I love my churchwardens. I don’t always smoke them, for a variety of reasons. But if pressed, I enjoy smoking a churchwarden more than any other style of pipe.
Perhaps it’s the fact that when I do smoke one, for me, it necessitates at least one free hand. Which in turn means I am not engaged in any other distracting activities & am simply enjoying a nice, relaxing bowl. I’m also a shameless Lord of the Rings fan. Even before the wonderful (ahem…Bombadil’s absence notwithstanding) films were released, my childhood was filled with stories of the Shire. And of course, churchwardens figure abundantly in Middle Earth.
Which brings me to the title of this thread of this thread.
I’m not exactly a clencher. I give it the old college try nearly every other day. Fumblingly, I might add. I admire those of you who can, like Bing, stuff a pipe between your teeth & puff away whilst doing other things. I end up drooling all over myself like a toddler with a lollipop, or bouncing ash out & making a mess of things. It’s frustrating. But I keep trying.
You can forget about it with my churchwardens. For one thing, I don’t want to chew up my bits. For another, just read the above.
As Gandalf makes his first appearance in the film, he is, naturally, smoking a rugged, long-stemmed pipe. And he is clenching. And not just clenching. The wizard is doing so while driving a horse-drawn cart. Across bumpy terrain. Sans shocks or struts.
Sir Ian McKellan must be a world class clencher.
Any of you clench your chirchwardens? How?????
Perhaps it’s the fact that when I do smoke one, for me, it necessitates at least one free hand. Which in turn means I am not engaged in any other distracting activities & am simply enjoying a nice, relaxing bowl. I’m also a shameless Lord of the Rings fan. Even before the wonderful (ahem…Bombadil’s absence notwithstanding) films were released, my childhood was filled with stories of the Shire. And of course, churchwardens figure abundantly in Middle Earth.
Which brings me to the title of this thread of this thread.
I’m not exactly a clencher. I give it the old college try nearly every other day. Fumblingly, I might add. I admire those of you who can, like Bing, stuff a pipe between your teeth & puff away whilst doing other things. I end up drooling all over myself like a toddler with a lollipop, or bouncing ash out & making a mess of things. It’s frustrating. But I keep trying.
You can forget about it with my churchwardens. For one thing, I don’t want to chew up my bits. For another, just read the above.
As Gandalf makes his first appearance in the film, he is, naturally, smoking a rugged, long-stemmed pipe. And he is clenching. And not just clenching. The wizard is doing so while driving a horse-drawn cart. Across bumpy terrain. Sans shocks or struts.
Sir Ian McKellan must be a world class clencher.
Any of you clench your chirchwardens? How?????
d now I’m…thirsty.