What a joy an understanding wife is.

[cypherman]

Hi all,

Yesterday was as we all know Valentine's Day. I do not know what anyone else's wife/husband or partner bought them. But my wife bought me this for Valentine's Day. A Mainline Rebuilt Patriot class 45536 Private Wood VC. It is boxed and except for the rear coupling missing its hook in mint condition. It runs as smooth as silk.

[The Johnster]

Very nice.  I also have the benefit of an understanding and supportive Squeeze, as evidenced by the following sequence last November.  We have in Cardiff an antiques/bric a brac market shop in one of the arcades, with a 2h toy dealer, Adrian, upstairs.  He's worth checking in on occasionally to see if he has anything worth buying; anyway, this particular day I was walking past and saw his part of the display window full of locos at £40 a pop.  Included was a Hornby Dapol type J94 in excellent condition, and it occurred to me that an NCB livery repaint would provide me with a useful loco to haul coal wagons between my exchange siding and the imaginary, offstage, colliery.

 

At this point I will mention that the layout lives in our 'bedroom', as she persists in calling the Railway Room, and I am concious of the fact that this does not sit in the most natural way possible with a feminine view of what a bedroom should look like.  Anyway, brought the loco home, showed her, told her what it was for, and her response was 'what colliery'.  'The one the trains go to from this place', I told her, 'it's imaginary, like Bridgend is in the fiddle yard'.  'So, why don't you build a colliery', she asked.  'Because, o beloved of my heart, it would have to go by here, where the fiddle yard is, and then where would the fiddle yard go?'.  'It would go further along the wall', she said, 'by here',  'Yes, but it would be in your way when you need to get to the wardrobe and your dressing table, love'.

 

'HOW fat do you think I am!  I can manage easily it if doesn't stick out further than it already does.  Move the fiddle yard and build a colliery!'.  So, always eager to please...

 

This one's a keeper.

[Paul H Vigor]

1 hour ago, cypherman said:

Hi all,

Yesterday was as we all know Valentine's Day. I do not know what anyone else's wife/husband or partner bought them. But my wife bought me this for Valentine's Day. A Mainline Rebuilt Patriot class 45536 Private Wood VC. It is boxed and except for the rear coupling missing its hook in mint condition. It runs as smooth as silk.

And don't forget, today is Valentine's Boxing Day! Like the trains, let's keep the love a-rolling! 

[Bucoops]

Thankfully my wife and I don't "do" valentines day - our thoughts on it are we love each other more than one day a year

 

Having said that, that's a smashing gift

[john new]

Agree a good one makes you so lucky (mine is). I am currently in the process of adapting what was the dining room when we bought the house from the office/library space we had already made it to an office/library/crafting & layout area.

 

For photo see my layout thread.

 

Edited April 19, 2022 by john new
Link added back for thr eeinsted image.

[davefromacrossthepond]

Next month my wife is taking me to a show (exhibition) - the first we've been to in two years! She always is more than happy to keep her eye out if there is something in particular that I am looking for and more than once she's the one who spotted it and convinced me to go ahead and get it. She's the best!! I always tell her I have proof I'm smarter than her; look who I married and look who she's stuck with. 

[westerner]

I too am very lucky, My first christmas present from her after marrying was a Hornby train set this was 51 years ago from Pages in Barking side. She has always supported my interest in the hobby. Thank goodness she likes model railways to look  used. She does not like layouts that are clean and unweathered, which is good as one my pleasures in the hobby is weathereing.

[F-UnitMad]

Hmmm..... my SWMBO is best described as "tolerating" more than "understanding". But for our wedding anniversary last year she did buy me a day out at the Severn Valley Railway.

Mindyou, one of the exhibits at the Engine Shed at Highley caught her in more familiar "tolerating, but only just" stance....    

 

 

[Dava]

Mrs Dava collects Britains 1/32 farm models and is planning a toy farm…seeking a farmhouse style dolls house. 
Sadly no interest in an Estate railway! I have loaned a Landrover & bought a roll of grass mat.

 

Dava

[Western Star]

Jordan, @F-UnitMad, are you still breathing? does your head hurt?

 

regards, Graham

[F-UnitMad]

9 minutes ago, Western Star said:

Jordan, @F-UnitMad, are you still breathing? does your head hurt?

 

regards, Graham

Yes and Not Yet.

Depends if I'm ratted on by a fellow RMweb member's mum - who is also a good friend of mine & SWMBO, & who likes trains too, but has refused to receive parcels for me!!!   

Edited February 15, 2022 by F-UnitMad

[westernviscount]

8 minutes ago, Dava said:

Mrs Dava collects Britains 1/32 farm models and is planning a toy farm…seeking a farmhouse style dolls house. 
Sadly no interest in an Estate railway! I have loaned a Landrover & bought a roll of grass mat.

 

Dava

Slightly (majorly) off topic but I used to love Britains "toys" as a kid. The detail was superb!

 

As for understanding S.O. and family, mine are very much so and my daughter got involved building a Dapol cottage this evening in place of xbox time! It is for a diorama for her collectible teddy bear ornaments after all! I think she felt quite grown up using Dad's tools! She is thankfully too young to be able to feign interest in my hobby..I think!! 

[SM42]

Mrs SM42 and I had our first date at an exhibition and she allows me to buy trains as long as I build a layout 

 

Still not got the layout. She was looking for bigger houses to make space for one, but we are extending now to make room.

 

She's a definite keeper.

 

I believe I have, as they say  fallen on my feet and I am eternally grateful for the good fortune to find such an understanding partner. 

 

I know others are not so fortunate 

 

Andy

 

 

[BR60103]

A few years ago we were at a show and she spotted a Flying Scotsman on friend Steve's stand. "Do you have one of these?"  "No."  "Why don't you get it?"

 

Long time back I bought her a Polar Express set (Lionel O; they'd just come out) as she was a fan of the book and movie.  A bit later a train shop was moving and clearing out and she bought their demo G gauge train set.  That seems to be what she wanted all along.

 

Now I have an OO layout in the basement and she has O and G (and On30 -- don't ask).

 

[SRman]

We don't tend to 'do' Valentines Day. My wife is not very romantic, so flowers or chocolates or jewellery are lost on her. However, she is very understanding and encouraging about my hobbies. I collect and model buses as well as railways, and she often wants to buy me something (frequently not really appropriate for my modelling needs or wants  ). For my birthday (not long before Valentines Day), she bought me some model buses of my own choosing. They arrived here, coincidentally, on the 14th.

[Allegheny1600]

My good lady says that I was interested in my hobby before she came along so she supports it in that regard.

When I was building the layout in my link, it started off as “your layout”, once she’d had input with weathering buildings, presentation and so forth, it became “our layout” and possibly that ensued that I could bring it with us.

Now we’re here in Greece, once our new house is built - she INSISTS that I have a big railway room.

That’s pretty good I think!

Like others here, we don’t “do” these artificial, commercialised days to “prove” we love each other because we demonstrate it every day.

[The Johnster]

My squeeze is Polish, and none the worse for that, and this might explain some of the supporting attitude.   When she was a child growing up in Poland in Communist days (which she says gave her an excellent childhood with plenty of everything, very unlike the story we were fed on our side of the curtain but she acknowledges that there were shortages and queues for everything in Russia), Piko train sets were owned by hers and every family she knew, and girls played with them at least as much as if not more than boys; there was none of our 'boys toys' culture.  She occasionally drives trains on Cwmdimbath, and has a good feel for smoothness and scale speed.  She is beginning to understand the signalling and we are approaching a situation where she can be told to 'drive lokomotiva 5633 and obey the signals'.

 

, but interesting and not the first thing you would think, Polish teenagers in her day played rugby, mostly informal park games and there was no league or organised structure, and usually mixed sex (it was an excuse for groping and fumbling).  She knows more about the game than me, a lifelong Wales supporter.

Edited February 16, 2022 by The Johnster

[Bucoops]

3 hours ago, Allegheny1600 said:

My good lady says that I was interested in my hobby before she came along so she supports it in that regard.

 

 

Hmm, I was interested in women before we met - don't think that would wash though

[ERIC ALLTORQUE]

I failed to find one called Joy.......

All this about wifes been keepers,is this a football interest or do they work in local zoo,s and animal sanctuarys.Nice that it works for some,the give and take thing, i found if i gave she took.Fill your boots i feel the love.

[Joseph_Pestell]

I do envy you guys with supportive partners. Mine did come to Railwells once but disappeared to the cafe after about 20 minutes.

 

Should have abandoned then rather than wait for total catastrophe, 

[Ray H]

19 hours ago, westerner said:

. . . . .  this was 51 years ago from Pages in Barking side . . . . .

 

And I may have served you.