C&D Quiet Nights in a Paykoc meer for Meerschaum Monday.
***What Are You Smoking, December 2024?***
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2:1 mix of Orlik Golden Sliced to KBV Study in Scarlet in a Wessex billiard.
CRF24 and the little meer are getting me through the rest of the day’s adventures. Little ghost of Gaslight making this bowl pretty special. 
Tilbury in the new Kai Nielsen (Jewel of Denmark B Cross Grain).
14 grams...
14 grams...
Just finished smoking and reviewing Low Country Carolina Christmas 2024 in a 1960s Austrian meerschaum bent apple with a tapered yellow stem. I'll post the review here after I proof read it. It goes on sale tomorrow at 6 p.m. EST.
2018 BB1938 in a Chacom Nougat Bent Dublin
Today I did a side-by-side comparison between C&D’s Three Friars and my version of Three Nuns. The Friars had a more distinctive Virginia component but definitely is in the same ball park as the current version of Three Nuns. I preferred my version as it’s got a bit more complexity, and while it has a bit more punch, it’s smoother. I used an old Hardcastle Diplomat and an even older Medico “Double-Dri” for the test.
Mac Baren Mixture Scottish Blend in an AKB meerschaum.
A third of a bowl left of year 2013 Esoterica Tilbury in a smooth medium bend 1999 Peterson Sherlock Holmes Series Milverton with a sterling silver band and a black vulcanite p-lip stem.
Looks like a toothpick compared slot some of the other pipes you have
Davidoff Red Lable with the last of my Warhorse Bar in a small but good Ropp Etudiant. 
Another pipe of Coniston Cut Plug in the Grabow Lark tonight, with a cup of English breakfast tea.
There's just so many flavors going on in Coniston Cut Plug that I've been smoking it almost every day for about 2 weeks now and still haven't tired of it, which is a real rarity for me. Sometimes it's a little more Burley chocolatey, sometimes it's a little more red Virginia fruity, sometimes it's a little more Lakeland floral, but it's always dark, rich, and satisfying. There's a lot to taste here and it's always little different from puff to puff, in the same way that really good English blends are.
There's just so many flavors going on in Coniston Cut Plug that I've been smoking it almost every day for about 2 weeks now and still haven't tired of it, which is a real rarity for me. Sometimes it's a little more Burley chocolatey, sometimes it's a little more red Virginia fruity, sometimes it's a little more Lakeland floral, but it's always dark, rich, and satisfying. There's a lot to taste here and it's always little different from puff to puff, in the same way that really good English blends are.
No pictures tonight but I’m enjoying Elizabethan Mixture in a Rossi Lovat.
Christmas gift to myself. The new old stock DB Berlin Horn 9mm twin bore. What an awesome pipe. Second smoke in it. This time Pete Hyde park. It’s such a unique smoker. Thank you Santa.
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Passing the first third of this bowl of Wilke Surbrug’s Crystal Palace in a dark brown smooth straight post-WW2 LHS Certified Purex 79 bulldog with a nickel ferrule and tenon with a black vulcanite saddle stem. This will get me to dinner time.
