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  1. puffinbilly

    Grow Your Own

    Thanks Jitterbugdude, Thank you for the tips, especially the planting dimensions, that spacing is huge! My garden is approx 30 x 20 yards. I did have visions of planting it tight like maize I guess I could fit in three rows of 20 plants before I have to dig up the lawn, chop down the pear trees...
  2. puffinbilly

    Grow Your Own

    Hi Guys, Thanks ever so much for the pointers, I thought now might be the time to start if I was to be growing from seed I shall definitely give Virginia Gold a try and perhaps a couple of other tobaccos. I may well take you up on your kind offer to get in touch if I have any specific issues...
  3. puffinbilly

    Grow Your Own

    Hi Woodsroad, I live in Dortmund, Germany; I settled here about 20 years ago following a career in the military and now work as a translator. It was in fact a photo I came across a while ago which showed a black market tobacco plantation in the ruins of Berlin at the end of the war that sprang...
  4. puffinbilly

    Grow Your Own

    Hi Gents, I haven’t made a post for an absolute age I do however occasionally “ghost” these pages. I would like to tap into the wealth of knowledge and experience you chaps hold. Retirement nears and I live in terror of spending my days mooching around town shopping, writing letters to the...
  5. puffinbilly

    The First Smoke Is Great, But the Second Sucks

    You know guys, this is quite strange, I always used to own only one or two pipes and one of them was always for “best”. The other, the workhorse rarely left the corner of my mouth during waking hours. I didn’t have a problem? Bill
  6. puffinbilly

    Did The Codgers Really Have it Right?

    I grew up in Liverpool in the 50’s and early 60’s, if you smoked and you smoked a pipe you usually smoked either Saint Bruno or Condor, there wasn’t much more on the shelves. If you smoked cigarettes there was a choice of Woodbines, Players or Embassy. It wasn’t a hobby it was just the way you...
  7. puffinbilly

    Johann Sebastian Bach Thoughts on Pipe Smoking

    ‘tis a huge leap (200 years) from Baroque, through the Classical era to the Romantics and who influenced whom on the way can tend to become a rather meandering road. Perhaps one should take all music on it's merits, just as we accept that a cheap pipe can be a good smoker, so too can a chap with...
  8. puffinbilly

    Vauen Worth the Money?

    Hi Pleadies, They sell for about a 100 Euros here in Germany. German site I always buy a pipe I have held in my hands and I like, it really dosen't matter who it's made by or what it costs. I have never bought one on-line. Shop around a bit and with §150 in your pocket you will find yourself a...
  9. puffinbilly

    Johann Sebastian Bach Thoughts on Pipe Smoking

    Or this Sonata Nice video
  10. puffinbilly

    Johann Sebastian Bach Thoughts on Pipe Smoking

    Hi Gents, Thanks Phred I was just a'googleing myself. Translating poetry is notoriously difficult, one often has to use an awful lot of poetic license. The original flows naturally and stimulates “the mind’s eye”, any translation will, in comparison, always appear stilted and the rhymes often...
  11. puffinbilly

    How Old Were You?

    I went away to sea with the merchant navy at 16. I worked with “Artie” the old carpenter who had been torpedoed in the North Atlantic during 1943. He was my hero; he smoked a pipe which smelt just like my uncle’s who was also a father figure for me. For three months I was forever scrounging a...
  12. puffinbilly

    For the Remainder of Your Life

    Probably London Mixture, because it tastes good first thing in the morning through to last thing at night.
  13. puffinbilly

    Moved to Europe: Initial Pipe Impressions

    Latbomber, Welcome to Europe, Maastricht is a marvellous town and the Dutch are great people, I travel from Dortmund (Germany) to Brussels every so often and when my wife is with me we always stop in Maastricht for lunch on the way home. The cafes on the square are a great place to enjoy a pipe...
  14. puffinbilly

    Match/Life Hack

    Evening Gents, I use fireplace (long) matches at home and a lighter for out and about. Saves on clothes pegs. Bill
  15. puffinbilly

    Survey on Stem Preferences

    I’m a clencher, I put my pipe between my teeth and it normally stays there until I finish; so it's generally a bent stem for me. The other reason is that my wife generally buys me a pipe as a present for birthdays or at Christmas (certainly beats socks or ties) and she believes a straight pipe...
  16. puffinbilly

    The Rarity Of The Pipe Smoker

    I grew up in Liverpool in the 50's, there were plenty of pipe smokers about then, Pipe smoking was one of the working man’s, pensioner’s or sailor’s pleasures. Cigars and cigarettes were somewhat swanky. Pipe tobacco was even taxed differently and when duty on cigarettes was raised pipe tobacco...
  17. puffinbilly

    Dunhill Royal Yacht - Have I got a bad tin?

    Evening Gents, Thanks again for the comments. We are holding our summer BBQ at the Gardeners’ Club next weekend and I shall no doubt bump into Thorsten, the chap who recommended Royal Yacht to me, we can swap tins and see what he thinks. Though new to the forum I have been smoking a pipe off and...
  18. puffinbilly

    Dunhill Royal Yacht - Have I got a bad tin?

    Thanks for the advice Gents. I shall put it on the back burner for a while and see if it mellows. There don't seem to be any fans of the blend out there. It always seems a bit strange when one has to age, dry, mix, spritz or otherwise play about with a product to make it palatable. I wonder...
  19. puffinbilly

    Dunhill Royal Yacht - Have I got a bad tin?

    Hi Gents, Are there any Dunhill Royal Yacht smokers out there? I do generally appreciate Dunhill's quality tobaccos; one of my regular smokes is London Mixture I also occasionally enjoy Dunhill Flake and recently have become a fan of Navy Rolls. Royal Yacht was recommended to me so I bought...
  20. puffinbilly

    Smoke for Breakfast - Let's Talk About Blends to Start Your Day

    Recently Dunhill navy rolls has been my first pipe of the day. They probably fit the bill, a nice mild virginia perique mix. Bill
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