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  1. flakyjakey

    The Carolina Reaper!!

    Dinnae dae it.......jist dinnae!! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43699484 Trust me, I am a doctor, acting on this occasion as locum tenens for Jay.
  2. flakyjakey

    "Aaaaaah............Condor!!!!!"

    “Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah………..Condor” was the catchphrase on TV adverts in the early 60s, when I was just a boy. They featured a man enjoying his pipe, oblivious to all external influences, contemplating the tobacco. Then he would whisper, “Aaah……Condor!!” This changed colloquial non-piping language for...
  3. flakyjakey

    Watch Out Mr Pease!! There's a New Kid on the Block!!!

    While on sabbatical I made a BIG DISCOVERY!! There is a (relatively) new kid on the block – a ‘Ninja’ blender called Hans. His Germany-based ‘boutique’ tobacco company, ‘HU-Tobacco’, has a good website and, unlike UK suppliers, he makes it relatively easy to buy from outside the EU. Hans’ blends...
  4. flakyjakey

    The "Eternal" Starcat Thread - A Personal View

    Personally I had hoped this thread would by now have disappeared off the immediate radar, but I don’t know if many others feel the same and now it seems too late for it to die a dignified death. When I returned to PM Forums I took a good look at it, and I’m glad I didn’t post. The OP seems...
  5. flakyjakey

    Spring Has Sprung!!!!!

    At least it has here in the western highlands of Scotland!! After some of the worst storms in living memory the sun is OUT and has some warmth in it. Snow is still deep on the hilltops, but across the loch from the cottage sheep are being herded down for the lambing. The birds are singing and...
  6. flakyjakey

    Anti-tongue Bite Strategies (cont.)

    Anti-Tongue Bite Strategies – - Give up pipe smoking (I would rather cut off my left testicle with a blunt penknife!) - Take a break for a few days (in severe cases this may be necessary, but avoidance tactics are preferable) - Develop a gentle ‘sipping’ cadence rather than big puffs (this...
  7. flakyjakey

    Sabbatical Thoughts 2 - The Thorny Issue of Tongue Bite (long but less rambling)

    Rather than indulging in necrophilia I've started a new thread on a subject which has been much on my mind over the past three months. Those not prone to tongue bite should consider themselves very lucky. Those who are have probably learned ways of mitigating or even averting it. I am prone to...
  8. flakyjakey

    Sabbatical Thoughts 1 - A Toast "To Absent Friends" (long and rambling)

    My three months is up! I have finished the labour on my research article. I have also spun out a company ‘Edinburgh Medical Imaging’. The process of securing VC funding has been painful in the extreme, with three founders, five (!) different sets of lawyers etc, etc. But a couple of weeks ago...
  9. flakyjakey

    Christmas Presents and Lunch

    We managed to keep everyone abed till 09.00. Then Present Time! From Pauline I got the aforementioned 1908 Peterson. From young Charlotte a Dunhill wallet/billfold - lovely leather - my current one is falling apart. From 'big boy' Andrew a Peterson pipe wallet for two pipes, tobacco and a little...
  10. flakyjakey

    "Tidings of Comfort..." - A Christmas Epistle on Passive Smoking (Long, Rambling

    A Christmas Epistle As I said in my ‘Last Post’ I am taking a ‘sabbatical’ from PM Forums in order not to be distracted from a major research and writing exercise that is absorbing all my energy just now. However I have taken a break over Christmas Day and Boxing Day and thought I would check...
  11. flakyjakey

    The Last Post - and "Her Indoors"

    No, I have not spat out my dummy (pacifier) or thrown my toys out of the perambulator in a fit of pique at some real or imagined insult. I have not been banned nor have I resigned, but I will not be posting in the Forums (or any other site) for the foreseeable future. The only reason for this...
  12. flakyjakey

    Does MacBaren's 'ODF' Flake Age Well in Tins?

    I had never tasted this great tobacco before receiving it from a kind forum member. I love its deep Va/Per richness and I am delighted it is available in the UK. I am thinking of adding a few tins to my stash for 2018 and was wondering whether anyone could tell me how well it ages in the tin?
  13. flakyjakey

    Remembrance Sunday

    Today the people of Great Britain and the Commonwealth countries mark the end of the First World War when millions of young men were killed in a particularly pointless conflict. Many wear poppies but I don’t need to, I simply remember my granddad. He was a “Boy Soldier”, one of many who lied...
  14. flakyjakey

    666 - The "Number of The Beast" - Random Post!

    I've just seen that I was on 666 posts - "the number of the beast" ! lol. I'm now on 661 - Phew !!!!! LOL No need to respond.
  15. flakyjakey

    Are You Feeling Odd Today?

    I'm starting to enjoy cryptic post titles, as long as they are my own!! LOL Apropos of nothing I was listening to BBC Radio 4 on the car radio as I drove to the supermarket this morning. The announcer said that a sequence of odd numbers like that in today's date 9/11/13 (or 11/9/13 in the US)...
  16. flakyjakey

    Esoterica's Stonehaven and Germain's RDF - A Side-by-Side Comparison

    This is not a formal tobacco review and there has been so much general commentary, particularly around ‘Stonehaven’, that I thought this topic might best be posted here. Apologies for the delay in reporting these impressions but I had two pages of notes that needed condensing. For clarity, I...
  17. flakyjakey

    "Fair Exchange Is No Robbery"

    I hate cryptic posts, don't you? But the title to this post is not as cryptic as it may seem! I recently exchanged some tobaccos with Pruss and Misterlowercase. Pruss has recently reviewed a couple of my plugs, and there may be more to come about his views on the other tobaccos. In terms of...
  18. flakyjakey

    A Pipe Smoker's Autumn Haiku?

    It is autumn. The sun is low in the sky, the leaves have turned and winter lies ahead. Here in Edinburgh the first two equinoctial storms have passed; it is a sunny Sunday morning and even an old Rugger Bugger of a pipe smoker can wax lyrical. I know some of you are writers, and many forum...
  19. flakyjakey

    My Final Pipe Purchase Arrived Today

    I have a lot of pipes. Probably not as many as some members, but I smoke them all, even my 'museum pieces', at least once a month and a few considerably more often than that. I will not sell any, although I may give some as gifts to piping converts. So, a couple of weeks ago I made the...
  20. flakyjakey

    It's Official - Scotland is The Third Best Country in the World to Visit !!

    This week 'Lonely Planet' asserted that after Brazil (you won't get a decent pint there!) and Antarctica (you won't be able to smoke there for fear of environmental damage!) Scotland is the best place in the world to visit in 2014. However they may not have been aware of Peck's crucial...