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« Reply #15 on: January 28, 2017, 10:52:15 »
Happy 10th Birthday GWPF Cheesy
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« Reply #16 on: January 28, 2017, 10:53:39 »
Just think - we have the stroppy teenage years to come....  Grin
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« Reply #17 on: January 28, 2017, 13:09:27 »
10 year olds can be quite stroppy too. My nephew is a case in point.
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« Reply #18 on: January 28, 2017, 13:39:56 »
Quote from: bignosemac on January 28, 2017, 13:09:27
10 year olds can be quite stroppy too. My nephew is a case in point.

I wonder where he gets it from ? Grin.
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« Reply #19 on: January 29, 2017, 09:40:26 »
Great to meet old friends and new at the Sir Daniel Gooch in Swindon yesterday early evening - for their information, I caught the 19:36 Westbury train with just a couple of minutes to spare - such was the good company that I really wanted to stay on until the 21:06, but I had a curfew of 21:00 to be home (to be available to let hotel guests in after that time if they locked themselves out!)

I'll leave it to individuals to identify themselves.
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« Reply #20 on: January 29, 2017, 13:10:27 »
And my picture including the chap who started it all.
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« Reply #21 on: January 29, 2017, 13:12:17 »
What is it about beer drinkers, railway enthusiasts and beards....  Grin
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« Reply #22 on: January 29, 2017, 14:05:51 »
Ollie and I bucking the trend.
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« Reply #23 on: January 29, 2017, 14:07:37 »
Ollie is too youthful and you are just indecisive when it comes to facial adornments.  Grin
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« Reply #24 on: January 29, 2017, 15:22:31 »
Quote from: bignosemac on January 29, 2017, 13:10:27
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 ...

Quote from: bobm on January 29, 2017, 13:12:17
What is it about beer drinkers, railway enthusiasts and beards....  Grin

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.
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