Closing in on the half way mark on this bowl of year 2014 Astley’s No. 109 Medium Flake in a straight black 1963 Dunhill LBS Shell 4S billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
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Took a couple months off from my pipes/tobacco just to prove to myself I could and for lent. Even though Easter isn’t quite here I’ve allowed myself a single bowl each day for the past few days. Today it’s Old Dominion.
Joe approves. He’s sporting a sock around his neck to protect a wound he suffered from battling either the neighborhood stray or possibly the opossum that’s been hanging around.
It’s been a helluva winter this year and it’s not over yet with a winter storm warning for tonight.
Joe approves. He’s sporting a sock around his neck to protect a wound he suffered from battling either the neighborhood stray or possibly the opossum that’s been hanging around.
It’s been a helluva winter this year and it’s not over yet with a winter storm warning for tonight.
Carolina Red Flake 2022 in a Dunhill. First time trying this blend, I can see what the fuss is about!
Good or bad fuss? Haha, I love it.
I friggin love it, maybe more then my 1995 Christmas Cheer!
Red and Black in a Peterson Rosslare 606
2014 McClelland Yenice Agonya in a Sabina Santos virgin cutty with mammoth inlay.
Good day all! Started with KBV Mr. Christian's Spacial Cuts #2 in a small Tilshead smooth Dublin with canted smooth rim and flattened shank with matching eighth-bent tapered stem size 3-4.
Just picked up my new Gambler at JJ Hat Center. What a great group of guys there. Smoking HH Pure Virginia in my…you know the pipe.
@PipeIT does this quality as a good Avatar?
@PipeIT does this quality as a good Avatar?
@Backwoods Briar I'm going to keep the Redcoat until at least after the Nottingham pipe meet; I wouldn't feel right without it! Wouldn't want to smoke a clay pipe except at re-enactment events if I didn't have a Redcoat!
Cromwell the meddler, Cromwell the busybody, Cromwell the puritanical Jack!@simong Oliver Cromwell was known to smoke a pipe!
Famous painting of King Charles Insulted by Cromwell's Soldiers:
One of them is blowing clay pipe smoke in his face...
Charles I Insulted by Cromwell's Soldiers - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Portrait of Oliver Cromwell smoking a clay pipe:
Some civil war re-enactors portray both sides although the Royalists were more objecting to tobacco smoking; remember King James I's "Counterblaste to Tobacco".
Oliver Cromwell - National Portrait Gallery
after Unknown artist line engraving 1653 or after © National Portrait Gallery, Londonwww.npg.org.uk
I could imagine Sealed Knot members saying the smoking ban was "like the Counterblaste to Tobacco all over again"...
Smashed up Hereford cathedral he did. Desicrated tombs and all sorts. Absolute shower!!
Clan smoker, I believe. Visited his lovely old house in Ely, near Cambridge. Garden was full of old tins of clan & broken clays. The old saying holds true now as it did then. Never trust a man who smokes clan!
@simong I've smoked Clan before; I think the Redcoats, Cavaliers and Roundheads would have been better putting their Clan in their guns instead of in their pipes
One of the re-enactors says you don't want a baccy that burns like gunpowder!
@simong
(this was before they became plastered with health warnings)
Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am half way through this bowl of year 2020 Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Natural 4AB No. 6/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. The rather chocolatey Lavazza Perfetto, neat, is my drink.
Enjoying some Granger in my first briar; a bent Cayuga. Just water for a drink today.
Your reanactor mate sounds like a sensible chap. St. Bruno smoker I shouldn't wonder.@simong I've smoked Clan before; I think the Redcoats, Cavaliers and Roundheads would have been better putting their Clan in their guns instead of in their pipes
One of the re-enactors says you don't want a baccy that burns like gunpowder!
I think you can get a different sort of clan in Europe. Remember seeing packets emblazoned with a Gold Tartan over in Spain. Never tried it though, obviously.
@simong I think St Bruno is well suited to clay pipes. Going to see how long I can make a Jamestown full of St Bruno RR last!
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