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    My name is Don and I live in Somerset in the UK. I have been a pen collector for most of my life and am now 86years old. I still have my school pen but really started collecting with the purchase of Sheaffer snorkel pen when I was 21 bought from a local stationer which, sadly, closed recently. I now have a collection of 93 fountain pens with my latest aquisition being a Diplomat excellence pen.
    As, due to health problems, I am mostly confined to my house an on-line forum keeps my interest alive. I have been a member, now lapsed, of the Writing Equipment Society, which though, is a good organisation if one is able to attend meetings etc which, sadly I no longer am able to.
    Best wishes to all other members of the forum.
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    Hello Don and welcome to FPGeeks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chrissy View Post
    Hello Don and welcome to FPGeeks.
    Thank you chrissy.

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    Receive a warm welcome from sunny Puerto Rico!

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    Welcome

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    Welcome! Sounds like an impressive collection you have there.

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    Welcome, Don! That's what I love about the internet: it can connect like minded people across the world.
    "Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine

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    Welcome, Don, from a fellow Westcountryman - a Janner to be precise - though I do live on the other side of the planet these days. Really miss the moors!

    Have fun.

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    It certainly is not sunny here just now.

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    Although I live in the West country I am actually from the North East of England so the North Yorkshire Moors were my childhood memories.

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    Yes it is does have the effect of making one realise that perhaps our hobby is not so strange after all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by donpack View Post
    Although I live in the West country I am actually from the North East of England so the North Yorkshire Moors were my childhood memories.
    That's quite alright, an honorary Westcountryman then! My mother is from Yorkshire, so I can claim the honour going the other way.

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    I should perhaps have stated that I have lived in the West Country since I was 16 so after 70 years I think I may call myself a West Country man although the North has good memories. My mother was from Lancashire and father from Sussex so I am a bit of a mixture. Don

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    Hi Don

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    Hi Wahl!

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    Glad you are among us!

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