Yeah 😅 apologies for the high word count, that's a fallout from being an academic English writer, where it's drilled into us to be as detailed as possible, especially for research papers lol
Gets to a point where even if I'm writing about my hobbies, I just switch into writer-mode and end up writing in the full academic style lmao
@Densha - Yeah it's interesting for me too, because although I don't have any kids, until recently I'd never really seen myself, or been in a position where I was an adult figure to younger kids, and so I'm still getting used to the whole idea (I'm only 23 so it makes me feel old lol)
Still, I like it, especially when the little ones come to you because to them, you're the 'magic train dude', and you get to share a lifelong hobby with the next generation, honestly, it's getting moments like that which make the hard work I do at the moment worth the trouble
Incidentally, if you think this is wordy, wait till you guys see the post I've got lined up for the General board about my current academic work, which is going to talk about the Railway Series, and hopefully get me a PhD lol 😂 Thought it might interest some here on BPT though, if you like the sound of hearing about a planned Thomas themed research paper
Gets to a point where even if I'm writing about my hobbies, I just switch into writer-mode and end up writing in the full academic style lmao
@Densha - Yeah it's interesting for me too, because although I don't have any kids, until recently I'd never really seen myself, or been in a position where I was an adult figure to younger kids, and so I'm still getting used to the whole idea (I'm only 23 so it makes me feel old lol)
Still, I like it, especially when the little ones come to you because to them, you're the 'magic train dude', and you get to share a lifelong hobby with the next generation, honestly, it's getting moments like that which make the hard work I do at the moment worth the trouble
Incidentally, if you think this is wordy, wait till you guys see the post I've got lined up for the General board about my current academic work, which is going to talk about the Railway Series, and hopefully get me a PhD lol 😂 Thought it might interest some here on BPT though, if you like the sound of hearing about a planned Thomas themed research paper
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