about me

I am a middle aged man in his mid-50s who lives in Adelaide, Australia. Currently I work as a systems analyst/programmer for a large public hospital. In a past life I spent 13 years as a secondary school teacher of mathematics, chemistry and physics. My non-LEGO® interests (past and present) include bush walking, camping, sound engineering, electronics, photography, meteorology, flying and aeroplanes.

Unlike many adult fans of LEGO® (AFOL) I did not have LEGO® as a child. Not that I wasn't interested - we just could not afford it. My mechanical creativity had to find outlet in a Meccano set that was never big enough for my liking. I got hooked when my eldest daughter became a 7 year old. It was while looking for more LEGO® for her birthday that I discovered LEGO® Technic. It took very little time for me to realise the potential of building with such sets so naturally I bought one for my daughter. However, it quickly became apparent that I was more interested in it than she was and so I began buying my own sets. At first it was a bit embarrassing but when I discovered that I was not a lone AFOL in this world (thanks to the internet) I opened up more and my friends quickly got used to the idea that I still liked to play with LEGO®. Over the intervening years I have vowed several times not to buy any more sets (I thought I had enough pieces) but LEGO® just keep bringing out irresistable models, and so my collection continues to build, albeit slowly.

On the world scale of things my inventory is not very big but here it is:

	8082	Multi-model electric set.
	8460	Mobile crane (6 wheel).
	8431	Mobile crane (6 wheel). A re-released 8460 with very minor changes. I bought this set because it had a good supply of parts.
	8480	Space shuttle. This model has to be a contender for one of the best Technic models LEGO® ever released.
	8459	Articulated front end loader.
	8479	Code Pilot.
	8455	Front end loader with back hoe. This set has more pneumatic pistons than you could "throw a stick at". (Please excuse the Australian coloquialism.)
	8421	Large mobile crane (8 wheel).
	8289	Fire rescue truck.
	9747	Mindstorms Robotics Invention System 1.5.
	3804	Mindstorms Robotics Invention System 2.0 (2 of these).
	3800	Ultimate Builders Set.
	8527	Mindstorms NXT (2 of these).
	8275	Power Functions bulldozer. This set would have to vie with the space shuttle for best Technic set ever.
	8294	Excavator with linear actuators.

contact me

Comments or questions are welcome.Please feel free to email me at norama.99@gmail.com .

about this site

This site was created by writing HTML in Microsoft's Notepad editor. The photographs were taken with an Olympus C-310 3.2 megapixel digital camera and then shrunk and clipped using Microsoft Paint. The two-colour fade effect was generated in Microsoft Powerpoint. The Fox and Hound photos were taken with a Fuji Finepix F50fd 12 megapixel camera.