Congrats Ceri, the last guitar build was a real education, you taught us well sir.
Looking foward to the promised photos.

Cheers,
John.E

The best of the best. Congrats Ceri my friend.

CC

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way to go ceri you are the best

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Here is at you Mr. C.....wow you turned 8000!!! YOU CHOOSE!!!!



OR Mr. Bonds favorite:



It is on me!!!!!

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Yikes, I'm gone for a few months - and Ceri has gone and done it.

Congrats.

Gil

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Congrats Captain Ceri from sunny Corralejo

Congrats my friend. 8,000 posts from you is a LOT of QUALITY . Here's to the next 8,000. Keep 'em coming!

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Congradulations Ceri!!!

I always enjoy your contribution to these forums, keep em comin bro

Again, thank you all kindly!

And to Jeff: by amazing coincidence I got my very first taste of Hendricks Gin today, catching sight of it in a shop whilst purchasing a truckload of beer (that's all actually true). Hendricks: no guitarist should drink anything else, right?


All right then. For the last couple of days it's been raining cats and dogs where I am - I know cos I just stepped in a poodle. [Waits while deafening laughter calms down.]

However, I've braved the downpour for the following. This is a story flatly contradicted by Wikipedia - which almost certainly make mine the right version.

In his very early days of writing Sherlock Holmes stories Arthur Conan Doyle came to the South West of England to the county of Devon - where I also just happen to have a small place where I spend half my time. Conan Doyle visited a tiny village called Landscove about three miles from where I live and put up in the parsonage. This is all on the very southern edge of the wilds of Dartmoor, and whilst here he was shown around the moors in a pony and trap by a local gent by the name of... John Baskerville.

Conan Doyle saw various locations on the moors which he shortly was to write into his new Holmes story - and he also borrowed the name of his guide for the title of the book; The Hound of the Baskervilles.

This was all told me just a few weeks ago by the current vicar of Landscove, who had researched all the details in pretty convincing depth. And whadayaknow: in the little graveyard of Landscove church is the family tomb of that same John Baskerville who gave his name to the story, which I have been and photographed in the rain for you today:



Here's the closeup:



Very sadly, it is not reported that John Baskerville died in 1890 by having his throat torn out by a giant luminous hound. Shame, huh?

Now to the important bit:

Don't be depressed, man. Here: this is how we mark these things on the Forum:





BTW: if it ain't weird enough some fella you've never met who doesn't even know your real name wishing you happy birthday over the internet - howsabout sharing a glass of bubbly in e-space? Kinda odd, this cyberworld, ain't it?

Oh well. Anything for a strange life...

Cheers all - C

EDIT: spooling mistoks

Very cool Mr. C.! I was wondering when you were going to pop in! And you mentioned in your very interesting narrative about the county of Devon - where you also just happen to have a small place and the place of Dartmoor. I do not expect you to know this (or at least admit to it!), but were those not the places where the story took place in Pride and Prejudice? (OK OK< I saw the movie, when when youngest daughter watched it.....so I only saw it...ummm...ok.....30 or 35 times....) But then I might be mistaken.... (I just checked with my Daughter and she said I am mistaken! It was Derbyshire and Hertfordshire.)

Oh, I was told that Steven Spielberg is currently shooting a film on Dartmoor....and is there right now...wonder if that is true?

So when's your next project????

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Hi Jeff: well, Pride and Prejudice mainly takes place in the counties of Hertfordshire and Derbyshire, which are in the middle of England. But you may be thinking of another Jane Austen novel, Persuasion, which is set in Lyme Regis, down here in the South West.

Lot of other books are set here abouts too. Just for example, Agatha Christie and Daphne Du Maurier both lived nearby and set various stories in these parts.

Just to let folks know what we're on about, here's a pic of Dartmoor I took the other day on one of the many long walks I take across the place:


And here's a spot where I like to watch the sunset whilst listening to the Floyd on my iPod:


And just for completeness, this is the spot that Conan Doyle renamed the Grimpen Mires in The Hound of the Baskervilles (it's not called that in real life). Very marshy, and it gets a bit spooky up here when the mists roll in...:


Anyone else feel like joining in "show and tell" on your neighborhood...?

Cheers - C

PS New project on the horizon; since you ask. Gotta let other folks finish theirs first though...

BTW: if it ain't weird enough some fella you've never met who doesn't even know your real name wishing you happy birthday over the internet - howsabout sharing a glass of bubbly in e-space? Kinda odd, this cyberworld, ain't it?


A little bit, but I like it. How else could I see and learn all this cool stuff, and get a refreshing glass of champagne for my b-day. Thanks. I'm all cheered up now. Probably half tight. I'd gladly share my name, but I'm afraid one of these hard cases would show up and give me a woopin. I'm Glenn. How do you do? I don't have any friends to leak the rest of it like you do. Ha.

It takes a lot of something to sit on a rock out there with Pink Floyd in your ears, unable to hear the panting behind you! Thanks for showing us all the things you do. I've only read about most of it, and I love seeing it.

Cheers:

Glenn

Great show Ceri- good for you for turning out good & well respected posts. Many have learnt from you

I have the next week off work so perhaps I may go around my neck of the woods with a camera too. I am also off to Australia for a holiday so I will endeavour to provide all with computer desk travel. Its just turned spring here and its raining like you just wouldnt believe. There has just been enough in today to let the sun shine through the clouds- otherwise it has been raining dreadfully for the last 2 weeks almost non-stop, and being a typical NZ winter- it is very cold.

Your scenery shots with the rolling hills and the stony hillside look very much alike the centre of the North Island in NZ by the way. I think both England and New Zealand have a similar environment- except we have no ozone layer during our summer

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cool story and photos, thank you Ceri.

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You just can't keep a good man down Very cool pic's and stories Ceri! I also use my iPod when out in the woods with the dog, there is something very cool about listening to sounds when so close to nature.