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My husband is an anorak

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PrettyCandles · 29/05/2006 22:01

I love him a lot but he really is an anorak - and he's bringing our ds up to be one too.

He's just explained to me, in great detail, the track layout he and ds built this afternoon with ds's wooden trainset. Apparently it's a Virgin Southern Somethingorother, with all the termini and various major cities along the way. He's a little bothered by the fact that the northern section (Birmingham to Glasgow? God only knows.) isn't to scale.

I think I'm going to have to read him a thread about Mooncups.

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PrincessBoris · 29/05/2006 22:02

Men are like that thought arnt they?

sallystrawberry · 29/05/2006 22:03

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Rhubarb · 29/05/2006 22:04

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PrincessBoris · 29/05/2006 22:05

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or him?

sallystrawberry · 29/05/2006 22:06

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PrettyCandles · 29/05/2006 22:11

Good lord no! My dh is fit! In every sense of the word.

It's just that I do have to listen quite a lot to stuff about where train lines go (he's not that intersted in the trains themselves, thank goodness for small mercies). Also to football and cricket commentaries.

Are women ever anoraks? Or do we have 'interests' and 'hobbies'?

I'm contemplating taking up spinning. Got a leaflet here.

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PrettyCandles · 29/05/2006 22:52

Ooh! I think I may flounce!

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Chepstow1 · 30/05/2006 18:53

Hi, blimmin heck this made me larf, and boy I need that this week, cheers ladies

anorak · 04/06/2006 23:09

Yes, women are sometimes anoraks.

Anoraks are nice people actually Smile

WigWamBam · 04/06/2006 23:13

My dh has turned my 5 year old dd into an anorak. She's not so fussed by the layout of the tracks but steam engines, steam trains, trams, vintage cars, trolley buses and cranes feature very highly in her list of must-see things.

At least neither of them like football ... thank goodness for small mercies Wink

Pruni · 04/06/2006 23:14

I've never met an anoraky woman - weird, isn't it? Men are bloody weird.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 04/06/2006 23:14

LOL at Duane Dibley Grin

Love Red Dwarf. I guess that kinda makes me an anorak lol!

scoobytwo · 05/06/2006 10:01

i had to laugh at this thread as it rung a bell lol
my dh is so into trains,planes&rc cars lol i even find myself going to air shows ect with him&get a full explanation on each plane,he has started a collection of trains for when ds is 5 which is when he is going to build his model railway in the loft for ds(so he says lol)he is even collecting little veichles,buildings ect as hel say oh thats the scale of the model railway im having bless them eh

indignatio · 05/06/2006 10:08

I call my dh a geek - am relatively happy to admit that I am probably a geek too. This means that ds and bean are liable to end up as geeks. Back to Philip Larkin I suppose

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