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

[JOHN72]

Good morning. A little relax, before lunch. 7 days of hard work. I can hardly smoke a pipe, practically smoking cigars. Little time to look at the forum, as I work all day until nightfall. Smoking now a Toscano Classico. Weekends at the hospital, keeping my father-in-law company. My old company lost services, so the new workers were laid off, and replaced by the older permanent workers. That was three months ago. So I have returned to my old profession as a truck driver. I wish you a happy Sunday, and may God bless and protect you always.

 

[The Clay King]

fit as a pudding for a friar's mouth

@isaac liu Or the Clay King !

 

[Lost Somnambulist]

Today is the Chinese New Year's Eve. Very happy to receive two gifts from my wife.
I hope everyone has a good luck in the Year of the Rabbit.

新年快乐! 恭喜发财!​

 

[Brewfan]

507c in a Peterson Dublin spigot while watching giant snowflakes fall.

 

[UncleRasta]

Good Sunday morning all. Up early for the footie. My Liverpool are struggling uncharacteristically recently. Enjoying watching Arsenal though. GLP Fillmore in an unfinished Savinelli 644 is my first smoke of the day.

 

[isaac liu]

新年快乐! 恭喜发财!​

Thank you for your lucky words. I hope everyone can be happy and rich as you said.
Just finished a bowl of OGS in my falcon, and 100ml of 56-degree liquor, now began to play Chinese calligraphy.
This is a Chinese character font from 1000 B.C. which means that the family will be very harmonious and even the cat is very strong. For everyone, especially those like me who need to clean up the cat litter every day.

 

[Ben.R.C]

Brown Clunee in a Caminetto, woke up late

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

Odeon in a virgin Gigi Liberty.

 

[trouttimes]

Chores done everyone is gone to church so it’s just me, my Steve Morisette and Northwoods. Oh, a hot cup of Kona coffee. This quiet time is very welcome in this world.

 

[Ben.R.C]

Bowl #2, immediately following bowl #1, it’s that kinda morning. Brown Clunee in a very sharp looking Castello. I’m a sucker for metal work

 

[The Clay King]

Got 6 bags of rubbish today & returned an abandoned shopping basket and trolley to the supermarkets on Chatsworth Road. A job well done for the Clay King ! I guess I'm the litter king as well

 

[sjohnston0311]

Mad Fiddler Flake in a Prohibition Speakeasy rhodesian.

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

Quick little bowl of Yorktown this morning. Smoking from a WDC bulldog

 

[John Brandt]

Time for a Sunday morning smoke broke out the Peterson Sherlock p-lip haven't smoked this in a
while loaded up with Wilke Smoky Sweet Chocolate love the smoky tasty at the start and the sweet
flavor of the chocolate on the end. Have a great Sunday.

 

[BDIC]

Pegasus in a Neerup with coffee.

 

[The Clay King]

With regard to the trees I helped to plant, I think "Liquid Amber" sounds like a beer and "Clay King " sounds like a pipe baccy...
I think "Liquid Amber" would be an amber ale with a good head (like Black Sheep ) and an ABV of about 4 to 4.5%, while "Clay King " would be a golden coloured Virginia / Cavendish pipe baccy. They both sound delicious and would go well together.
If I was blending pipe baccy my first blend would be a golden Virginia / Cavendish called "Clay King "; if I did a Christmas blend it would be called "Holy Holly" in commemoration of the Battle of Nantwich in the English Civil War. All my tobacco blends would be made to suit clay pipes. Unfortunately Chaukisch has disappeared from the forum; he said he was making me a special "Clay King " clay pipe blend with mead soaked Gold Lemon Virginia and Sweet Black Cavendish with a honey, lemon and mead flavour. It sounds delicious ; I guess I'll never get to try his special "Clay King" clay pipe blend now...

 

[BCF]

PS Luxury Twist Flake in an estate Jean Lacroix panel. Changing the oil in the missus' Toyota, listening to the Dead's Without a Net cassette, one of the handful of surviving tapes I still have.

 

[The Clay King]

Pegasus in a Neerup with coffee.
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@BDIC I enjoyed the Pegasus in my clay pipes. I like the C&D blends as they're reasonably priced on Smokingpipes and they have a good range.

 

[happy_lunter]

Sillem’s Red in Nording Rusticated Freehand.

 

[The Clay King]

PS Luxury Twist Flake in an estate Jean Lacroix panel. Changing the oil in the missus' Toyota, listening to the Dead's Without a Net cassette, one of the handful of surviving tapes I still have. View attachment 196547

@BCF I read online that cassette tapes and Walkmans are making a comeback; I used to have them but haven't seen any for years!
Dad's been clearing out the spare bedroom and he's found his old 80s Sinclair ZX81 (2k upgraded) and Spectrum (48k). He's contacting the new Derby Computer Museum about them and asking if they're of interest. We donated our vintage 1920s cooker to Chesterfield Museum some 20 years ago when it finally became electrically unsafe. They've had 3 cookers in the last 22 years since; nothing's made to last any more.
I've acquired a classic Nokia 3310 mobile phone in the last year and would like to keep it until the 2G sunset (by 2033)...