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Some say that the closest thing to heaven is a quiet corner and a good book – I might add and a pipe. I have just finished reading The Western Island by Robin Flower. The book relates Life on the Great Blasket Island off Ireland’s west coast in the 1930’s. Robin Flower was a professor of Gaelic...

Yesterday I tried Mac Baren’s Scottish Mixture for the first time. This is an incredibly mild tobacco to the point that it challenged and teased my senses in identifying a significant flavour. In my opinion, this overly mild tobacco, would be overwhelmed if smoked with a glass of whisky or...

Yesterday, I tried Three Nuns for the first time. Whle I and found it to be some what similar and little bit milder than St. Bruno Flake it was nevertheless, an enjoyable smoke. Today for the first time I am going try MacBarens Scottish Mixture in my Peterson. The large bent billiard has...

Just filled my Castello with 3 Nuns-a tobacco I have never smoked before. I am now going light up and go for a long stroll in the garden. This is going to be interesting, since this was favoured by C.S. Lewis. Here's hoping that I will like it as much as him.

Many thanks, I’ll try it.

After a heavy snow fall even the sound of distant traffic has vanished. In this quiet heavy, stillness, I can enjoy my Savinelli primed with Erinmore Flake with a large hot black coffee.

Many thanks for taking the time to write with your kind words and for endorsing my smoking choices. A Blessed Christmas to you & your family.

For a long afternoon smoke, I filled my large Ferndown with St. Bruno Flake. A nice medium strength, slightly aromatic tobacco and a regular favourite. The Ferndown pipe is English and hand made; being somewhat heavier with more substantial body than most – very high quality. After my second...

After breakfast I packed my Dunhill Bruyere with Capstan Navy Flake for a gentle, flavourful smoke and walked into the garden to inspect the new mole traps which I found empty. Right now, the score is 5 to 0 in the moles favour- completely outwitted. So it is back to the mole bombs. “Every...

Every once in a while, I like to try something different. This time it was MacBaren 7 Seas Royal Blend. On opening the tin, I was greeted with an overpowering smell of vanilla and plum pudding-ugh! Definitely not for me. Passing it to my son-in-law-he loved it. To him it was like catnip...

Enjoying my Mastro De Paja filled with St. Bruno Flake and a large black coffee while reading the news. With a totalitarian mindset that matches their suffocating Covid 19 mandates, New Zealand on Tuesday passed into law a plan to phase out tobacco smoking by imposing a lifetime ban on young...

This morning I sat smoking my Peterson, Sherlock Holmes Professor with a healthy plug of Erinmore Flake and a large mug of good black Arabica bean coffee. After lighting up, I thought back on my time growing up in Surrey, , where England Pub Culture was an integral part of British life with its...

A while ago, I filled my Savinelli with a bowl of Capstan Navy Flake and took a late afternoon walk in the garden. The gathering storm clouds and setting sun suddenly produced a momentary, surreal scene. I raced into the house for my camera and captured the scene just in time

While taking a long walk in the garden I packed my Castello with Erinmore Flake and blew a cloud of crowd-pleasing aroma. At this moment I enter a space that is relaxing, unhurried, calm and contemplative. I am sure this is an experience enjoyed by most pipe smokers – aren’t we lucky!

Sherlock Holmes “two pipe problem” is easily performed with this giant Ashton LX packed with St. Bruno Flake & large whiskey. My knotty problem that plagued me, took almost 3 hours to mentally work through - my Ashton stayed with me all the way.

Enjoyed this Dunhill with a bowl of Capstan Navy Original Cut (J.R.R. Tolkien's favourite) with a mug of strong coffee this morning -perfect!

Enjoying Erinmore Flake in a a large Ferndown, for a long, lazy afternoon smoke.