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No matter is you are able to celebrate in person or in spirit, I hope you all have a wonderful Mardi Gras! (One of the few things I miss about living in New Orleans)

poet Malcolm Guite fires up a new artisan pipe, and does a short reading from 'Lord of the Rings'

Happy Mardi Gras! or Carnival, Pancake Tuesday, etc.

Thought I'd share this, from a well-known Scots poet

So, I get to campus this morning, ready to give my last final and hoping there weren't too many emails from students claiming 'special' circumstances. I walk into the ground floor of the three story building....and there is a 1/2 inch of water on the floor, water running down the walls, etc...

this seems to be the best place to place these now (one on Dunhill and one covering a few others) Old pipe shops of London Dunhill

I understand stores stocking non-perishable Thanksgiving and Christmas stuff as soon as November 1, not to mention things like stuffing mixes, etc. But to sell things like Egg Nogg (with an expiration date of just before Thanksgiving)? But what made me shake my head was a radio station that's...

-sigh- I really need to sit down and cull out things I am likely never to smoke, not to mention stop buying much, but still, two orders last month: 1) a 1/2 kilo bag of GH Dark Flake Unscented (I would have sworn I ordered Brown Flake Unscented but this is almost as good); 2) 1 each McConnell...

According to an AP story in my newsfeed, the Senate passed a bill which would make Daylight Saving Time permanent when it comes in next year. My first thought was along the lines of: these folks are mostly my age or older, and should remember when this was tried during the oil embargo of...

Despite all the troubles & problems, I hope you can all have a good day today, no matter if you celebrate Mardi Gras or not! "T" -- former New Orleanian/Krewe of Cork

For any interested in a look back at the OTC tobaccos (and some info on pipes as well) back in the 1940s and 50s, I have a short article discussing ads in Life magazine in the new (Feb/2022, vol 30) of The Pipe Collector.

2 part covid, 2 part shingles, and the flu shot today; I hope that's the last one for a while! :rolleyes:

Yes, I have more than enough, but when I saw Smoking Pipes had some G&H I could resist and ordered 4 oz of Coniston and 6 oz of Scotch Flake. If $ wasn't tight, I'd have ordered a lot more!

I first became aware of the character of Dr Thorndyke back in the 70s with a British import to PBS called 'The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes.' I'm reading/rereading the early Dr Thorndyke stories, and one of the short stories might be of interest to pipers. The author, R. Austin Freeman, was...

While I have read selected stories over the past few years (I often use 'The Sign of Four' when I teach a course on the Victorians for example), I don't think I've reread the entire canon since sometime in the '70s. So, using the excuse ... err, make that 'rationale' ... that I hope to mine...

If you are not on their notifications list, you might not be aware that Smoking Pipes for the moment has some GH blends back in stock (who know for how long). I ordered 12 ozs (Rum Flake, Scotch Flake, and Brown Flake scented and unscented). No Ennerdale or Grasmere, but they did have some...

Not much I can add to this toast:

...but the growing number of ads for funeral homes and cremation services I'm getting aren't putting me in a festive mood!:rolleyes:

Happy birthday! I hope it's a fun one for you. :cheers: "T"