Lane MV1000 in a 1971 birthyear Dunny Hungarian
***What Are You Smoking, February 2025?***
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White Horses plus perique in Kai Tomato.
Starting the day with some Early Morning Pipe in this cob, happy IPSD everybody! 
Special Virginia in a clay. This blend dates back to 1770 so very well suited to clay pipes. Plastic pouch but I'm saving my pipe baccy packets for refilling when I go to Buxton as Appleyard's sells loose Gawith Hoggarth & Wilson's of Sharrow. Coniston Cut Plug is a fitting baccy for the King's Clay.
Peterson
St Bruno flake
Feels like 17 degrees outside.
Was also 3:20 AM
St Bruno flake
Feels like 17 degrees outside.
Was also 3:20 AM
Tasting some HU Old Fredders. Oddly enough it tastes a lot like my home blend of Janneman and Louisana Broken. Good stuff. Its in a Kai
Getting started with C&D Burley Flake #3 in the Rattray's apple. Coffee.
Second smoke today, some Bagpiper's Dream in this basket pipe. This is the first pipe I ever smoked, and when I bought it I had no idea what I was looking for. I'm not convinced it's even necessarily briar, it has some kind of lacquered finish that is slightly warped on the shank, and it's heavier than any of my other pipes. Despite all this, for my first year of smoking it was my best smoking pipe. I rarely use it now, had considered chucking it but I figured seeing as it's IPSD I'd have a bowl in the pipe that started it all for me. If anyone's come across anything similar let me know!
Just doing tastings today. Goodies arrived so its meer chips and a pinch. And damn it GLP, Windjammer is really pretty awesome. Yet another (overpriced in EU) blend that I will need to stock. Smoking a pinch in another smaller bowl Kai. At least Im not in Canada or Australia.
C&D Exclusive in a Miscoi Canadian and Coffee 
️ on the side.
️ on the side.
Sutliff Virginia Slices in an MM Washington.
Old Joe Krantz in a Karl Erik Handmade. 
Mac Baren Vanilla Cream in a Falcon. French roast on the side after soft boiled eggs for breakfast.
- Seems to me that every other idiot one meets these days has a degree. An old friend of mine used to be a thatcher (you can't get a degree in that yet, in the UK), and at the end of every winter would go up to the Norfolk fens to cut reeds for the year's roofing stock. One year he encountered an arrogant juvenile with a recent degree in Environmental Studies, working for the wildlife trust that owned the land the reeds were on.
He told my friend that he shouldn't be cutting the reed beds because the reed warblers needed the long, uncut plants to nest safely among in the spring and they needed to be encouraged to come back to the wetlands. My friend began to tell him that humans have been cutting the reeds down for thatching every year since the New Stone Age (if not before). Your man the 20something year old ecology expert wasn't having it.
The discussion was suddenly interrupted by a commotion as a cloud of migrant reed warblers flew in from the south, ignoring the standing reeds and making a beeline for the swathe of reeds that had already been cut. Exit The Expert, in a sulk...
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Happy IPSD
Woke up with Ryback+P in the Briarlee driving in.
Now having GH&Co Aniseed Twist in my Pete Sportsman 87.
Lots of black coffee and water is the drinks for the morning.
Woke up with Ryback+P in the Briarlee driving in.
Now having GH&Co Aniseed Twist in my Pete Sportsman 87.
Lots of black coffee and water is the drinks for the morning.
Trapped at home all morning by workmen digging up the pathway that connects our row of houses to the road, in search of water leaks. At least they've found them now and are laying new pipes but there's nowhere for them to put the earth and rubble they've dug up, except pile it all on the footpath. Time to go and see if they want another brew. Consolation of Gawith Hoggarth Black Irish XX Twist in the Missouri Meerschaum...
Happy IPSD! Exclusive for breakfast for my grim beltway commute. I usually opt for burley this time of day, but this perique is hitting the spot!
This pipe is gorgeous and a wonderful size. What year is it?