***What Are You Smoking, October 2023?***
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Breaking in a new Dr. Grabow Royalton with some Ennerdale Flake tonight. I had been wanting a dedicated Lakeland pipe for awhile now and this Royalton is going to be it! I'm quite surprised by how nice this pipe is, because it certainly doesn't feel like a $45 pipe. The briar is nice and thick, has a beautiful grain (if I would have known it was going to be this pretty I would have bought the smooth finished version!), and the acrylic stem feels every bit as high quality as the stems on any of my Savinellis. A lot of the Dr. Grabow lines may have gone down in quality in recent years, but the Royaltons are shockingly nice!
Been working, feeding ferals, and smoking. Right now, it's D&R Windsail in a smooth straight dark brown family era “Canadian” by Sasieni with a tapered black vulcanite stem.
Wow! I didn't know that.
I'm finishing up a bowl of GH Rum Flake in my wee Medico dublin. The bottom of the bowl is extra yummy.
Rattray's Buckingham in my Piersel sandblasted Dublin;
followed by a top up from some D&R Cockstrong in my David Huber sandblasted mini razor egg. Cock-a-doodle-woohoo!
Anyone living in my environs knows these are not current pictures because there's no white stuff in the background.
The forecast for Halloween is a -16c (3.2f) windchill. I almost feel sorry for the kids but it was the same shit when I was a kid so, I guess it builds character, or something. If my daughter doesn't last very long, that's a good thing anyway.
When did Halloween become a massive marketing scheme of Big Sugar anyway? Before I was born for sure. Was it in the 50s? Shouldn't it just be about striking terror into the hearts of innocent children, so that they learn to know Evil? Oh well. I guess we can still do that while we gorge ourselves on Oh Henry bars! Happy Halloween everyone!
followed by a top up from some D&R Cockstrong in my David Huber sandblasted mini razor egg. Cock-a-doodle-woohoo!
Anyone living in my environs knows these are not current pictures because there's no white stuff in the background.
The forecast for Halloween is a -16c (3.2f) windchill. I almost feel sorry for the kids but it was the same shit when I was a kid so, I guess it builds character, or something. If my daughter doesn't last very long, that's a good thing anyway.
When did Halloween become a massive marketing scheme of Big Sugar anyway? Before I was born for sure. Was it in the 50s? Shouldn't it just be about striking terror into the hearts of innocent children, so that they learn to know Evil? Oh well. I guess we can still do that while we gorge ourselves on Oh Henry bars! Happy Halloween everyone!
Read-eye Rubbed in an Altinay.
Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am passing the half way mark on this bowl of year 2013 Rotary Navy Cut in a post-1938 Pre-Republic Peterson Dublin straight smooth X155 bulldog with a sterling silver band and a tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. Nigel Bruce smoked this model in two Sherlock Holmes movies. Please consider asking Shane Ireland at Smoking Pipes and Peterson to bring the pipe back into production. Ice water and bergs is my drink. I may end the day with this smoke.
Popped a tin of Roper’s Roundels Vaper today,its a pretty decent Vaper
Having an especially lovely smoke this morning for whatever reason -- Haddo's in a Dunhill Shilling made long after Dunhills were still any good, according to experts, but I've always liked it.
Come on, experts? It's only up to you to decide if your pipe is good or not. And who cares what those snobs say, the only thing matters is that you like it. Happy smokes!
P.S.: I had a Dunhill (opera pipe), in excellent condition from 1958 - and it wasn't a good smoker at all. I smoked it probably 3 times, then I sold it. According to experts, it was from an age when Dunhills were good. I sold all my Dunhills, kept only one (from 2018), a County 3111, because it was the only good smoker out of 5.
Thank you
I need to post the whole set together really.
That pipe really suits my eye, Jim!
Of course. I would have written "experts" in scare quotes, but I'm already on thin ice with the moderati (well, one of them, anyway) so I'm being extra scrupulous not to be construed as "insulting" or having an "attitude", which is quite a challenge for a nasty SOB such as I.
@samuelgawith01 Do you think it would suit the King's Clay?Getting ready to smoke Gawith and Hogarth Kendal Dark in the Ashton Achievement DublinView attachment 257459
Smoking Samuel Gawith 1792 in a LaCroix Bulldog. 
I do.Dark Bird's Eye would do well also.
Just finished some Golden Extra with a pinch of StNick in the Civic Zulu, I’m about to walk WeeBay with Germain’s 1820 Flake in the 1912 Civic army mount. 
Happy Halloween folks.
Happy Halloween folks.
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