Girders'R'Us, it's True, Man

Recently we saw an advert for Lego building in the Spinnaker Tower, keep your brats happy during half-term, that kind of thing.
Sadly we have no brats (honest) but we went along anyway. First I bought a load of new shoes, not a cheap task but made all the more necessary by Bud putting my entire shoe collection in on a hot wash last weekend and then laughing at the flashing LEDs going round and round the drum.
Hot wash plus little shoes = bad news. So then Jof bought a handbag in retaliation, for you can never have too many shoes or handbags, just ask Imelda Marcos.
Jof advises us to avoid pizza emporia when we go out on one of our days out so that's exactly what we did, Pizza Express this time, and Jof's pizza was soggy until the nice man said well it's supposed to be, if you wanted the crispy one you have to ask for it.
In the Tower itself you get a view. This has always been the case but still, you need to elevate yourself to 700 yards or whatever above sea level every now and then without recourse to "Worri-B-Gone" herbal mixtures.
I did go on the biggest glass floor in Europe a few times but mostly I headed straight for the Lego boxes and trestle tables and Oh yes, the organisers had done well. Gunwharf and the tower were full of families and kids (shouldn't they be at school?) but I got a place and so did Jof and we built competing towers and they provided loads of excellent girders.
Jof did one that starts narrow and gets wider higher up - she said it was for built-up areas. Mine was towery and later (you can get back in if you have the stamp on your hand) I made a Salisbury Cathedral Medieval Radio Mast, which I used to laser Jof.
In the evening we had an on-demand movie called the Truman Show which I liked because it was all pretend but there was a lot I didn't understand.