Christmas really brings out the creative best in people, and while that’s usually reserved for outdoor decor that looks like a light shop vomited all over their house, sometimes the creativity sparks in other ways. Great, alcohol-based ways.
Like making a gin train.
UK writer and self-confessed “model village and railway enthusiast”, Tim Dunn, has really done a number on our Christmas brains. He is maybe the Christmas Genius. In fact I’m calling it – he bloody well is.
He turned his train set into a gin delivery service. LOOK AT IT.
I have laid 40ft of train track between sofa and kitchen. A good service is now operating: this train carrying two gin & tonics has just arrived. pic.twitter.com/VZJGKvifiV
— Tim Dunn (@MrTimDunn) December 17, 2017
Someone give this man a MEDAL. Just shower him in awards. Also, send him to my house to set up a similar situation in my kitchen, thanks.
It’s a G Scale* railway – LGB 45mm gauge track, converted Playmobil diesel loco and wagons, @Gaugemaster shuttle unit from @HattonsModels. (*G usually stands for “Garden”. From now on it stands for “Gin”). Every home should have one. pic.twitter.com/UZADiRJn1j
— Tim Dunn (@MrTimDunn) December 17, 2017
Tim is doing the Lord’s Work and encouraging the rest of us to create a similar model at our own fam Chrimbo’s.
If you’re heading back to family homes or having time off at Xmas, go on, dig out your old train set and see if you can make do something useful. Or at least, serve cheap vodka shots on it. pic.twitter.com/9XSA2kdZkP
— Tim Dunn (@MrTimDunn) December 17, 2017
Although people are very much aware that their personal, childhood collections of train shit aren’t on par with this delightful train nerd’s.
https://twitter.com/jenn_ifer_jenn/status/942516217885155328
Side note – Drink Train also works with wine, if G & T’s aren’t your thing.
(My mum recalls times when she and her brother, when children, would put Joey their budgie in her brother’s @hornby Dublo trainset at Xmas. He never wanted to get out. We still run the set around the table every year) pic.twitter.com/OYsTftkW7s
— Tim Dunn (@MrTimDunn) December 17, 2017
On that note though, do not put your pet budgie in a toy train. I feel Joey did not enjoy his train rides as much as Tim thinks he did…
