The Man Cave Continuum

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More man cave data.

We took the three-year-old to the Neepsend Model Railway Society's annual exhibition today, in a community centre to the North of Sheffield. It was fab, but there's probably a dissertation to be written on the choices of subject for railway modelling - unexpectedly (to me), almost all of the layouts were set in the diesel and electric eras, with a centre of gravity around the seventies and eighties which I guess reflects the peak years for childhood nostalgia for middle-aged men? There was also a preference for urban settings and quarries and steelworks, where I was kind of expecting more things to lean bucolic, which feels like another insight into the psyche of That Sort Of Middle Aged Man.

 

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Definitely. I don't know if model railways are still a thing for young lads? My mate from school had a big table, took up an entire room of his not very big semi house. I remember taking the piss out of him when he dragged me to the model railway shop opposite our school to buy a bag a gravel.

I was in sheff yest as it happens, went to a couple of exhibitions and there was a hipster fair on Devonshire Green. We were eating outdoors on the terrace at an Italian restaurant at 6pm, felt like another country with the sun.

I picked up a copy of "the light" from a group of people huddled in a bus stop, outside town hall, which they had sort of taken over a bit, but not in any threatening way. It was like 70s hippy looking people, just milling about as though they were talking about permaculture.

 

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