And my picture including the chap who started it all.
And thanks to Lee too ... last head of this morning having landed on a ferry from France at Portsmouth on a rail replacement bus up to Southampton ...
What is it about beer drinkers, railway enthusiasts and beards....

Dunno ... that was a good pint, though. Let me join in with the significant (also merry) crowd on the way back down from Chippenham to Melksham - they had been to the match against Bristol Rovers where the lost; a cheerful admission that their team had not performed well, and an almost embarrassing thankfulness that they can now get home by train on Saturdays.
From our group in Swindon, I was humbled to learn so much of members I've not met before, or only sat down with very briefly - and I'm thankful that although I have life issues going on at the moment, in many ways I'm having (thus far) an easy path through life's cycles, even though some of the current cycles are the steeper and mrs significant.