{"id":17629,"date":"2025-10-06T06:41:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T05:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=17629"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:11:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:11:42","slug":"chrtisty-brown-jules-video-and-lego-mindstorms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2025\/10\/06\/chrtisty-brown-jules-video-and-lego-mindstorms\/","title":{"rendered":"Christy Brown, Jules Video and LEGO MIndstorms."},"content":{"rendered":"

I started to make a list of PAN published authors who may have been born or died around the date of a blog. Looks like I fell at the first hurdle as I had Christy Brown<\/span><\/strong><\/a> down as dying on the 7th October when in fact it was September. Not wanting to waste the scans of his titles and editions I have, I’m sharing them now. I’m sure I have the 1971 edition of ‘Down All The Days’<\/span><\/strong><\/em> but can I find it hence a cover taken from the web as a temporary stop gap. Christy Brown was an Irish writer and painter born in Dublin (05\/06\/1932) He had cerebral palsy and could only write or type with the toes of one foot. His is probably most well known for his autobiography ‘My Left Foot’<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a> which was later made into a 1989 Academy Award-winning film of the same name. He died in Somerset aged 49 (07\/09\/1981)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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Another excellent video from Jules Burt has him looking through his PAN Majors and later titles<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. I love to see those covers although as usual there are one or two clunkers amongst them.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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I have been a bit distracted recently playing with my newly acquired LEGO set of ‘Mindstorms’ When I retired, but returned to work part time, I went round schools with 15 sets trying to get the pupils to use them. I found it very frustrating wanting to do it all for them as most didn’t have a clue but knew I couldn’t. I’ve hankered after a set ever since and finally bit the bullet and looked on eBay. There were sets at all prices but I found one of version 2.0 at a good price and which I prefer because of the computer programming software rather than the later version 3.0. I started to watch it expecting it to soar but was out on the night it closed so image my surprise the next day\u00a0 to get an offer of 50% off as it hadn’t sold. I’m now really enjoying myself with LEGO\u00a0 having nearly forgotten how much fun it is, dare I say almost as much fun as collecting PAN books?<\/span><\/p>\n\n

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Amazon still sell version 2.0 for \u00a3422, I paid \u00a329.50!<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I started to make a list of PAN published authors who may have been born or died around the date of a blog. Looks like I fell at the first hurdle as I had Christy Brown down as dying on the 7th October when in fact it was September. Not wanting to waste the scans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}