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  1. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    I grew up in a part of the north of England, where there are a lot of expatriate Scots. My father used to do a lot of business trips up to Scotland and we used to holiday in Scotland with the families of friends he made in his line of work. He also used to come home from his week-long trips to...
  2. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    Last year, a local butcher launched 'Paddington Bear Sausages' in his shop (basically, the usual pork with orange marmalade added). Unsurprisingly, they didn't sell well and have not reappeared this year. I mean, nobody wants to eat Paddington, do they?
  3. MisterBadger

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

    - Not any more. Where we used to live, down south in Hampshire, I had Kingston Black, Tom Putt, Brown Snout, Dabinett, White Norman and Foxwhelp on some land belonging to a friend, but he sold up and I lost access. I then went to work on a local farm with an orchard where we had cider pressing...
  4. MisterBadger

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

    Another afternoon pruning apple trees and sawing logs for seasoning... so, a break with the Peterson Irish Army 999 and Peterson's Irish Cask with a little MacBaren's HH Old Dark Fired in the bottom, plus a mug of rooibos. I was joined by the neighbour's cat, Little Miss (as Warrior Princess...
  5. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    I managed to negotiate that multi-roundabout once... twice, in fact, when escaping. Except in the direst necessity, I intend never to go to Swindon ever again.
  6. MisterBadger

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

    Welcome back, @SmokeyJock - I was thinking you had maybe been suffering from the same viral inconvenience that seems to be very popular throughout the UK just now. An illness that prevents one from enjoying a pipe, is an evil thing indeed.
  7. MisterBadger

    What Pipes Do You Wish You Had?

    Last night I was drooling over pics of an Chris Askwith morta billiard with a briar stem. I may treat myself in the New Year if the PAD daemon hasn't left me. I've never smoked a morta, and it would be nice to have one in the rotation - especially a really good and beautiful one. The only other...
  8. MisterBadger

    Tobacco Restrictions In Connecticut

    In most of us, it is mere laziness. But there are some depraved souls who seem to make bullying micro-management their lives' work. And they seem to gravitate naturally to various institutions of government. To expand much on this would probably get me a slap from the moderators.
  9. MisterBadger

    Greetings from Belgium

    Bonjour and Goedemorgen, Good Morning and Bore Da, from the Welsh Marches. Have you tried your local Tabac de la Semois?
  10. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    Fines for minor traffic violations - real or alleged - are also a significant source of income to some counties in UK. In my experience, Oxfordshire is one of the worst. The County Council has been officially bankrupt for the past two years, so if I have to go through it, I drive VERY carefully...
  11. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    One evening Mrs. Badger and I found ourselves at an event at which we were with a young friend, Mark, who came from deepest Dorset and hadn't seen much of the world outside it, and another, Wullie, a Scot from Glasgow. Wullie started enthusing to Mark about a similar event he'd recently been at...
  12. MisterBadger

    Skippy's Blend of the Week

    As I said earlier, liking or loathing the taste or smell of a thing can be a matter of complex associations. Personally, I am not averse to grandmothers, past or present. Only when their taste in fragrances approximates to 1792. I do wonder what it would be like minus the perfume. Seaweed...
  13. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    Is there a difference? Both are 13Al on the Periodic Table of the Elements... Seriously, yes, the spelling and pronunciation... well, since Hans Christian Ørsted discovered it first and called it "Aluminium" (which it is still known as in Danish), I suspect the American dropped second i is down...
  14. MisterBadger

    Skippy's Blend of the Week

    Kids. A lot of us, when little, would rummage everywhere we weren't supposed to. In adults, I agree that it sounds like serious niche deviancy.
  15. MisterBadger

    Skippy's Blend of the Week

    I'm right with you, there. If, halfway down a bowl my eyes aren't half closed and I don't feel a silly grin creeping over my face, a blend doesn't really do it for me. But it also has to NOT savour of Grandma's underwear drawer :-)
  16. MisterBadger

    Thuoc Lao Tien Lang

    I just ordered a 100g pack. And we shall see what we shall see... :-)
  17. MisterBadger

    Skippy's Blend of the Week

    Excellent review, and a very fair addendum, too. I suspect you're right about 1792 being all dark fired Virginia and mostly African, not American. And about as objective as one can ever manage to be about an experience that is essentially highly subjective. It occurs to me that our senses of...
  18. MisterBadger

    How Cold Is Too Cold?

    Useful for raising early vegetables in spring, too. And you can always insulate with a layer of bubble-wrap inside.
  19. MisterBadger

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

    Finally bought the Christmas tree, where they were handing out mince pies and mulled wine (all reflected in the price, of course). That's it, netted, in the background, sat in a bucket of water. It won't be brought in and decorated until Mrs. Badger's birthday on the 22nd. Got on with pruning an...
  20. MisterBadger

    Famous Historical Pipe Smokers

    Only one cat - but he was just starting out then :)
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