***What Are You Smoking, January 2024?***

[Cloozoe]

'Morning all. Out on the stoop out of the rain with some Sam's Flake and coffee

 

[The Clay King]

Earned GBP6.54 from online surveys this morning, going to get GBP3.80 from the books I sold & should get at least GBP15 cashback for my Tesco offers.

 

[Tom Sawtooth]

HU Tobacco - Director's Cut in a Radice and a Cup of Joe.

 

[troutface]

C&D Sunday Picnic, recently acquired from our own @hoosierpipeguy. Interesting blend, I'm really enjoying it. Smoking it in a Wiley Meteor with some coffee on the side.

 

[spearheadbill]

Getting ready a bowl of Lane Limited RR in my LHS Park Lane lovat.

 

[Ben.R.C]

Exclusive in an Eltang brandy

 

[judcole]

HH Burley Flake in an MM Washington.

 

[Speak Easy]

Briar Works Peach Cobbler, out of a new to me Normandy 600.

 

[EA/DC]

2017 Dunhill Nightcap in a nice and small older Altinay meer.


Starting to pick up some color. The 10th bowl from 'new' now since I got it.

 

[Birddog66]

Sou

@Birddog66 Had a fantastic day at the Battle of Nantwich; met a lot of the Sealed Knot re-enactors & got to try 2 helmets on! Met 2 Sealed Knot members I'd smoked a clay with when I met them before, at Bolsover Castle in 2019 & Nottingham Pipe Show in 2022. One of the Musketeers lit my clay pipe of 1792 Flake with his match cord. Gave one of the Sealed Knot a smoke of my long clay pipe loaded with 1792 Flake - I think he was putting the smoke on when I photographed him

like you had a great time Dan

 

[troutface]

Moving on to some 2012 Pease Chelsea Morning, also just acquired from @hoosierpipeguy. Smoking it in a Posella with still more coffee on the side.

 

[Birddog66]

I can tell you, I love the pipes you post here. You have beautiful examples of vintage American pipes.

Thank you

 

[FoggyMorning]

Old Dark Fired in a Peterson.

 

[PaulRVA]

C&D Exclusive in a Miscoi Canadian

 

[Birddog66]

I can tell you, I love the pipes you post here. You have beautiful examples of vintage American pipes.

Thank you

@Birddog66 Used your leather tobacco pouch in Nantwich yesterday; it was full when I set out & half full on the way home. Going to finish the 1792 Flake today.

I’m glad it’s come in handy for you mate and found a Royal personage to keep it safe.

 

[Birddog66]

A couple of photos of me at the Battle of Nantwich re-enactment yesterday. I met 2 people I'd had a clay pipe with; one at the Siege of Bolsover in 2019 & another at Nottingham Pipe Show in 2022. I was disappointed when I saw smoke coming from one of the re-enactors mouths only to find he was smoking a roll-up (there is evidence for smoking tobacco rolled in paper back then) but I really wanted a clay pipe photo...
One of the musketeers lit my clay with a length of match cord (he wasn't carrying gunpowder at the time)!

I’m not sure how true this is but I heard that Turkish soldiers during the Crimean War started rolling their tobacco in the paper from cannon fuses after their pipes were eventually broken during the campaign. It’s a nice story regardless.

 

[Birddog66]

It’s quite a pleasant day here for a change, had a bowl of GH Dark Shag in the 1912 Army mount Civic while walking WeeBay and am now finishing off some Steamworks in a Astley’s billiard that I started with my morning coffee. I’m moving on to GH Dark Plug now in the tiny Kaywoodie Drinkless.

 

[Lost Somnambulist]

Spent my rainy yesterday finishing up the refresh on this Talamona Marco Polo with a horn shank extension. About to take it for a test drive with some Arango Balkan Supreme and a nice cup of black coffee.

 

[lordnantwich]

GL Pease Quiet Nights by the fire in a Scottish clay pipe

 

[Ben.R.C]

Exclusive in this group 2 Mandela facet Bulldog with horn, then shipping off some trades toward a blasted Doctor’s egg and hopefully a 40th anniversary Kurt Balleby. The Balleby may be too much of a stretch, but it’s one of a kind. I hope he makes it to his 50th.