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  1. oldreddog

    Condor to Keep on Keeping on

    I recently contacted JTI with regard to whether Condor Plug would contuine to be produced when Gallagher's closes it doors. I received a reply yesterday saying that Condor will continue to made and sold. While I still feel sadness for the workers at least this is a little good news for pipe...
  2. oldreddog

    Erinnomore

    With regret we note the passing of Erinmore Plug,late of Murrays and STG. A robust fellow who shall no more be seen on the streets of Dublin. Much given to fruity outbursts and dense observances. Sibling of the late Mick Mcquaid and the Warrior. Survived by Yachtsman and ailing relatives...
  3. oldreddog

    Happy Birthday Kirk

    100 hundred today and defying 2016.
  4. oldreddog

    The General Takes the Horse Home

    http://pipesmagazine.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/album/11719/20161205_142852-600x337.jpg I am just about to fire this up. I don't know if I am the first in Ireland to smoke the new Warhorse Bar and I don't care either! Happy Monday to me.
  5. oldreddog

    Giving The Bird On Friday

    Just because it's Friday I will send a few bowls worth of Condor to the first five members who pm me their addresses. I'd prefer to send it to those who have not yet soared with the mighty bird.
  6. oldreddog

    Condor Plug and a Small Victory

    Last night I finally managed to slice, fold and stuff a bowl,without having to relight dozens of times. Any other time I attempted to smoke Condor Plug this way it was...light...puff...relight...puff..puff...relight..on and on!
  7. oldreddog

    Free to Good Home

    Due to a shifting rotation I have five or six tobaccos that are getting pushed to the back of the shelf. They are all lat blends and I have about an oz. of each. So I'll send an oz. to the first six members that pm me. I should point out that these are the workhorse type, not show ponies with...
  8. oldreddog

    The Three Word Penzance Thread

    Never having visited or smoked (in) Penzance and not wishing to be left out I tought I'd fire away on a thread of my own, and invite you all to join in however your posts must be limited to three words. To begin; Perfect inelastic supply...
  9. oldreddog

    Chasingembers and a Bit of a Rum Do

    I noted on a few occasions Chasingembers recommend Black Frigate as a fine smoke. Now he seemed to me as a lad who knew his fore from his aft, so I ordered a tin. It arrived earlier this week and is tonights after dinner smoke. Tin note is strong and honestly I could eat this kake. I'm a third...
  10. oldreddog

    The Sow and the Stars

    Well me great auld grandda fecked off to London,or derryLondon as I like to call it back in de rare ol’ times with only half a crown and a baby bottle of powers in his back pocket. He did have a spare pair of jocks in his Gladstone bag all the same but. Lucky for him he’d been well fed de...
  11. oldreddog

    ODF vs. ODF?

    I recently picked up a tin of ODF, and I am completely amazed by this flake, it’s simply superb. So superb in fact that it has curbed my latikia binges over the last few weeks,haha. The tin I picked up was dated 2013 and is the oldest tobacco I have smoked, so of course I want more. I was going...
  12. oldreddog

    Brown Bogie

    Brown Bogie is also known as happy bogie. When I was a chisler a bogie was green not brown, although it did hang in ropes from my nose when I was milling about and booting a ball through a pair of goal posts made from jumpers. I believe bogie is also used as a golfing term but there was very...
  13. oldreddog

    Kendal Dark Shag

    Dark shag made my mouth feel like I woke up after two gorillas had been rutting in me gob all night. I managed about 15 minutes of this stuff before the room note, which was akin to a shaving a swarm of rats dipping the hair in TCP and using grease rendered from the freshly shaved rats as a...
  14. oldreddog

    Pipes & Folk

    I found this article quiet interesting others may too. http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/22/bob-copper-and-sound-old-england-folk-song
  15. oldreddog

    Flake didn't make me flaky and rope didn't make me ropey

    Friday night is when me and old ms red drink some good beer listen to records and catch up after what is usually a busy week. She smokes RYO and I plough through a few bowls. Last Friday after dinner I opened a can of Irish Flake, this has been a very eagerly awaited purchase and I was looking...
  16. oldreddog

    Working toward a seven day rotation

    I ordered this little wonder on Friday last and it arrived this morning from Italy. I am very impressed to say the least its my first Tom Spanu and I'm itching to smoke it this evening
  17. oldreddog

    Reasons to be cheerful 1,2,3

    It’s a dirty old day in Dublin today, foggy grey drizzle and a low oppressive sky. Work has a very low interest rate. I made an order back in August from the States, before I joined this site and when I assumed I could bring in 250g of tobacco and not fall foul of import duties. I belatedly...
  18. oldreddog

    Hold Fast

    I do a fair bit of my smoking whilst reading and have developed a bit of a clenching habit. I do quite like clenching and sipping away. But I have put some slight teeth marks in the stem, which I don't really mind too much. Is clenching the stem good or bad,or each to their own?
  19. oldreddog

    A Question for Plug Smokers

    I'll be honest I am developing a strange fixation with plug tobacco :-) I have been preparing the tobacco by thinly slicing and rubbing out, with very good results. It seems to me that this is yet another wonderful ritual attached to pipe smoking, and worth the little extra time it takes to...
  20. oldreddog

    Let the Day Begin

    When I leave work I ride my motorcycle home and the commute is one of the best parts of the day. My car driving colleagues don't get this, but it makes me smile. Just look at a dog with it's head out of a car window and you'll know how I feel :D Now that after dinner bowl has become part of my...