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@Ludd
My beloved Pogliaghi - alas with a crack in the down tube, which I suppose I might one day get replaced, but for the time being it is hanging on the wall at home.
I bought it in about 2003 or 2004 but had known it for some years before then. It had belonged to Bernard, the cheery bloke from Longford who used to deliver sandwiches to my workplace on the Haymarket in the early 1990s. He sold it to a colleague of mine, who a bit later offered to sell it to me after my Harry Quinn was totalled by a dooring incident in February 1995, but I found the riding position a bit scary, and I ended up riding (dare I admit it?) a Marin Sausalito for a few years. I did borrow it for the London triathlon (thereby hangs another sad tale) and ended up buying it.
I tidied it up and modernised the groupset a bit and rode it from Paris to London in 2006, which marked a renaissance in my cycling, and on some of the early FNRttCs. It was after a FNRttC to Whistable in 2012 that I spied the crack in the paint just behind the head tube lug. A bit of scraping revealed that the down tube had a crack about half way round it, at which stage retirement beckoned. Most of the kit was transferred over to other bikes, first up a nice Concorde which turned out to be a little too little, and then to my current Dave Lloyd Concept 90, to which I still have no sentimental attachment.