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  1. MisterBadger

    ***What Are You Smoking, December 2024?***

    A day harvesting vegetables, then driving Mrs Badger for yet more Christmas shopping, listening on the car radio to choral Evensong from Llandaff Cathedral.... followed by a bowl of Thuoc Lao Tien Lang in this little Meerschaum prince. I shall post a review elsewhere on site when I've recovered...
  2. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    @dd57chevy - Mainly, yes. Like the house-swap in (ugh!) 'Love Actually'. Preferably somewhere Olde-Worlde and picturesque. And where you get more house for your London money. Towns in the Welsh Marches -= and West Cornwall - are favourite.
  3. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    Pah! I could cite you a whole sheaf of Christmas carols, much song both sides the pond, the lyrics and music for which were composed by Brits in the centuries following the great Purcell. 'Hark! The Herald Angels Sing', 'Once In Royal David's City', 'In The Bleak Midwinter', 'Good Christian Men...
  4. MisterBadger

    Hello from Minnesota

    We've already met on the 'Is Pipe Smoking Holy' thread, but...
  5. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    I certainly hope so. What happens to communities where all the available accommodation is holiday lets, second homes, AirBnB or just so dam' expensive, that no traders or service providers can afford to live there? Here, all the streets in the picturesque Old Town seem to have at least half a...
  6. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    I wish you luck with that. Round here, the market seems absolutely dead, and in any case, winter is never a good time to sell.
  7. MisterBadger

    Thriving in the Upcoming Tobacco Apocalypse

    The "Love" emoji is for everything but the last line.
  8. MisterBadger

    Thriving in the Upcoming Tobacco Apocalypse

    If the worst comes to the worst, it'll be home cultivation. I have the land, I can learn the rest. It would be interesting to do so. It could, in time, even become a nice earner.
  9. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    Probably not in Cornwall, where transport costs are a bigger overhead than where I am, and where housing costs haver become extremely silly in the last couple of years.
  10. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    Mrs B and I actually moved from one of those 'poorer' mustard-yellow areas, to a red-ochre one. We are actually richer here, because just about everything costs less.
  11. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    Yes, it's not a big hit with Catholics over here, and I once courted a Derry girl who was over here in her first year at University in the city where I once lived. Fireworks were not a thing in Northern Ireland (I suspect they are still not, now). The explosions and repeated bangs simply...
  12. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    I'm normally quite conservative about marmalade. Until last year, we had a greengrocer here who we bought all the fruit and veg. from that we don't grow ourselves, and he used to make his own coarse cut seville orange marmalade in his own jars, which we would take back for refills. It was...
  13. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    I'm a Cooper's Coarse Cut Oxford Marmalade man, myself...
  14. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    @mawnansmiff - Aye, an' dinnae forget The Broons, an' a' :)
  15. MisterBadger

    Do You Associate Pipe Smoking with a Sense of Spirituality?

    So what you're saying is that it's like a bowl of fruit, and some of us are talking grapes at others who have bananas in mind?
  16. MisterBadger

    Do You Associate Pipe Smoking with a Sense of Spirituality?

    It could. But it doesn't seem to, to many who have posted here, though it does to others. Perhaps what we have here is a tacit lack of agreement as to what we think either word means.
  17. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    London (and larger Brit cities, to a lesser extent) have inflated prices for everything. The money turnover per capita is therefore much higher. They also trade in things that don't exist, like commodity futures, and currency values which have no intrinsic value and are real only because of...
  18. MisterBadger

    My 3000th Post and 65th Anniversary

    Mrs. Badger: What are you reading? Me: There's this guy been smoking a pipe for 65 years. Mrs. B.: It's a wonder he ever got anything done. This is what I have to live with on a daily basis.
  19. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    I've driven through London a few times, and as a native, it still scares the crap out of me. Driving in rural Britain has its advantages: off the main highways it's fairly quiet but in my part of UK road signs are scarce as the county council assumes that, if you're not on a main road, you know...
  20. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    I was incredulous (forgive me), so I Googled, and could only find this. "Vinni-Pukh" sausage. Was the ex in question Bulgarian, by any chance?
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