How're You? From the Welsh Marches

[MisterBadger]

Smoked a Ropp cherrywood in my youth, preferring Dutch aromatics. Got into historical reenactment, smoked clays mostly, to look the part. Became a cigatette smoker to the exclusion of all else. Gave up tobacco, took up e-cigs but - getting back into re-enactment a little while ago, was mortified when another costumed colleague saw me taking a furtive toke on one and took me to task. So I bought a pipe and a sample pack of Virginia/Perique blends... and another pipe... and another... and have since settled on Peterson's Irish Cask and McConnell's Scottish Cake, which I enjoy smoking in one of four briars, four meerschaums and a mysterious instrument I believe to be a pearwood. And I'm here because I'm impressed by the knowledge and wisdom one can benefit from here.

 

[BingBong]

Hello from London UK.

Do you know @The Clay King ?

 

[WVOldFart]

Hello and welcome from West Virginia, USA.

 

[proteus]

 

[Speak Easy]

Greetings from Oklahoma. Welcome to the forum!

 

[RPK]

Welcome from New Jersey, USA

 

[PaulRVA]

Welcome From Virginia USA

 

[The Clay King]

Smoked a Ropp cherrywood in my youth, preferring Dutch aromatics. Got into historical reenactment, smoked clays mostly, to look the part. Became a cigatette smoker to the exclusion of all else. Gave up tobacco, took up e-cigs but - getting back into re-enactment a little while ago, was mortified when another costumed colleague saw me taking a furtive toke on one and took me to task. So I bought a pipe and a sample pack of Virginia/Perique blends... and another pipe... and another... and have since settled on Peterson's Irish Cask and McConnell's Scottish Cake, which I enjoy smoking in one of four briars, four meerschaums and a mysterious instrument I believe to be a pearwood. And I'm here because I'm impressed by the knowledge and wisdom one can benefit from here.

@MisterBadger Looking at getting into living history re-enactment. Which period do you re-enact? Have you ever smoked a clay?

 

[FurCoat]

Welcome from North Carolina

 

[/Adam\]

I’m one of the newer members here and am also grateful to be able to soak up all the knowledge and wisdom that’s flows throughout this place. Happy to have another lifelong learner here with us. Cheers bud.

 

[The Libertine]

Welcome from NYC

 

[PipeIT]

Welcome!

Is it actually the Welsh Marshes you are from, or the Welsh Marches?

Also what town exactly?

Aloha!

 

[trouttimes]

Welcome from Alabama, USA.

 

[MisterBadger]

Welcome!

Is it actually the Welsh Marshes you are from, or the Welsh Marches?

Also what town exactly?

Aloha!

Damn Autocorrupt. It's the Welsh Marches if you're English, or the English Marches if you're Welsh. Town is Ludlow (Llwydlo), formerly the administrative capital of Greater Wales.

ED: Corrected the title. ~jpm

 

[Roach1]

Welcome from Southwest Germany.

 

[Flatfish]

Greetings from Ceredigion

 

[StayPufft]

Welcome from Ontario!

 

[MattRVA]

Welcome from Virginia.

 

[huntertrw]

MisterBadger:

Welcome to the Forums! Based upon your User Name I assume that you are a fan of the author Kenneth Grahame and his book The Wind in the Willows?

If my family's folklore is correct, my father's forebears came to the United States from Wales.

 

[JOHN72]

Welcome from Spain.