Your Day (apart from gardening) - what took place?

Cheeky is beautiful. How old is he/she? I would think he/she is old enough to know if he/she is a he or she.

I did above. What do you think?

 

Without getting down and dirty there is no way I could tell (the last thing you want to do with a strange cat is grope). He/she is going to the vet on Thursday so I will have a definitive answer then.
The guitars are beautiful. I would have the Burns Apache in a heartbeat. The website is amazing. I had to delete my browsing history after looking at it in case my wife checked up. Looking at girls is okay but guitars, no. Not now she has my collection down from about 15 to just 3.

 

I was thinking/remembering in the night. We brought two boys (and one girl) with us to Portugal from the UK. I believe in the UK they remove the boy's jewels. We had our boy Van (and two previous boys, Calvos and Rasputin done here) and they kept their jewels as they do something internally instead.

Do you have a particular one you like? T'other Half brought a 1961 Les Paul Junior Double Cutaway from the States when we left there (1977) and has what is believed to be a Martin which belonged to his grandfather among his personal collection.

 

The three I kept are my favourites. I have a Larrvée parlour guitar, the same as on the ISS, a Fender Stratocaster my wife bought as a retirement/65th birthday present and a 27-year-old Squier Strat I bought new, set up beautifully and is ageing delightfully.

 

They are in excellent condition, thank you for showing them. Do you play them? T'other Half does not really play ... has more knowledge than talent to which he agrees! He is not familiar with the Larrvée parlour guitar.

 

I don't play now. Haven't since the start of the pandemic. My brother and I used to jam every couple of weeks but Covid put a stop to that. Now we live too far apart to do so.
I too have more knowledge than talent.

 

@Jocko , only three guitars !! , that’s cruelty!

 

I know, especially when you consider the collection I did have, including three I built myself, two basses, a 12 string guitar, and a classical guitar. I even had a 1985 Gordon Smith. Gave them all away.
Got my grandson into building guitars and we built his first one together.

Both my grandsons and my step-grandson are amazing guitarists and I pride myself in that I got all three of them started by putting a guitar in their hands.

 

Gordon Smith guitars ! , my mate had a les Paul junior double cutaway GS with a P90 on it ,
beautiful guitar and a lovely tone.
Your / your grandsons hand built guitar pictured looks amazing , stunning finish.
A cross between a mustang and a tele !
That’s great that you started another generation of guitarists on their way .

 

This was mine. No p90 though.



I never got around to building a P90 equipped guitar. I was more into different woods.

 

T'other Half's has a P90 on it. Here he is with it in 1977 (it is packed away now) ...

 

Me in February 78.

 

I love these old photos, good memories. And shocking memories like that room the guys are in was our den and we had blue and white floral carpet to match the walls ... those were the days (Mary Hopkin 1968, the year we married).

 

It's been 4 weeks since i had my second cataract surgery and this morning went for the 4 week checkup at the opticians, everything is fine and the floaters are nothing to worry about.
Have to have prescription reading glasses because my left eye is worse but I new that. Having had glasses since I was 15.
I'm going to have my old frames for the new lenses.

 

That's all good news then @Logan.