The Little World

Except if you dined at an Ethiopian restaurant the night before and feel you might need to seek a toilet.

No matter how fast you are, you will never be fast enough. And there is no point in getting up and thinking you’re done. You might as well settle in for the day.

In the scale hobby lines, however, you can ring the changes as often as you wish and more or less do what you wish. There are small exceptions – people wanting to fly radio-controlled airplanes will find the world set against them. The local councils, neighbours, police, and scale model R/C flying clubs’ old boys will all insist on stopping the would-be pilot from using anything, anywhere, any time.

There are rules, you see, and rules are enforced by people who like to exercise authority. They may not be able to run their own businesses or families but they can stop you from flying a foam plastic airplane.

The model boat sailors have a similar problem as they need to use public water to have private fun. This can be denied them by drought or bureaucrat. Both are dry plagues.

But all the rest of us – from the train layouts to the plastic model builders to the doll housers to the wargamers are free to be happy with no official interference. This is probably a matter of frustration to someone, but as yet they have not figured out a way of forbidding it.

The closest that officialdom can do is charge money for exhibition space and then watch to see if anyone parks their car in the wrong spot.