alandadp
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My name is Adam and I’m from Plymouth, England.
I spent twenty-two years in the Royal Navy before taking up a career in computing. I now break other peoples’ programs for a living (official title – Test Analyst).
I have smoked a pipe on and off (mostly on) for over thirty years but only really used Falcons all that time (cheap and almost indestructible, good attributes for a serviceman’s pipe).
I was going to introduce myself to BoB and start taking an active part in the forums over a year ago when I decided to branch out and buy some ‘real’ pipes and smoke something other than Condor Long Cut.
Unfortunately disaster struck, I got sinusitis again (I’d had it every year around Christmas for about six years) and this time it didn’t go away. I couldn’t taste tobacco properly and didn’t feel I could really contribute to discussions on tobacco or the smoking properties of pipes.
Despite the ‘best’ efforts of the Cathedral of Incompetence (my local hospital) I still suffer from a shitty taste in my mouth and a burning tongue but the symptoms have subsided to a point where I can taste tobacco again and feel I can contribute to the forums and move from being a read only ‘stalker’ to someone who might be able to contribute something.
During this past year I have still been able to smoke, albeit less frequently than I’d like, and have been building a collection of pipes ready for when I am finally free of this crappy lurgy. Being a bit OCD, my pipe collecting has become a ‘little’ obsessive and I have amassed an assortment of around 60 of the damn things! I will post pictures in the Photo Gallery when I’ve worked out how.
My mouth presently only tolerates certain tobaccos but I don’t know which ones until I’ve tried them so I have built up quite a store of blends in Kilner Jars waiting to see if I like them better sometime in the future. If not then members here will be offered free aged tobaccos!
Presently smoking Robert McConnell’s Scottish Cake, Rattrey’s Old Gowrie and Marlin Flake, MacBaran’s HH Acadian Perique and 7 Seas Regular, Torben Dansk Black Velvet, and, of course, Condor Long Cut.
Having read the forums for over a year, I already feel I know many of you so I will apologise in advance if any of my posts appear too familiar while you’re thinking ‘who the bloody hell is this bloke?’
I spent twenty-two years in the Royal Navy before taking up a career in computing. I now break other peoples’ programs for a living (official title – Test Analyst).
I have smoked a pipe on and off (mostly on) for over thirty years but only really used Falcons all that time (cheap and almost indestructible, good attributes for a serviceman’s pipe).
I was going to introduce myself to BoB and start taking an active part in the forums over a year ago when I decided to branch out and buy some ‘real’ pipes and smoke something other than Condor Long Cut.
Unfortunately disaster struck, I got sinusitis again (I’d had it every year around Christmas for about six years) and this time it didn’t go away. I couldn’t taste tobacco properly and didn’t feel I could really contribute to discussions on tobacco or the smoking properties of pipes.
Despite the ‘best’ efforts of the Cathedral of Incompetence (my local hospital) I still suffer from a shitty taste in my mouth and a burning tongue but the symptoms have subsided to a point where I can taste tobacco again and feel I can contribute to the forums and move from being a read only ‘stalker’ to someone who might be able to contribute something.
During this past year I have still been able to smoke, albeit less frequently than I’d like, and have been building a collection of pipes ready for when I am finally free of this crappy lurgy. Being a bit OCD, my pipe collecting has become a ‘little’ obsessive and I have amassed an assortment of around 60 of the damn things! I will post pictures in the Photo Gallery when I’ve worked out how.
My mouth presently only tolerates certain tobaccos but I don’t know which ones until I’ve tried them so I have built up quite a store of blends in Kilner Jars waiting to see if I like them better sometime in the future. If not then members here will be offered free aged tobaccos!
Presently smoking Robert McConnell’s Scottish Cake, Rattrey’s Old Gowrie and Marlin Flake, MacBaran’s HH Acadian Perique and 7 Seas Regular, Torben Dansk Black Velvet, and, of course, Condor Long Cut.
Having read the forums for over a year, I already feel I know many of you so I will apologise in advance if any of my posts appear too familiar while you’re thinking ‘who the bloody hell is this bloke?’
