Towers of Duplo

Following the purchase noticed at reference 1, we have now got around to building a proper tower. Having taken rather longer than I had at that time expected.

The young lady in charge of levels and that kind of thing snapped above. Note crash helmet in case of accidents, of which there was one on this occasion. Probably the first deployment of the level for some years, as I more usually use the smaller version which lives in my carpentry tool box. Standard issue when I was young, the brown wood is now largely replaced by open plan steel affairs, often in yellow rather than brown. Or are they aluminium?

The view from near the base. Locked into place on the ceiling with two layers. Layer one, a kitchen towel draped over the Duplo summit plate. Layer two, some sheets of A4 white paper jammed between the towel and the ceiling. Combined action of the two layers giving quite a decent lock onto the ceiling. 

The tricky bit was getting the last section of Duplo into place, which involved bending the tower over and fiddling the section onto its prongs before pushing the tower back up. Level action needed at this point.

The scene the following morning, when there was enough natural light coming in from the west to get a reasonable snap. The tower was vertical and I think the leaning is down to telephone distortion of verticals, rather than someone bumping into it during the evening. For more distortion see reference 2.

Quite a bit of Duplo still to go, so perhaps next time we can start fatter and reduce a little slower.

BH insisted that the tower was dismantled before she would serve lunch. There are limits.

PS 1: as far as I can recall, the last time we built such a tower, possibly in Norwich, back in the eighties of the last century, we used small Lego rather than Duplo and quite of lot of Technic, getting most of the height with vertical Technic beams, rather than with horizontal bricks. With three large wheels from some vehicular set providing the base.

PS 2: quilt over the back of the sofa from a correspondent near Perth in Western Australia. According to Bing, a surprisingly whizzy looking place.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2021/11/fake-133.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/02/week-nine-c.html. The aloe may be onto its second reducing and repotting since this time - the last time being only a month or so ago, so no flower head likely for some time, certainly not this winter.