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In the great possum debacle, I found a tin I was gifted and had forgotten about. It's Watch City Cigar's, Miller's River Special. Does anyone have any tasting notes for it? From what I can see it looks like it was produced by McClellands as it has their printing on the bottom of the 2oz tin...

Got woken up at 4:30 or so this morning to a smallish creature moving about my room. I thought it was my cat hunting a moth and ignored it for a minute till I heard tobacco tins being moved. Then thunk, thunk, thunk. The sounds of tins hitting the floor. I turned the light on and saw a grey...

Got back from the docs recently with a diagnosis of spinal arthritis. Yay. Been having pins and needles and stabbing pains down my left arm for a while now and my doc sent me for an MRI. There's arthritis in my neck causing pinched nerves. Doc has put me on Lyrica but that's not doing...

Happy Towel Day one and all. Fans of Douglas Adams (author of Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy et al.) celebrate his life and works on the 25th of the 5th. I'm off to start reading The Long Dark Teatime of The Soul. Haven't read it in over a decade. Have fun people.

Woy Woy was a wonderful place when I was a kid, lovely beaches and parks to roam around on. Friendly people. We spent many a holiday there or at the next beach over when I was a kid. Sadly my kids missed this time as Woy Woy was well overpopulated by the time they were born and they're still...

Just picked up a new honey pot corn cob pipe from MM, am yet to smoke it but if it is like any of my other corn cobs, it'll do the job very well. The tobacconist said it was a limited edition, but that just may be that he's having trouble getting stock in to Australia.

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, With the general anxiety and dread that came with recent happenings, I've been drinking far too much whisky to get to sleep. I've now sorted the getting to sleep part, but am still drinking way too much booze at night. Does anyone have any suggestions for a good...

Is here for those interested, more chilled synth musings. https://longpig.bandcamp.com/album/probabilities Enjoy

Who do you reckon is an artist that has only gotten better with age? I can think of two off the top of my head, Bruce Springsteen and Neil Finn. Saw Bruce play the last couple of times he was in Australia, hands down the best performer I've ever seen with little ego involved in the...

Hi All, Is there any appetite amongst you to get back to our regular bombing runs? For the new folks, this was a monthly thing where some poor sod was singled out to get many packages of tobacco, tampers, pipes, etc. from BoB's bomb squadron and I certainly had great fun with it. Cheers, Tim

Had a weird arse dream last night, Missouri Meerschaum were trying to genetically engineer larger cobs. However they were too successful and they were so large that they ended up making the new cobs into football helmets. Anyone else got a good one?

We had a spot of fun after dinner the other night, as we were cleaning up, my son states that there is a large spider by the front door. We go to investigate and find one of these; https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/funnel-web-spiders-group/ Sorry to ruin your night buddy, when...

Hope you guys enjoy it as much as I did making it. https://longpig.bandcamp.com/album/possibilities

Freshly delivered this afternoon was a lovely chubby blasted billiard from Ron. It feels great in hand and for such a chunky pipe it's quite light in the weight department. Some pics, sorry about the fluff on the pipe, it's what happens when you own cats; I'm yet to spark it up, but...

I hope you have a great day of it, smoked some Stokkebye Luxury English out of a Ropp bent bulldog this afternoon accomanied by some Earl Grey tea and watching a Wedge Tailed Eagle soaring in the thermals. https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/wedge-tailed-eagle/ Lovely stuff...

Been watching alot of this Canadian bloke restoring old handtools lately. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCasG9kJWi1eVxM0QkyqKVJQ Hardly any talking with time lapse/sped up video. To me it's very relaxing. Hope you enjoy it.

Hi all, I've managed to put together another album over the holidays and have finally had it mastered. It is here if you wish to have a listen, Long Pig's Morning Glories, by Long Pig Cheers, Tim

Halfway through reading this one and am enjoying the article so much I thought I'd share it here. http://petersonpipenotes.org/2020/12/25/211-my-practice-time-in-the-firm-of-kp-detlef-seifferts-1960-production-history/ The rest of the blog is pretty interesting too. Cheers, Tim

Went for a walk at Blackheath out to Govett's Leap the other day, a beautiful part of the world even it was a bit drizzly. The wind was strong enough to blow a not insubstantial waterfall sideways. Of course, on a sunny day, the sand stone is multihued as the silica reflects the light...

G'day all, Does anyone have suggestions on how to prepare and smoke this plug? I'm used to plugs and other english tobaccos and like them fine as they switch from sweet to sour and back again with flavours across the spectrum. Spark Plug smells like your standard english in the tin but smokes...