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  1. BingBong

    The Real Cult Blood Red Moon 25/03/14 06:59 GMT

    Total lunar eclipse, we'll just miss it in the UK as it's after sunrise, but the Americas will get a super show, clear skies permitting. The astrologers say this signals three weeks of turmoil, grand announcements, not much substance. Who knows? Sit back, fill your pipes, spectate...
  2. BingBong

    Farewell Angie Stone, Roy Ayers

    Rather shocked that Angie Stone was killed in a road accident last weekend, aged 63, and that Roy Ayers died yesterday aged 84. They were both regulars to my ears and each had more than sufficiently unique qualities to stay in my broader musical rotation. RIP both.
  3. BingBong

    Pipe Smoking In Bed

    Well, a topic to give the faint of heart the vapours, so those of a nervous disposition, look away. It came to the crunch last night. I wanted another smoke but my body was telling me to lay down. Of normal events, I have some c*g*r*tt*s to hand, but picky picky, didn't want those. And so, I...
  4. BingBong

    Tempted By An Extraordinary Set

    https://www.dreamslesssweet.com/available-stock/p/19th-century-erotic-meerschaum-pipe-cheroot-holders As an investment piece, it sure is tugging at me a little. I've never seen such a thing before, but that's youthful innocence for you. What do our experts think?
  5. BingBong

    Michael Baggott RIP

    I've just discovered that poor Michael died 27th Jan. This man was an irreplaceable storehouse of knowledge of antique silver; until late last year, he was presenting new finds on his YouTube channel with great enthusiasm. What he didn't know about hallmarks, goldsmiths and subtle changes in...
  6. BingBong

    Not Hollywood Boulevard

    "The Prisoner" commemorated, but in a fairly unlikely place.
  7. BingBong

    The Great Duvet Cover Conspiracy

    Waaaay back in the mid-70s, I bought my first duvet and covers. The joy of it was little open top corners, like big diagonal buttonholes; you'd get the duvet in, push the corners through, then pick the whole thing up by those duvet corners and shake the cover down. Simples. It was how they did...
  8. BingBong

    The Pine Nut Mystery

    Could be the wrong place for this, but it's about palate and something that affects it. I used to eat pasta quite often with red or green pesto, really liked the stuff and never gave me a problem. But one of the major constituents of pesto is ground pine nut. Sometime 2006-ish, I was visiting...
  9. BingBong

    Ogden's Original (Walnut) Flake, by Mac Baren

    Without a foretaste, I've occasionally been popping a pack of this tobacco in my orders for the last year. Today, another, with a new Chacom pipe, so I opened the oldest pack to burn my new Cuba in. The pipe came with a very restrictive stinger, first thing to go. Now the draught is like the...
  10. BingBong

    Invicta sale

    Pete Ellam at Invicta Briars has a few handmades up for sale 1/2 price - I snagged the smaller of the plateaux on offer, will fill in the blanks here next week when it arrives. I should add that the flooding in Valencia destroyed the business of one of his best briar suppliers - I think the...
  11. BingBong

    Gawith & Hoggarth Sweet Black Cherry Twist

    An interesting one. I have not been a rope or twist smoker, never chewed tobacco in all my years, but a spirit of adventure overcame me in the first days of the new year. Stage one was to take the fairly dry, been on the shelf a while twist and cut a slice from it with my Buck 110. I stuck it...
  12. BingBong

    Jimmy Carter Dies Aged 100

    RIP and fair play to the man. That was a magnificent innings.
  13. BingBong

    Farewell, Smile

    Keith Bellamy (SMILEVIDEOTRAINS) has passed at 87 years of age, gone to rejoin his Lady June. I don't know if he ever smoked a pipe, but I like to imagine him doing so - he was a top quality old codger. I would never have known what "The Water Train" was without him. Pretty niche, I know...
  14. BingBong

    Quick G&H Island Mixture Review.

    Island Gold and Island Mixture are a couple of one-off blends from Gawith & Hoggarth. I've been smoking Island Mixture as a change of pace the last couple of days, in a Falcon meer and one try in the Chacom Reverse Calabash. The new meer bowl on my Falcon was the outright winner. Fresh, it was...
  15. BingBong

    Peterson Lighter Repair: Catch-22

    Seeing as my Peterson pipe lighter,has had its fall broken by planet Earth once too often, I need to send it to Dublin for repair. To this end, I made sure it was empty, put it back in the original box with warranty paper (not that this would apply, to be fair), bubble wrapped it and bagged it...
  16. BingBong

    Peterson's London Factory

    74-77 White Lion St, N1 I may have it all wrong, but I'm reasonably sure this was it - they closed it in 1962. Not sure when it was built; the windows are very 1930s. The pub next door must have lamented their departure. Unrelated, there was a senior school in that street with a highly unusual...
  17. BingBong

    Home Tobacco-Craft

    Postman has delivered. What a gem. Published around 1950 and based on the initiative of the Rev. Hugh Cuthbertson, this slim volume contains the knowledge and experience of amateur tobacco growers of the time. Wow. Looks like I have some reading to do!
  18. BingBong

    "Wot, No Cigarettes?"

    This made me laugh. Hats off to the pipe smokers!
  19. BingBong

    Latest Tudor Beast: Queen's Panther

    I've been picking up the Tudor Beasts coin series in platinum from the Royal Mint, they release two a year on average. There should be 10 in all, plus a "completer" coin; the sixth has just been released and I jumped on it immediately - production of the fourth and fifth in platinum was quite...
  20. BingBong

    Charatan Black Flake

    After having struggled a bit to manfully get through a tin of Charatan's Flake (K&K's take on Dunhill Flake), which did not inspire, although there was nothing particularly wrong with it, it was with some caution that I popped a tin of their Black Flake, their take on Dunhill Dark Flake...
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