***What Are You Smoking, Sept. 2022?***

[ashdigger]

Finishing the night with some Gallaher’s Deluxe Mixture in an 1892 W.H. Newman Ltd Meer.

 

[PipeIT]

Good nights. After a bachelor dinner, I mean, I'm married, but I'm home alone. Yeah, I know, you want to know what the hell a bachelor dinner is. Okay, so I made some hot dogs, with mayo and mustard, ketchup and a little cheese, kind of like a hot dog, but kind of messy, you know. A golden apple for dessert. And now enjoying a glass of whiskey and a few ounces of chocolate, with an H Upmann Coronas Junior cigar. It's a cool, quiet night, the local police sirens, always playing at this hour. I'm listening to the radio, some 60's/70's Spanish music. I've spent 600 euros on whiskey, in a couple of days, or was it a couple of hours, I can't remember. I don't have any more space at home, I already have stuff in the bathtub. Maybe if I go on like this, I'll be single before the new year. Damn, this whisky is incredible.View attachment 171038

600 Euros for a bottle of whiskey or 600 Euros for many bottles of whiskey? hmm

WOW if a 600 Euro bottle of whiskey, that must be one fine night!

 

[PipeIT]

Family lunch with my soon-to-be 100yo Dad at a local Chinese BBQ-meat restaurant.
Now about to enjoy the 1st of 2 bowls
Esoterica Margate
In a 1909 Barling (arched Barling's make logo) chubby bent billiard, amberoid stem, orific bit

And a small tot of Cognac Delamain Reserve de la Famille

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WOW 100 years! Big congrats to Dad!

I wish him well, the best to you and Dad!

 

[OzPiper]

WOW 100 years! Big congrats to Dad!

I wish him well, the best to you and Dad!

Thank you !

My grandparents lived into their 90’s with very little medical intervention. So longevity is in his genes

Dad had a heart attack when he was 62yo.
His cardiologist said he didn’t qualify to be treated in the ICU because he was over 60yo. Meaning he was using up an expensive resource and probably not going to survive that much longer.

So his turning 100yo is a bit if a poke-in-the-eye for the medical profession

Perhaps it’s more accurately a reflection of the progress made in medicine in the past 40years

 

[JimInks]

About a third of a bowl left of Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a 2019 black rusticated Peterson 312 full bend billiard with a military mount and a nickel cap with a cumberland 4AB stem and a N.A.P. bit.

 

[JOHN72]

600 Euros for a bottle of whiskey or 600 Euros for many bottles of whiskey? hmm

WOW if a 600 Euro bottle of whiskey, that must be one fine night!

Maybe the translator did a bad job. No, I meant I spent 600 euros on bottles of whiskey, the price range is 43 to 115 euros, so I was able to buy a modest amount. I would not spend 600 euros on a single bottle. At the moment my economy does not allow it.

 

[UB 40]

A noble deed indeed for the King of Clay. You can find garbage washed ashore in even the most remote places and I've seen whole vacuum cleaners with a set of new bags and all, half buried in the soil of our small local forest. The way this planet is generally treated is simply just disgusting.
Good for us all that people are out there like you are. I hope it gets the litterbugs to reflect,
even if just a little bit.

OT:
Preparing for a drunk but good night's rest with some LatVA/Turkish in my clay, for a change...
It's just too easy to have a quick and strong smoke with it, I haven't had the pleasure of trying a Meer yet and I'm eager to but for now and in my humble opinion, a simple and humble clay pipe will kick any other pipes ass. The only downside is the accumulation of moisture, which a Meer would probably handle much better.

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Once again in your sunken angel pipe. Enjoy!

 

[JimInks]

Almost half way through this bowl of 2022 Dominican produced Carter Hall in a 1929-1931 KBB Kaywoodie Drinkless 7782 straight smooth walnut bulldog with a tapered black vulcanite stem. This'll do it for me, today.

 

[Brendan]

Smoked a 50:50 bowl of Amphora Burley and GLP Union Square so far today.
In the Savinelli Fantasia 111KS.

Messrs. Jensen and Pease I salute you both.

 

[simong]

Finishing the night with some Gallaher’s Deluxe Mixture in an 1892 W.H. Newman Ltd Meer.

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Wonder if that Gallahers was the same as Benson & Hedges ‘Finest Smoking Mixture’ (blended for them by Gallahers). Does it taste like you’re smoking a vintage cheese? That’s what the Bensons reminded me of. Mild but exquisite.
Good Morning.
Erinmore in a Peterson, starts my Sunday off in style.

 

[Chaukisch]

Anthony (my volunteer group leader) says the clay pipe and pewter tankard he found during a river clean-up were mine...
He says the Condor packet I found while litter picking was mine as well

Nah, you know better than to just carelessly toss something away. Sounds like good activity though, walking about in the nature with good company and some friendly banter.

I know your fantastic looking Virginia gold leaf is going to be the main component of "Clay King"

I'll personally pull every little strip off the leaf by hand instead of just cutting it. I tried different ways of cutting the tobacco and I find that this careful ripping and rubbing will result in an incredibly sweet and full smoke. The differences are pretty extreme to be honest. And only the finest goes into the Clay King blend!

I found a medieval looking curtain pole that had been thrown out for scrap; my Belgian tapestry now hangs from it and I got a fleur de lys hinge found during a river clean up. My dad cleaned it up, painted it and made me a wall plaque; it now hangs in my medieval Great Hall themed living room!

That sounds great, you must send me a picture or two of that great hall one day. I'd love to see it!

Once again in your sunken angel pipe. Enjoy!

So it shall be written, so it shall be done.

OT:
After a good muscle burn it's always nice to calm down with a calmer kind of burn. Went out in the garden to enjoy the occasional ray of sunday sunshine with something to smoke, read/think and stroke. It never takes long until my little buddy Ernie shows up.
The Burley/VA mix did what I wanted it to do, today my palate finally updated and got some really nice and nutty Burley flavors that I never tasted before. That was a real "wow" moment.



Have a nice sunday, everbody!

 

[judcole]

HH Burley Flake in an MM Washington.

 

[Tom Sawtooth]

Rattray's - MF in a Stanwell Danske Club and a Cup of Joe.

 

[captpat]

Stratford in a Tekin Meerschaum Full Bent Dublin.

 

[Brendan]

Pegasus in a Peterson 106

 

[manny816]

Peretti Thanksgiving Day in a cob to start the day.

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

Stoved McConnell Red VA from a Tonino Jacono bent apple.

 

[ashdigger]

Wonder if that Gallahers was the same as Benson & Hedges ‘Finest Smoking Mixture’ (blended for them by Gallahers). Does it taste like you’re smoking a vintage cheese? That’s what the Bensons reminded me of. Mild but exquisite.
Good Morning.
Erinmore in a Peterson, starts my Sunday off in style.
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It’s a light Latakia blend. Like Balkan Sobranie with a green tin.

Here’s a pic of the tin

 

[LotusEater]

SPC Potlatch in an Ardor Beehive

 

[UncleRasta]

Good Sunday morning all. The no premier league footie weekend continues. Last night I tried Poplar Camp for the first time. Quite nice early on. Will give it a couple more goes today. Starting though with Burley Flake #5 in an unfinished Savinelli 644.