***What Are You Smoking, January 2023?***

[reloader]

Mixture of the last of my Golden Ash and Best of the Rest English in an Emporer bulldog courtesy of @scloyd for getting me this pipe that is a wonder for English blends. Malbec is my drink.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Last pipe of the day Mycroft in a Radice Rind

 

[trouttimes]

Rainy nite so I am burning the nite oil, reading Tolkien again. Glass of Port with some Nitecap in a MM Cobbit.

 

[Architeuthis]

Presbyterian Mixture tonight

 

[Scottmi]

And the other HH Latakia flake folded and stuffed for #10 in the meer. If you had any doubt about Per Georg Jensen‘s talent, throw it aside. This blend is truly masterful and is proof positive of his absolute genius.

 

[JimInks]

Passing the quarter mark on this bowl of 2021 Watch City Simply Orange Virginia in a black sandblast medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY 4AB No. 182/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Watching one more Rathbone and Bruce Holmes movie: Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror.

 

[tnfan]

Escudo in a J.T. Cooke Poker.

 

[Lyon0oq]

Some 1792 Flake in a panel by BriarPip.es

 

[JimInks]

Did some snacking, and am not far from finishing this bowl of year 2001 VaPer Three Nuns in a 1938 straight black grain relief Dunhill OX Shell bulldog with a silver band repair with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[JimInks]

Almost a third of the way through this bowl of year 2016 Sutliff 507-C Slices in a sandblasted medium bend 1950s Reuben era Charatan Deluxe 11 billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Going to have PBJ (half Captain Black Grape and half Wilke Pipe Tobacco Peanut Butter) in an unbranded Austrian leather wrapped Meerschaum Billiard.

 

[JimInks]

Almost half way through this bowl of Wilke Peanut Butter and Chocolate in a light brown 1979 rusticated medium bend Italian Sir Jeffrey Dublin sitter with a flared top and yellow saddle stem. That'll do it for me today.

 

[isaac liu]

@isaac liu Happy Chinese New Year from England. How's the COVID situation in your part of the world now?
I notice that you're from Wuhan China where the pandemic started...

Thank you for your concern. China has lifted the control measures on COVID-19 since the beginning of December, and the first wave of infection peak half a month ago has passed. On Christmas Eve, I went to the concert hall to enjoy Lang Lang playing Bach's Goldberg Variations. Since there have been only tens of thousands of COVID-19 cases in China in the past three years, the situation after large-scale infection can only refer to the situation in other countries, especially Japan and South Korea (similar in gene and population density)

 

[Christos D. Tsatsaronis]

Peterson University Flake in a MM corn cob pipe this morning.
I will spend most of the day in our Caving Club's annual meeting (I do caving as a hobby). Once per year, all members gather together for procedures like approving last year's Commitee's actions, vote for new members for the coming year, discuss about expeditions, other matters etc... It will take many hours but it's a part of being a club's member... The rest is mostly fun!

I wish you a nice Sunday good people!

 

[DKpiper]

Starting my Sunday with Mac Baren Navy Flake in a Stanwell billard 88 silver.
Happy smoking to you all

 

[The Clay King]

Thank you for your concern. China has lifted the control measures on COVID-19 since the beginning of December, and the first wave of infection peak half a month ago has passed. On Christmas Eve, I went to the concert hall to enjoy Lang Lang playing Bach's Goldberg Variations. Since there have been only tens of thousands of COVID-19 cases in China in the past three years, the situation after large-scale infection can only refer to the situation in other countries, especially Japan and South Korea (similar in gene and population density)

@isaac liu Glad you're ok.

 

[The Clay King]

Got a volunteer day today, found a cigarette packet with 5 left this morning .
Catching the same bus as I got to Nottingham pipe show in September.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Going to have Wilke Pipe Tobacco Peanut Butter in a Missouri Meerschaum Eaton Corn Cob.

 

[isaac liu]

Happy New Year, my friend. Your wife is a gem. I had a lllf back in the seventies, but sold it, and the increase in value has prevented me from replacing it. I think I paid $150 back in 1972. Today I have a refurbished Fed 1d from 1940, one of the last made before the Wehrmacht forced the factory to move east. Enjoy!
That pipe ain't bad either!

Your kind words have been conveyed to my wife. Thank you, Sir.
Leica's value retention has always been surprising. I bought two Chrome plating 7 elements 35 f2 in 2008, both of them are full package in NM+ condition, spent me about 2600 dollars from a retired German photographer. Now they are at a premium. However, I also regret selling a set of xpan ii and 45mm lens for only 1700 dollars.
In the end, we can't really own anything, just keep it for the younger generation.
Immersed in this idea, I decided to smoke a bowl of Balkan Supreme in my reverse calabash meer.

 

[isaac liu]

@TheIronMonkey Do you think it would suit my clay pipes???
I like Virginia and Virginia / Cavendish blends in my clays.

fit as a pudding for a friar's mouth