Explaining to your wife/girlfriend/boyfriend/husband/dog...

When I was dating & before I got married to her she actually took an interest in my hobby. Even though I was working on British Rail at the time. I used to think she was crazy & couldn't understand why she quite liked looking at trains. I remember where I was at Nottingham control, I ended up having to work a rest day Saturday & I was actually booked to go on a railtour from Nottingham which went around Yorkshire as there was a section of track it covered near Healey Mills yard which I'd never done. In the finish I gave her the ticket & she went with the kids & a friend of mine with his wife on the train. Never did do that bit of track & that was in 1996. Although the strangest looks I got was after we were married we went to Cleethorpes on a summer Saturday. I diverted the car to go round Immingham TMD. AT this time I was the loco controller for EWS covering the East Midlands, Yorkshire & Humberside region, so getting round wasn't a problem. Although I got some funny looks from mrmbers of staff. There I was taking photos of the locos on the shed & she was walking with me in a pair of tight jeans, stiletto shoes & a tee-shirt. It probably did look odd to those 'normal' people although I will admit she never complained once. Although now divorced & no it wasn't to do with trains that the marriage ended, as it's only me & my 2 cats they don't seem to be bothered about me being on the PC all day everyday writing SimSig timetables. But you can't tell a cat not to jump up on the coffee table & lay either on the WTT your are working from or on the keyboard when you are either writing a timetable or playing a sim.

I'll have to check your TTs Pascal and check that your cats have recognition for "their typing and help" in your timetable writing lol

I am Signaller in real life so my partner knows what Simsig is, what she doesn't understand is why. My dog is just happy I sit still for a while.