This is the Time of Year when a Boy Thinks about Trains

[Teasing the Korean]

39 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Oh wow. Is this yours?

Yup!

I'll post more pix later. I like night shots the best.

[Rabshakeh]

37 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Yup!

I'll post more pix later. I like night shots the best.

Do you have a summer set too?

[Teasing the Korean]

21 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Do you have a summer set too?

No, I set up the trains only around Christmas.  That is the reason that this is the time of year when a boy thinks about trains.

[Rabshakeh]

A very good family friend is a South African architect and interior designer. He once helped to build a modernist house on a cliff overlooking Cape Town for an older man from Yorkshire who had made his money and was retiring.

The house was modernist in style, in the shape of an L, reversed and on its side. The living quarters were on the right, on two floors, the garage was exposed on the ground on the left. Above that of the left was a lateral room, overlooking the beach and the sea: one of the finest views in Cape Town. This was the only room that was left undecorated on the plans and without specific purpose. When our friend asked what the room would be used for, he received only evasive responses, so the friend, who as a man of the world understood exactly what the room would no doubt be for, tactfully let the subject drop.

Two years after the house was finished, he was called in to deal with some snagging issues, and took the opportunity to go up and see what had been done with the room. It turned out it was not a bondage dungeon, as he had naturally assumed, but was instead given over entirely to the Yorkshireman's model train set. 

[JSngry]

Snagging? Please advise, thanks!

[Rabshakeh]

Just now, JSngry said:

Snagging? Please advise, thanks!

As in, fixing issues identified later on. Used in the construction context.

The Internet tells me that this is British English 

[JSngry]

Hey, a day where you don't learn something is a day not worth getting up for!

[Rabshakeh]

Just now, JSngry said:

Hey, a day where you don't learn something is a day not worth getting up for!

I've only just learned that it is only British English. (Presumably South African too.)

[JSngry]

English is many languages!