***What Are You Smoking, Nov. 2024?***

[dottlejockey]

Savinelli Brunello Flake in this Rad Davis with spalted tamarind.
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Striking Rad!

Mid-day bowl of Speakeasy in an IMP.

 

[atwaterville]

Oak Alley in a Rattray bent pot.

 

[PaulRVA]

Capstan Blue Flake in a J Mouton Short Liverpool and Diet Coke on the side.

 

[JimInks]

No rain yet, so I did a set of walking reps with the ever playful Tomato the Brave, and am close to finishing this bowl of year 2016 D&R Three Sails in an undated straight brush etched black Molina apple with a nickel band and a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[BlueRidge]

C&D Nutty Irishman in a new to me Peterson's System Premier 312 from the 1947-1949 era.

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nice 312!

 

[mtwaller]

C&D Burley Flake #4 in a Peterson Christmas ‘23 XL02

 

[Pip'n'Piper]

Chenet's Cake in a Jeppesen Ida

 

[Sobrbiker]

Salt treated and deep cleaned the new to me 313 and 701, the 701 seemed to have a floral-y ghost in the heel/shank.

Took a first spin this morning with the 701 with Ryback, and then ran some Dark Birdseye through it while running for hay. Seems the ghost is gone.

 

[Sandblast]

HU Director's Cut in my Bones Poker, morning coffee, and clucking/purring turkeys.
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How appropriate, with Thanksgiving coming up. I like the big one in the middle.

 

[Sandblast]

C&D Exclusive in a Suhr Dublin and Diet Coke on the side.
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You've posted this pic before ... and I've drooled before. I really like plateau tops, and the finishing on the inside bevel is just class (!!!).

 

[Sobrbiker]

Now trying out the new to me Pete 313. Used the heat gun to try to relax the vulcanite at the mount as it seems at the edge of too loose. Hopefully some smoking will snug her up.
Having Exclusive as it tends to smoke a little on the hot side to help marry the stem up.

 

[gord]

This is in England (just). 10 miles from the Welsh border (I am a fan of many things Scottish, mind, which may have caused the misapprehension. Anyhow, geographical distances on this little island of ours I know are piddling compared with Canadian ones). The church, believe it or not, was built in 1873, was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, and occupies part of a much older burial ground.

The remains of a far older church, that of the Priory of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Carmelite Friars), dating from 1349, lie beneath the turf slightly to the south and west of the present church. The graveyard - 3 acres of it - has about 5,000 burials we know about and is, of course, reputed to be haunted. There hasn't been a burial there for over 100 years (it's full, so there's a new cemetery just outside the town) but Ludlow's Parochial Church Council is still responsible for its upkeep and delegates that responsibility to The Friends of Saint Leonard's Churchyard, which I run.

One of my more interesting duties there is the occasional reburial of human remains dug up by the local badgers - dog walkers tend to find bones, freak out, and call the police, probably imagining some horrible act of desecration has been carried out in the hours of darkness. It's my job to liaise with the local clergy - they turn up with vestments and prayer book, I turn up with a spade - and we re-inter them with the proper rites, away from the badger-setts. Last year I found what I thought was a section of skull - it was lying around on some recent badger-excavation spoil, along with a thighbone, part of a pelvis and a rib or two - but it turned out to be part of an old jug I was able to date to the early 14thC and is now on my mantelpiece. I love the sense of continuity of this place.

Thank you so much for a most interesting and enlightening reply. I'm half English myself, but know relatively little about history - a big gap in my knowledge. Salut.

 

[Pappy Coon]

The Country Squire- Figgy Pudding in a Cristiano. Cleaning some estate pipes I received as a birthday gift.

 

[gord]

This is in England (just). 10 miles from the Welsh border (I am a fan of many things Scottish, mind, which may have caused the misapprehension. Anyhow, geographical distances on this little island of ours I know are piddling compared with Canadian ones). The church, believe it or not, was built in 1873, was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, and occupies part of a much older burial ground.

The remains of a far older church, that of the Priory of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Carmelite Friars), dating from 1349, lie beneath the turf slightly to the south and west of the present church. The graveyard - 3 acres of it - has about 5,000 burials we know about and is, of course, reputed to be haunted. There hasn't been a burial there for over 100 years (it's full, so there's a new cemetery just outside the town) but Ludlow's Parochial Church Council is still responsible for its upkeep and delegates that responsibility to The Friends of Saint Leonard's Churchyard, which I run.

One of my more interesting duties there is the occasional reburial of human remains dug up by the local badgers - dog walkers tend to find bones, freak out, and call the police, probably imagining some horrible act of desecration has been carried out in the hours of darkness. It's my job to liaise with the local clergy - they turn up with vestments and prayer book, I turn up with a spade - and we re-inter them with the proper rites, away from the badger-setts. Last year I found what I thought was a section of skull - it was lying around on some recent badger-excavation spoil, along with a thighbone, part of a pelvis and a rib or two - but it turned out to be part of an old jug I was able to date to the early 14thC and is now on my mantelpiece. I love the sense of continuity of this place.

Thank you so much for a most interesting and enlightening reply. I'm half English myself, but know relatively little about history, British, Polish, European, American or Canadian- a big gap in my knowledge and sometimes a source of flippancy. Salut.

 

[keith929]

C&D U.S.S Mason in a Peterson Deluxe System 01.

 

[renfield]

2013 Christmas Cheer in a Willmer AAA billiard.

 

[PaulRVA]

You've posted this pic before ... and I've drooled before. I really like plateau tops, and the finishing on the inside bevel is just class (!!!).

Thank you, I have a thing for them as well. This one came from Luca at Corti in Italy. He’s a great guy to find you and to pair you with a nice pipe.

 

[Scottmi]

2023 Folklore in the brebbia Noce billiard and water.

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and a delightful conversation with an old friend (fellow piper, too), and just finished smoking year 2020 C&D Virginia Flake in a straight medium brown 1922-1937 Irish Free State era Peterson 222 bullcap with a sterling silver band and a tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. Gold Star Hawaiian Kona Extra Fancy, neat, is my drink. I think Tomato the Brave has decided that my feet are his new pillow.

 

[Tonyjj80]

Maple Shadows