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    Cool Hello from sunny Weston-super-Mare

    Hi!

    I've been lurking intermittently for a while and have seen a lot of usernames I recognise from the other place. I was fairly active over there, until a few years back, but then kind of dropped off the edge of the planet as far as the hobby is concerned; I'm still a very determined user of fountain pens, though, and don't actually own any ballpoints - life is too short for writer's cramp.

    Over the years I've amassed a smallish collection - about 70 assorted pens and half that number of inks. Many of them are very rarely used these days - I think my tastes have evolved, as these things do, and some of the early acquisitions no longer suit me as they once may have done. One day when life slows down a bit, I may consider rationalising the collection.

    Today's pens are: Parker '51' Flighter (fine, Sailor Kiwaguro); Parker '51' Aerometric in Navy (medium, Sailor Souboku); and a cherry pearl Esterbrook J (9668 firm medium, Iroshizuku Momiji). Mostly being used to write in my new Leuchtturm Bullet Journal today, but often exercised to draw diagrams when I visit the office.

    On the personal front, I live with my partner of nearly 30 years and our mob of six dogs and about a dozen cats. We're about 300 yards from the Bristol Channel, and have lived here for about a quarter of a century. I've been working in IT since shortly after I met my other half, mostly in weird niche systems and strange and largely obsolete languages and environments. Currently I'm doing rights and royalties back office systems for a large media company, working mostly from home. Things have slowed down a bit over the last 18 months, following a very unexpected heart attack which happened the night before my 51st birthday. Five stents later, I'm still in the land of the living and still learning to cope with the "new normal"...

    Aside from fountain pens, inks and (apparently) dogs and cats, I also collect vintage sunglasses, mostly mint or near-mint Oakleys from around the turn of the millennium plus a few pairs of even older Ray-Bans. Currently about 60 pairs of sunnies... Stuff newer than the Luxottica takeover of those two companies need not apply!

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    Default Re: Hello from sunny Weston-super-Mare

    Hello and welcome to FPGeeks.
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    Welcome and keep writing in Good Health

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    Receive a warm welcome from - also sunny - Puerto Rico!

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    Welcome from the sunny Texas plains!
    "Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine

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    Default Re: Hello from sunny Weston-super-Mare

    Quote Originally Posted by PaulT00 View Post
    Hi!
    As for stents, join the crowd. It just keeps on tickin'! ;-)
    By any chance, were you able to steal a souvenir pen from Dismaland? Probably wouldn't write, anyway.

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    Welcome to the board, Paul.
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    Default Re: Hello from sunny Weston-super-Mare

    Welcome to geekdom, Paul. You'll be pleased to know that despite the name of the forum, pocket protectors are optional here.

    I had a heart attack at the age of 48, and am still still kicking. I turn 73 later this year.
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    Default Re: Hello from sunny Weston-super-Mare

    Hi Paul,

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    Default Re: Hello from sunny Weston-super-Mare

    Welcome. You will be looking forward to the Bristol pen show first weekend in February I suspect!

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    Quote Originally Posted by da vinci View Post
    Welcome. You will be looking forward to the Bristol pen show first weekend in February I suspect!
    Actually, I probably won't be able to get there! Far too much going on on the domestic front at the moment...

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    Quote Originally Posted by FredRydr View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by PaulT00 View Post
    Hi!
    As for stents, join the crowd. It just keeps on tickin'! ;-)
    By any chance, were you able to steal a souvenir pen from Dismaland? Probably wouldn't write, anyway.
    You could be right about the not writing... people always seem amazed that I kept well clear of the Dismaland event, which took place on the sea front about 10 minutes' walk from where I live. But there is a backstory - which is that when I was growing up, the venue involved (the "Tropicana" building) was a frequent day-trip in the summer back in the days when it was a functioning open-air swimming pool. Then it was "ruined" by being "developed", then it was closed, and the building has been allowed to fall apart ever since. I didn't need to go there and have my happy memories from childhood polluted by what it had become, which was actually an ideal setting for the "Dismal" bit of Dismaland...

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    Hello and welcome. Went to a gathering of people from an MSN chat room about 15 or so years ago in Weston-Super-Mare! It was all good fun. Can't recall much though about it. The previous year, the gathering was in Blackpool.

    I know of a way to use up ink!!

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    Welcome!
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    from Lafayette, Louisiana, the heart of Cajun Country.
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