Ha ha, I thought you might like that one! CheersSimply great pipe!!!!!
My biggest problem ( years ago) with stopping cigarettes was...I kept buying them. Once I stopped buying them it was much easier to stop smoking them. If I had no cigarettes, I smoked my pipe.Finding my love for pipe smoking after a long cigarette-filled hiatus. Smoked a large bowl of 3+ year old HU Khoisaan with my morning coffee (black) and was amazed by how complex and enjoyable it was. One of these bowls where you don't want it to end!
Let's hope this is the time I finally escape cigarettes, every time I stop (won't say quit yet until I've been off the cigs for at least a year...) I always think "What a STUPID way to consume tobacco".
@MisterBadger I think it's a fitting baccy for the King's Clay. Photo from last January; @Speak Easy says he isn't surprised I got through nearly a full pouch1792? Pah! Fie upon these newfangled modern aromaticks! Didst fight with my lord Byron, or with the Rebells?
Seriously - my 17thC disparagement apart - My curiosity about 1792 has been piqued to the extent that I have actually ordered a small sample I am wondering whether the tonquin topping is the 'French beans' to which Ben Jonson refers admiringly in my signature. I grow what are now called French beans (haricots), and they don't smell of anything you'd notice, whereas 'tonquin' is how 'tonka' would be spelled in French. I have a notion the flavouring may have been introduced to England from France in the late 16th/early 17thC. I may speculate further on the 'Tobacciana History' forum later...@MisterBadger I think it's a fitting baccy for the King's Clay. Photo from last January; @Speak Easy says he isn't surprised I got through nearly a full pouch
Congratulations to Mrs. BlueRidgeOld Joe Krantz inna cob. My wife got her first black powder whitetail kill, a nice 8 pointer.
@MisterBadger Yes it definitely suits the King's Clay and the Sealed Knot.Seriously - my 17thC disparagement apart - My curiosity about 1792 has been piqued to the extent that I have actually ordered a small sample I am wondering whether the tonquin topping is the 'French beans' to which Ben Jonson refers admiringly in my signature. I grow what are now called French beans (haricots), and they don't smell of anything you'd notice, whereas 'tonquin' is how 'tonka' would be spelled in French. I have a notion the flavouring may have been introduced to England from France in the late 16th/early 17thC. I may speculate further on the 'Tobacciana History' forum later...