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  1. flakyjakey

    A Vanishing Breed? - Any Converts? Any Disciples?

    On vacation in the Canary Isles last week I was struck by the fact that in our hotel there were many cigarette smokers, but no other pipe smokers. This hotel attracts many Brits, Germans, Norwegians etc (pipe-smoking nations) and in previous years I have always spotted a few pipers, but not this...
  2. flakyjakey

    Experiment 2 - A Morta, a Clay, a Briar and SG BBF

    BACKGROUND; In a previous post I compared the smoking qualities of 2 Mortas, a clay pipe and a seasoned briar with a single tobacco - SG Balkan Flake. I made this choice because it had been said that Mortas are particularly suited to tobaccos heavy with Latakia and I have been smoking the...
  3. flakyjakey

    2 Mortas, A Clay, A Briar, One Tobacco- An Experiment!!

    In one of the previous Morta threads (I can't remember whether it was my "I'm feeling Morta Tonight", or the "Dunhill DR, Yes or No" one) I said that when I bought my first Chris Askwith Morta he mentioned that buyers had told him they were particularly suited to blends heavy on Latakia. I...
  4. flakyjakey

    Offal And Awfy Nice Wine 'Dans le Sud de la France" !!

    This is part of 'my journal', so if you are not into French food (particularly offal) and wine read no further. If you are, and if you are ever near the Rhone Valley, you might seek out some of the following - you will not be disappointed!! In 2007 a longstanding (male) friend and I travelled...
  5. flakyjakey

    Help With A Tobacco Cellar For My Retirement?

    I am due to retire in five years, if I'm spared (as they say in Scotland ! lol). I collect fine wines and have c. 4000 bottles cellared at 'Octavian Vaults' in Wiltshire. Once retired I intend that I and my family/friends will drink our way through this collection and that in retirement I will...
  6. flakyjakey

    Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

    A properly descriptive title would have been "An Eight-Piper Dinner - Who? and Why Them?", but I get so frustrated with cryptic theme titles that I decided to do one myself !! LOL If you have done this recently on forum please strike it out. But in the UK it's not unusual for us to discuss an...
  7. flakyjakey

    Are The Mods Doing Their Job??

    This clown 'banabride' is ruining important threads and filling up the front page!!!
  8. flakyjakey

    A Gift For The Piper Who Has Everything?

    It's 10.00 am UK time and I'm onsite, completely alone - "So Lonely.." Was that a 'Police' song? This is to me a very serious question. To put it in context, last evening, after two bottles of wine between us, my OH (her indoors) said, apropos of nothing, "What do you want, two or four?"...
  9. flakyjakey

    "Rugger Buggers" Declare Yourselves! Please?

    Before language-sensitive members start diving for their keypads, "Rugger Buggers" is an affectionate term in the UK for people of the Rugby Union Fraternity/Sorority. I note that the beginning of the much-lauded hunting season seems to coincide with the new Rugby season in the Northern...
  10. flakyjakey

    The Last US Rope Man - A Caricature!

    Well, here we are again; just me, the dog, a stoked BBF-loaded James Upshall G-grade pot and little happening on the forum. It's my quiet time, the time when the mind wanders. The "My Personal Thoughts" post seems to have been consigned to the bin, and since I retired to bed at 10.30 pm UK time...
  11. flakyjakey

    Money For Old Rope!

    Well, it's quiet time in the UK again - just one post in the last hour. So, having endured two torrid clinical days I thought it might be time for another 'Flaky Wall of Text' for rothnh to wake up to! LOL. It concerns 'ropes' - tobacco that has been flue cured before being 'twisted' into...
  12. flakyjakey

    Nursing A "Balrog" Hangover!!

    I have not been off-line as long as this since joining the site a month ago. I am typing with one finger as I try to down (and keep down!) a pint of milky tea sweetened with six teaspoons of sugar. I am smoking a bent early 50's Stanwell blast because it is as light as a feather; in its bowl is...
  13. flakyjakey

    Alone (Almost) Again - Why I Joined This Site

    Well, it's 11.45 am in the UK - just me and guhrillastile on-line right now - Quiet time! Most American friends are probably abed, some nursing their grudges, others maybe examining their conscience. Hopefully the former will sleep soundly and wake up ready to smoke the pipe of peace! Anyway, I...
  14. flakyjakey

    Lighten Up - Heaven Hill Bourbon - Any Good?

    Time gentlemen methinks to 'lighten up' on the forum! lol My son - the one who just got a JOB! - brought me back a bottle of 'Heaven Hill' Bourbon from when he was on a legal internship in East Kentucky in the summer. I know some of you partake of Bourbon with your pipe. This stuff he gave me...
  15. flakyjakey

    Ladies Declare Yourselves!! Please?

    09.27 UK time. I'm all alone again and feeling mischievous. Spurred on by the "Pipe Babes" thread and last night's admission in the "Flaky meets Reborn" thread by Al that he was "not ashamed of his sexuality" lol, although he din't specify what that was! LOL So my first plea is for any 'real'...
  16. flakyjakey

    Flaky Meets Reborn! - A Fill in a Dunhill Patent Era!!

    I've bought quite a few of reborn's pipes from his website and auctions, and he has also restored (to perfection) all the estates I have bought. But I had never met him in the flesh, until yesterday. He and his other half (I should now say 'better half! LOL) were in Scotland for a wedding, so we...
  17. flakyjakey

    Home Cooking To Celebrate Son's JOB!!!!!!

    Anyone who has supported kids through college will understand the significance of this, particularly the financial benefits accruing! I had planned to take him and the rest of the immediate family to a top Edinburgh Restaurant last Saturday night, having made my debut appearance at the Edinburgh...
  18. flakyjakey

    "Hand Polished" Any Significance?

    On eBay, and elsewhere, I've seen a few estate pipes described as "hand polished". I would have thought that any pipe bowl not polished mechanically with a buffer is by definition hand polished. Am I missing something? Does the term have any special significance??
  19. flakyjakey

    "All On My Own"

    "All On My Own" - That's a song, isn't it? lol But at 11.40 UK time I was the only one on line!! I have been waiting to be able to post this cheeky message for a while. There have been a few times when we were only two, but this is the first time when I have been home alone! Of course, this is...
  20. flakyjakey

    Dunhill DR - Should I? Shouldn''t I?

    I have been watching a Dunhill DR ** put up on eBay by a reputable European retailer and wondering whether I should bid hard for it. I have 8 Dunhills in my collection and value them all, especially the 'patent era' shells. I have a 1980's HT Collector and a beautiful pre-1970 shell 'quaint'...
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