Thanks. Yes, he was Army Corps of Engineers. I’m really glad to have them.
***What Are You Smoking, April 2021?***
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2012 Wessex Brigade Campaign Dark Flake in a Larrysson Dublin.
Now smoking Low Country Pipe & Cigar Natural Virginia & Burley in a 2019 straight smooth dark brown Merchant Service “Bing” Special with a nickel band and black vulcanite tapered stem.
Hearth & Home Viprati in a 1951 Dunhill Shell briar bulldog 4s.
Gawith Hoggarth and Company Sweet Coconut Twist in a Mike Couch Devil ? Anse
Sutliff RR (Edgeworth match) in a Falcon with a brand new Bantam Algiers blasted bowl. Iced coffee with hazelnut flavoring.
I've been to the Wellington Monument at Baslow Edge today!
I've worn my redcoat and smoked a clay in honour of the great man himself, with some of pipe baccy kindly gifted by @marconi.
It went down a treat!
My redcoat jacket, Cavalier hat and clay pipe attracted a lot of attention (in a nice way, not like the 'weird guy' reactions I'd get in Chesterfield!) and a few people I met took my photo - one of them thought I was the Duke of Wellington himself!
It went down a treat!
My redcoat jacket, Cavalier hat and clay pipe attracted a lot of attention (in a nice way, not like the 'weird guy' reactions I'd get in Chesterfield!) and a few people I met took my photo - one of them thought I was the Duke of Wellington himself!
@marconi Thanks for the baccy - I smoked some in my clay when I visited the Wellington Monument at Baslow today!
Nothing tomorrow or Friday / Saturday!
A Dagner Poker filled with Elizabethan mixture, a splash of Jack. I have two days off, so tonight will be multiple pipes 
Orlik Dark Strong in a Tekin smooth bent Billiard. Pic from SP.com
Good Day Folks, Nightcap in a Petersons.
That's a gorgeous pipe..
And I thought you were a burley boy!
HH Burley Flake in a Castello Sea Rock
Some Cult Profile in a cob, another sunset.
Oh the irony! Beautiful sunsets but that orb can play havoc with our skin. I spent too many years as a lifeguard, so it's coming due for me too.
HH Burley Flake in a Willmer diamond shanked lovat.
About a quarter of a bowl left of KBV Festivus GT in a medium bend 2001 Ural lattice Rhodesian with a yellow with white swirls acrylic saddle stem. Watching the Braves-Marlins game.
Frederick Tranter CIRCUS SPUN CUT (3 NUNS clone) in a no-name vintage cherry-wood:-
Thinking about cherry-wood pipes I'm reminded of Sherlock Holmes and the quote from one of the stories - The Adventure of the Copper Beeches - where Holmes and Watson are discussing the latter’s chronicling of their adventures: “You have erred, perhaps,” he [Holmes] observed, taking up a glowing cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a disputatious rather than a meditative mood….”
Image by Sydney Paget from “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches,” Strand Magazine, June 1892.
Speaking about the Sydney Paget drawings for the Holmes stories: I have a 1970s two-page spread from a top- shelf magazine depicting some of his drawings with the words changed from the original to very amusing and quite naughty. Maybe when I've finished re-organising certain parts of my study in a couple of weeks I'll post them and as we're all adults I would hope not to be banned from the site for doing so ...
Maybe Holmes' pipe is less like the one above and more like the one below:-
Thinking about cherry-wood pipes I'm reminded of Sherlock Holmes and the quote from one of the stories - The Adventure of the Copper Beeches - where Holmes and Watson are discussing the latter’s chronicling of their adventures: “You have erred, perhaps,” he [Holmes] observed, taking up a glowing cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a disputatious rather than a meditative mood….”
Image by Sydney Paget from “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches,” Strand Magazine, June 1892.
Speaking about the Sydney Paget drawings for the Holmes stories: I have a 1970s two-page spread from a top- shelf magazine depicting some of his drawings with the words changed from the original to very amusing and quite naughty. Maybe when I've finished re-organising certain parts of my study in a couple of weeks I'll post them and as we're all adults I would hope not to be banned from the site for doing so ...
Maybe Holmes' pipe is less like the one above and more like the one below:-
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