***What Are You Smoking, November 2022?***

[TexJake]

Wessex Gold Virginia Flake in an Altinay. Just taken photo of the Altinay, very slow to color. Somewhere greater than 500 bowls smoked in this pipe. But it smokes my morning blend Virginia Flakes superbly so I'm not throwing it away.

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That does seem to be slow to color with that many bowls through it! But if it’s smoking well, then it’s all good, right? Just like with briar - “you can’t smoke grain,” I suppose with meers “you can’t smoke the color” … I’ve been watching for an Altinay meer to pick up, and every time I see you post yours it reminds me to keep looking. Haha! Thanks for posting the update, great to see.

 

[ravkesef]

Sutliff’s Heavy English in a W.O. Larsen Straight Grain Freehand

 

[tmcg81]

Enjoying a bowl of MacBaren HH Burley Flake in a Kaywoodie Silhouette billiard with some cold brew. Basking in the silence before I drive 8 hours with my wife to visit a friend of hers and her lovely, but extremely loud, children.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Hermes is one of the cheapest parcel delivery services. They pay only a few bucks to their drivers for each delivered package. No matter what time it takes, to get the work done in their own cars.

Another bad one is GLS. Years ago I just waited four weeks for a package of some value from the UK. It seemed to be vanished from this planet.

GLS told me it already had been delivered. After some phone calls, they found it in a distribution centre.

The driver wasn’t able to identify our house as Nr. 1 in a small street with only two houses. The other one was Nr. 10 at the opposite. So he couldn’t leave any information, he was there.

Clearly visible was my phone number on that package, the driver could have called, but gave a shit. I suppose he had to much packages left in the car for the rest of the day, to care about that disturbing one.

Smoking Perique-Cones in a Kiko, this early afternoon. Looking forward to a piece of British fruit cake, and the coffee grinder to brew a fresh one, Bohnenkaffee.

In the past I have encountered some frustrating situations with the aforementioned services as well, in Finland, their customer service is non-existent

 

[cigrmaster]

2012 Rotary Navy Cut in a Brian Ruthenberg Apple.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Some Good ole St Bruno RR in a BBB Perfect make shape 675 Long Billiard

 

[JimInks]

Almost half way through this bowl of year 2014 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. Watching Mad Dog Russo.

 

[UB 40]

“Kieler Förde” (lot o Latakia/ Orient/ Burley/ no Virginias) in a Genod Trecombe 60g with black tea, cane sugar, cream.

 

[UB 40]

OT:
I'm finally feeling back at some love.
Gonna puff some of the Virginia Latakia Bright. This might seriously become one of my standard smokes,
it's just that one leaf that was simply cut up but its taste is really far out.
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It’s a kind of home brewed “Squadron Leader” I think. Last time I got my hands on it I paid around 23 $ for the usual small tin.

 

[alaskanpiper]

WCC Simply Red in the Eclesias hyperblasted pot.

 

[Nevaditude]

Just a happy Pete Geek smoking my new PPN ( petersonpipenotes.org ) pipe with a tasty bowl of GLP's Virginia Cream while on a walk. A GREAT way to enjoy a break in the storm. be well...

 

[tnfan]

Dunbar in a Castello Collection Pot (55).

 

[VDL_Piper]

Wessex Gold Virginia Flake in an Altinay. Just taken photo of the Altinay, very slow to color. Somewhere greater than 500 bowls smoked in this pipe. But it smokes my morning blend Virginia Flakes superbly so I'm not throwing it away.

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I nearly pulled the trigger on a lovely Altinay the other day, carving a bit the same but a bent pipe and then I remembered yours. Wonder why some of these pipes just don’t colour at all, even the shank hasn’t, just another mystery from the pipe smoking world I guess.

smoking MB burley flake in a cob with coffee as I contemplate all things Meerschaum

 

[FurCoat]

GH Bob's CH Flake in a Mastro de Paja

 

[Ahi Ka]

Salty dogs in the delacour bros

 

[ThermionicScott]

Leftover half of a coin of 2019 Escudo from yesterday, fully rubbed out, in my mystery mini-briar. Had to go in to work earlier, so a small smoke today should be plenty.

 

[JimInks]

Did a set of walking reps, and smoked a 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. Just finished a tasty lunch.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

When I woke up this morning, I found my cat treated my pipe as a chewing toy. I don't know why she only likes to chew Tom eltang's bamboo poker rather than other pipes. After retrieving my pipe from the cat's mouth, I used it to smoke Balkan supreme.View attachment 180428

That’s an expensive chew toy.

 

[cigrmaster]

2006 Samuel Gawith Best Brown Flake in a Jack Howell Billiard.

 

[krizzose]

Sillem’s Musketeer in a Savinelli Canadian.