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  1. MisterBadger

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

    Lost my work ethic today - spent all morning writing poetry - but at least made a start on winter-pruning the apple trees this afternoon. Took with me a bowful of Peterson's Irish Cask in this much-abused Rhodesian estate Meer. But she sits, and she's a faithful little smoker. With the usual...
  2. MisterBadger

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

    All GH blends are topped with fire-retardant - didn't you know that?
  3. MisterBadger

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

    Let's hope the medics are wrong, and you'\ll be back to normal in a day or three.
  4. MisterBadger

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

    I read that first as 'Cwmbargoed', and was surprised I never new they were growing tobacco in the South Wales valleys... :)
  5. MisterBadger

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

    That Ringo is a handsome chap - I've never seen a male ginger tabby before: they're quite rare, I'm told. At least, here in UK.
  6. MisterBadger

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

    Thank you. I found the original 1890s design on the web, downloaded and printed it, and stuck it on an old repurposed tin. I work as a costumed interpreter at a heritage farm showing farming life circa 1900, and this is also why most of my pipes will pass muster as Victorian. I like to get the...
  7. MisterBadger

    Why Buy Tins?

    Amen to that... and I find there are are folk here who won't smoke a new pipe for the same reason. It seems to be missing the point entirely.
  8. MisterBadger

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

    The first day of Advent which, being a penitential season, I decided to try and see off the last of the Sammael Gagworth 1792 Relights Granny 's Underwear Drawer Flake, in the condemned Chinese basket billiard. After the 17th charlight, it didn't smoke too bad, and stayed alight long enough for...
  9. MisterBadger

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

    Good, but there is no substitute for a sparring partner that fights back...
  10. MisterBadger

    An Ode to Samuel Gawith's '1792'—Apologies to Dr. Suess

    @eljimmy - You say 'dedicate', I say 'sacrifice'. Certainly a victim must be found; otherwise it is necessary to carry out the full 24-hour exorcism ritual with salt, holy water and good Latin imprecations, to banish the ghost.
  11. MisterBadger

    An Ode to Samuel Gawith's '1792'—Apologies to Dr. Suess

    Thank'ee :) I have one, maybe two pipefuls of the stuff left, and I've paid for it so I'm dam' well going to smoke it, so might well light some up today... you know, having written what I've written, if I end up actually enjoying it I shall be really disappointed in myself. :confused:
  12. MisterBadger

    Pipe for clenching

    Balance *and* weight, in my experience.
  13. MisterBadger

    Why Buy Tins?

    Artisanal, Small Batch.
  14. MisterBadger

    Famous Historical Pipe Smokers

    Royal Air Force Chief Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder KCB, Deputy Supreme Commander at Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force under General Eisenhower. In this and other photos he can be seen smoking a Liverpool briar. Apparently he liked to smoke a Dunhill (can we see the white spot?) with...
  15. MisterBadger

    🎄🌟 The Unofficial Official PM Secret Santa 2024 Thread 🌟 🎄

    I'd wait until Christmas morning. The day dignifies the gift; and if it turns out to be worthy of Som Besths, so much the better - and if Santa thinks you've been a bad lad this year and what you get is disappointingly close to what (I hope) some others have joked here about sending, then your...
  16. MisterBadger

    Happy Birthday Jiminks!!!

    Long may your pipes smoke :)