to amount for more girls play and more pink bricks involved.

Okay, given this person was a (adult) little girl I kind of get why you might go for that but it's a bit restricting compared with the traditional "Classic" range which never set any limits on what you could make.

In the light of that why did they feel the need to introduce pink bricks into the classic range as a standard at the expense of more traditional colours if they honestly felt girls didn't want the lego we played with and to whom our sisters and cousins would borrow?

To me that's a no-win, girls get pushed down a pink gender stereotype while we have something that's a bit less use to us and honestly most boys wouldn't wish for pink in their toys.

Personally I'd sooner so more white and light brown house brick shade colour bricks in the sets as they are of more use.