It’s the 50th birthday of the Lego brick. I’d read somewhere that originally Lego did not make green or brown bricks so that no-one used the bricks for tanks or war toys. Now that weaponry’s more sophisticated there are a good number of Star Wars, Batman or alien battles to be had – ‘though still no tanks.

Batman doesn’t make it to the Brick Testament (unless there’s a reference in The Boy’s Bible with its strapline, ‘Finally a Bible just for boys’) but there are a few jokes.

We looked at Mark 10 on Sunday which included the camel and eye of the needle trick. The answer to the camel and needle seems to be either to grease the camel and invest in a large liquidiser and a big syringe – or when that doesn’t work, go, sell, give to the poor and follow the Rabbi Jesus.

I had 31 verses to get through on Sunday so it was definitely a case of less is more. I remembered afterwards that there was a good camel-
shoving quote from Richard Branson in 1994 when he was asked why he wanted to run the lottery franchise for charity and not for profit and he said:

Well, I hope to make the eye of the needle a little bit larger when I come to the end of my days.

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Now playing: Pete Seeger – Little Boxes
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