Hamish Blake

He's 11 now, so I know we haven't hit the – the waters are starting to get a little bit choppy, but we haven't hit the full rapids of the teenage years yet.

That is a big thing for me actually as a dad, is trying to just do things that are just connected to either –

Just nature or just for the fun of adventure rather than being stuck inside or stuck on a screen.

I mean, that's creativity.

That is creativity.

And we all have it in us.

It's also just creating the conditions for imagination.

I think play and imagination is a huge part of childhood, but I think it's a huge part of life.

It is a big part of what my professional career is.

I think kind of trying to hang on to that.

part of your childhood that's imaginative and and playful and just doing things literally just for fun you know that when you're a kid doing things just for the fun of it seems like a good enough goal for an activity and then as we get older doing things just for the fun of it oh it just seems you know it's regarded so that's frivolous that's like well there's more important things to do but i do think doing things just for the fun of it is should be is a high is high on the hierarchy of importance like you should do things just for the fun of it

So, yeah, as a parent, like, I think, especially with little kids, and I, again, I can only really speak with any experience of what it's like to have a child up to the age of 11, but...

just creating the conditions for them to be imaginative.

I think sometimes that's all you need.

I was really guilty of it too, especially when my little boy was young, did all the stuff like, you know, I remember buying him a Lego set that this was before the Lego show came along.

I was going to say, then I got Lego for free.

I don't actually, I still have to buy it, but people think I get it for free.

So it's,

You don't pick a little piece up every now and then.

I steal a lot from the show, but yeah.