Howdy from Ireland

[corfe]

Many thanks for the warm welcomes!
Hawky - I smoke Condor plug but am not a huge fan - even though I don't inhale it has a tendency to make me dizzy!
Trouttime - those Irish colleens are hard to beat, aren't they?
Shayde - I salute your service sir.
Didache - I am a man of Ulster, surely the most beautiful province of Ireland (I'm biased, obviously.)
Mso489 - It's pretty green here it has to be said - I live right by the sea - I can walk out the door and dive into it in the summer, though it's somewhat bracing!
Seldom - I'm a Northern Irish Catholic from a nationalist family who just grew up wanting to be a soldier for some strange reason. I count myself Irish, since I was born in Ireland, but I do have dual citizenship, like all Ulster people. Best of both worlds!
Georged - I'm a novelist, writing fantasy and science fiction with brief forays into military thrillers. Been churning them out for over 25 years.
Greetings to you all!

 

[derhammer]

welcome aboard

 

[timelord]

G'Day from Aus (but my family are also from Ulster)

 

[crawdad]

Greetings from Virginia!

 

[piperusak]

Welcome from Latvia. Have a good time here

 

[tidalwave]

Welcome from Austin!

 

[irishearl]

Welcome. Ulster you say. My dad's family is from the northern coastal are of county Antrim, Ballintoy area to be exact. Of course, we haven't lived there since 1840. :D

 

[patiobum]

Welcome for Texas

 

[condorlover1]

Greetings!

 

[jaytex1969]

Hello from Austin, Texas.
I spent 7 years in the infantry, enlisted, where one of our guiding principles was never listen to a 2nd Lieutenant. It will get you killed! :nana:
That semi-joking statement shared, I actually had a few very good ones.
Cavendish seems to have a hit-or-miss reputation in the states. What are some that you enjoy and recommend?

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

@JayTex, same here back then just after I finished high school I started off in the infantry MP platoon,and after some two years spent there I went ahead and enlisted in Border Patrol units.

 

[corfe]

Jaytex, the most dangerous thing on a battlefield has always been an officer with a map.
And in the same vein, a friend of mine in the Army who was a one pip wonder (or butterbar) like myself was once recommended by our commanding officer to another CO to whose battalion he was transferring. 'His men would follow him anywhere,' the colonel said generously, before adding, 'Just out of curiosity...'
As far as tobacco goes, I am a hopeless stick in the mud I'm afraid. You guys are all connoisseurs and I'm more of a meat and potatoes chap. I smoke a dark blend called Exclusive Black Cherry made by a firm called Duckworth's in Wales which I have loved for years. Its a damp, dark fragrant tobacco, like someone had made compost out of fresh cherries and then thrown a glass of bourbon in. It is a business to get lit, but once you get it going in my big-bowled Stanwell I can be puffing happily for well over an hour.

 

[dcon]

Welcome from NE FL. I’m headed south of you, to the Republic, in Sept.

 

[Civil War]

Welcome to the forums!!

 

[doug535]

Welcome, I have family in Ballymoney.

 

[hugodrax]

Welcome, sir, and connoisseurship be damned. A man's tongue is his own.