Old Smokey

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I just wrote a post that in fact I realised I'd already written last year, which just goes to show that I should remove some of my reference book item tags from time to time, and also serves to highlight the difficulty sometimes of finding a topic to write about when not much else seems to have have happened since the last post. As I've pointed out previously, this blog is both a self-imposed rod for my own back and a marker of my own inevitable mortality. However, there we are, it's a thing and it's on-going for the time being, despite all else. So, where do I go hence this even-ing? A bowl of tobacco and another glass of wine, methinks, then back to the fray.

Ah, there we are now: the tobacco just smoked is 'Dreams of Kadath', which is a plug tobacco comprised of Virginia, dark-fired Kentucky, Katerini, Burley and black Cavendish varieties: an interesting smoke to say the least. I've been working my way through some of these more outré blends, such as Black Frigate, and more recently 'Century Pirates Krumble Kake', but all the while returning to calmer waters with my old college standby of Erinmore Flake when needed. It seems that, as in everything else, variety is indeed the spice of life, but sometimes the old familiar is the comfortable place to be...

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