No, they live in Texas, and were here for a visit.
***What Are You Smoking, December 2023?***
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Last smoke of the day is year 2019 Prince Albert in a 1980 black rusticated rough top Jobey E27 Stromboli extra ball-shaped poker with a pearl green acrylic stem.
Starting the last day of the year with C&D Haunted Bookshop in a Jirsa Nosewarmer and a cup of Earl Grey wirh milk.
Smoking now some more of a self-made mixture from Käpt'n Barsdorf's Bester Virginia pipe tobacco and rubbed Toscanello Nero Cigarillos in the year's 2023 annual pipe, exclusively made for the members of the Greek Pipe Club by the carver Tolis Vasiliou.
I wish you all a nice New Year's Eve day, good people!
I wish you all a nice New Year's Eve day, good people!
Same tobacco and pipe for bowl 67
Morning everyone, just finished off last night’s Nebari in a Sasieni Eight Dot Straight Grain and am now having Wilke #436 in a 1921 Masta Patent and the usual Lavazza coffee. It’s 10am and it’s dark outside like it was evening, the pub sign next door is screeching on its iron rings like a foley sound effect to a horror movie while the wind howls down the street. A fine end to the last year. 
Loading up some Hal o the wynd in a ser jac. Cooking a leg of lamb today with loads of goodies.
Enjoying some Murray era Dunhill EMP is this Comoy's The Oxford, rusticated paneled billiard.
...could be a scene in a film!
That’s some chip on your shoulder…
Finished up the half bowl of HH Pure Virginia from last night and now on to Sir John Aylesbury Virginia in my Roush Billiard.
With the big discussion on SPC pricing, I thought it time to revisit a jar of Plum Pudding I've had aging for a year and a half. I didn't think much of the blend when I cracked the tin, but it has improved quite a bit. Still overpriced for me. Pipe is a Viprati.
Carrying on with the 2014 Frog Morton from earlier in the day. This time in a ‘Television’ stamped Italian made Rhodesian Church Warden. I pulled this out after seeing Steve’s latest from Reborn Pipes. He just restored a twin of this. I acquired and restored mine a couple years ago. Supposedly, ‘Television’ isn’t a brand, but a design to allow you to watch TV unencumbered from the smoke pouring out of a smaller stemmed pipe. Good news, for I’m about to watch TV. Thankfully they stamped this on the pipe, or I’d never know what to do with it!!!
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Is that a leather wrapped Longchamp pipe stand?
Thank you. It's the first Wiley I ever bought and it's a wonderful smoker. I have a dozen or more Wileys now and most are dedicated to Virginia blends because of the conical chambers, though I don't know that it makes any difference at all. Probably just more pipe mythology.I don’t usually like bent shapes but that is just!
I love that stem, grain and panels.
A B-movie perhaps
Back in from walking WeeBay in the rain, I had to drag him out the house as he hates the wet weather and back home, that dog can’t make up his mind at all. Had a bowl of St Bruno on the walk in the old Civic and I’m about to have some Crystal Palace in a Sasieni Four Dot Amesbury and I’m drinking a hot mug of Smoking Bishop, a Victorian red wine and Port punch often mentioned in Dickens novels. I roasted oranges and a lemon studded with cloves yesterday and steeped them in the wine and Port overnight with various spices and it’s incredibly good and I thoroughly recommend it on a cold rainy day like this. 
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