Lo! Please find attached this year’s improved #ChristmasIsland flag. Happy Christmas! 🇨🇽

#Morocco v #Comoros to kick off #AFCON - love it! 🇲🇦🇰🇲

#WorldCupDraw Cape Verde, Curaçao, Jordan and Uzbekistan 🇨🇻🇨🇼🇯🇴🇺🇿

My favourite flags with crowns on them are those of #Liechtenstein, #Montenegro, #SanMarino and #Serbia, and now I’m basically out of #FlagTypes ideas. Anyone got any suggestions? 🇱🇮🇲🇪🇸🇲🇷🇸

These #FlagTypes have a fat horizontal stripe, with thinner stripes above and below that are the same colour as each other (if there’s a fancy vexillological name for this, I don’t know it): #Cambodia, #Lebanon, #Mauritania and #Spain 🇰🇭🇱🇧🇲🇷🇪🇸

I’ll be honest, I’m starting to run out of #FlagTypes categories, but flags with borders is a brilliant one and #Grenada, the #Maldives, #Nepal and #SriLanka are worthy winners 🇬🇩🇲🇻🇳🇵🇱🇰

What if a flag contains a single star but it’s not in the middle? My winners in this competitive #FlagTypes category are the #CentralAfricanRepublic, #Chile, #GuineaBissau and #Togo 🇨🇫🇨🇱🇬🇼🇹🇬

A reminder of the time I made #NewZealand replacement Damian McKenzie out of Lego, but for some reason he wasn’t wearing any shorts 🇳🇿

I selected my favourite #FlagTypes with a single star in the middle, and only then realised that - rather delightfully - I’d picked four different colours of star. Whether they’re actually star-shaped in Lego is a different matter: #Ghana, #Morocco, #Myanmar and #Vietnam 🇬🇭🇲🇦🇲🇲🇻🇳

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I love a good fimbriation (just look at my #FlagTypes selections for diagonal stripes and Nordic crosses), and it’s an African clean sweep in the fimbriated horizontal stripes category: #Botswana, #Gambia, #Kenya and #SouthSudan 🇧🇼🇬🇲🇰🇪🇸🇸

If you seek a central circle in your #FlagTypes, it’s #Burundi, #Dominica, #Japan and #SouthKorea you want 🇧🇮🇩🇲🇯🇵🇰🇷

#FlagTypes There are surprisingly few national flags with a central cross, but it’s a high-quality field and the best ones are those of the #DominicanRepublic, #Georgia, #Switzerland and the #UnitedKingdom 🇩🇴🇬🇪🇨🇭🇬🇧

For #FlagTypes with plants or trees featuring prominently, there’s no need to branch out any further than #Canada, #Cyprus, #Lebanon and #SanMarino 🇨🇦🇨🇾🇱🇧🇸🇲

#FlagTypes My favourite flags with weapons on them are those of #Barbados, #Eswatini, #Kenya and #Oman 🇧🇧🇸🇿🇰🇪🇴🇲

Flags featuring animals (not including birds) are today’s #FlagTypes, and my favourites are #Croatia, #Malta, #Mexico and #SriLanka. You have to look quite closely to see some of the animals on the actual flags, let alone the Lego versions… 🇭🇷🇲🇹🇲🇽🇱🇰

If, however, your favourite #FlagTypes are the flags of British Overseas Territories with a Union Jack in the canton, there’s a bit more choice and the winners are #Anguilla, #Bermuda, the #BritishIndianOceanTerritory (for now) and the #FalklandIslands 🇦🇮🇧🇲🇮🇴🇫🇰

If the flags of independent states with a Union Jack in the canton are your thing when it comes to #FlagTypes, your only options are #Australia, #Fiji, #NewZealand and #Tuvalu 🇦🇺🇫🇯🇳🇿🇹🇻

@sellingamirror.bsky.social This Year’s Love is this picture of a fella selling a mirror. It’s The One I Love. Something something Babylon something. Please Forgive Me.

#FlagTypes If you insist on multiple stars with your crescent moon, #Comoros, #Singapore, #Turkmenistan and #Uzbekistan have got what you crave 🇰🇲🇸🇬🇹🇲🇺🇿

In other news, today I had a conference call with splendid people from places as varied as the #CaymanIslands, #Ghana, #TrinidadandTobago and #Wales - and yes that’s a turtle, thanks for asking 🇰🇾🇬🇭🇹🇹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I love finding new ways to make a crescent moon and star, and the winners of the corresponding #FlagTypes category - #Algeria, #Libya, #Malaysia and #Pakistan - showcase four different approaches 🇩🇿🇱🇾🇲🇾🇵🇰

Most flags with both vertical and horizontal axes of symmetry are excellent, so congratulations to #Botswana, #Georgia, #Jamaica and #NorthMacedonia on winning an especially competitive #FlagTypes category 🇧🇼🇬🇪🇯🇲🇲🇰

Sure enough, charged equal horizontal tribands are the next #FlagTypes category, and the honours go to #Azerbaijan, #Croatia, #Myanmar and #Venezuela 🇦🇿🇭🇷🇲🇲🇻🇪

The winners in the charged vertical triband #FlagTypes category are #Barbados, #Mexico, #Moldova and #Mongolia, and there are bonus points available if you can spot the duck looking backwards 🇧🇧🇲🇽🇲🇩🇲🇳

Today’s #FlagTypes category is stars (or in many cases star, and in Lego usually circle/circles) and stripes, where the victors are #Cuba, #Liberia, #Togo and the #UnitedStates 🇨🇺🇱🇷🇹🇬🇺🇸

Some important non-Lego, non-flag news: I’ve discovered that my phone always gives me these three suggestions for “Wacky”, and I can’t stop laughing at the unknown series of events that leads it to think I probably want to say “Wacky wizards”, “Wacky wizard” or “Wacky Friday”

It’s Independence Day in #Botswana tomorrow, and today they’re having a bonus national holiday to celebrate winning the men’s 4x400m at the World Athletics Championships last week. Sounds like a grand couple of days - enjoy! 🇧🇼

I’m enjoying watching some cycling on TV from #Rwanda for a change 🇷🇼

As there are few entrants in the Nordic crosses #FlagTypes category, I’ve made an exception and allowed autonomous island territories to take part. Probably in part due to this novelty value, two of them - #Åland and the #FaroeIslands - join #Iceland and #Sweden as winners 🇦🇽🇫🇴🇮🇸🇸🇪

The diagonal stripes #FlagTypes category sees victory for #DRCongo, #Namibia, #StKittsandNevis and #Tanzania 🇨🇩🇳🇦🇰🇳🇹🇿

🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ Garr, me almost forgot to post ye rum old Jolly Roger from yonder 2020 for that there #InternationalTalkLikeAPirateDay. ‘Tis a shame ‘tis a bit shit. Me really should build a less scurvy version or make meself walk the plank 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

#FlagTypes The best depictions of the sun on flags are to be found on those of #AntiguaandBarbuda, #Japan, #NorthMacedonia and #Uruguay 🇦🇬🇯🇵🇲🇰🇺🇾

A friend of mine who’s in #Eswatini has sent me a picture of a flag he’s acquired (left), and frankly it’s indistinguishable from my Lego version (right) 🇸🇿

Africa and the Caribbean 🇳🇬🇯🇲

The winners in the latest #FlagTypes category, flags with writing on them, are #Brazil, #Brunei, the #DominicanRepublic and #Iraq. ORDEM E PROGRESSO! 🇧🇷🇧🇳🇩🇴🇮🇶

Because of REASONS, I’ve walked past my local Equatoguinean embassy every day so far this week, and if you think I’m telling you this purely as an excuse to use the word “Equatoguinean” and to post a flag of #EquatorialGuinea made badly out of Lego, you’re absolutely correct 🇬🇶

At the Legoland I made this grubby pyramid (and even grubbier sphinx), which wouldn’t look out of place in #Egypt 🇪🇬

Went to the Legoland today 🇬🇧

Side triangles are too hard to make out of Lego and should be banned. But until they are, the winners of this #FlagTypes category are #Comoros, #Guyana, #SãoToméandPríncipe and #Vanuatu 🇰🇲🇬🇾🇸🇹🇻🇺

I hadn’t appreciated how difficult two-colour flags would be as a #FlagTypes category. There are loads of beauties, but I’ve decided my favourites are #Greece, #Kazakhstan, #NorthMacedonia and #Ukraine 🇬🇷🇰🇿🇲🇰🇺🇦

It was tough narrowing it down to just four national flags with birds for the latest #FlagTypes, but I’ve settled on #Dominica, #Kiribati, #Uganda and #Zimbabwe 🇩🇲🇰🇮🇺🇬🇿🇼

I’m back home after an excellent trip to #France 🇫🇷

In other French flag news, today I took this picture not because of the statue of an uncharacteristically naked Harry Brook saying “Fetch that” after belting a six but because of the blue and yellow Toulon flag, which resembles a centred Sweden flag #NonLegoFlags

Today I went to a Franco-Italian military cemetery containing a pyramid, some flags and splendid views 🇫🇷🇮🇹

Uncharged equal horizontal tribands are a high-quality #FlagTypes category, but I reckon my favourites are #Armenia, #Estonia, #Gabon and #Lithuania 🇦🇲🇪🇪🇬🇦🇱🇹

For no good reason, I’ve decided to post occasional #FlagTypes featuring my favourite Lego flags of a certain type. In the uncharged vertical triband category, the winners are #Belgium, #Guinea, #Italy and #Mali 🇧🇪🇬🇳🇮🇹🇲🇱

It’s a busy summer and I haven’t posted any flags made badly out of Lego for a while, so here are some 🇧🇦🇨🇨🇩🇯🇵🇼

Ladies and gentlemen: Test cricket 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏏🇮🇳

I had a magnificent time watching #Oasis from the cheap seats last night 🇬🇧