29th March, 2009 - Ten Toys I Remember #5

Stickle bricks stand out pretty strongly as the first toy that I ever truly loved (teddy bears, perhaps, excluded). I don’t know if stickle bricks were common, but I loved them. They seemed to my small mind, nothing short of miraculous – they were not sticky (in the way that jam or glue is sticky) and yet they were sticky (in some sort of marvellous way).

I have a feeling that, if only stickle bricks were subjected to proper scientific study, they might well prove to be the solution to the housing crisis.