Grandmother Laurette met Leo during a chess tournament while they were still at school. Laurette is a very logical thinker and was always the only person who could beat Leo in a chess match. Laurette became an architect and it was seeing all the models and plans in her study at home that inspired her son Alonzo to become a builder. Laurette still designs buildings, but now small Dolls Houses for her grandchildren, which are then built by the very talented Cuthbert Porridge.