My articles and other posts about Tobacco & the Trade
Blends & Recipes
Gauntleys “House Blends”
Nottingham Blend
Christmas Spice 2021
Trent Mix
Bayou Blend
Merry Men/Rum & Honey (Mk 1)
Spiced Turk
Yataghan
Christmas Spice 2011
Deliverance
Crossroads Suggestions (Hand Rolling)
Tubing Reciepes
How To & Instructional Videos
How to :: Service Zippo
How to :: Imco “Super” Lighter
An Introduction to Pipe Smoking (Parts 1 2 3)
Tobacco Styles
Rough Guide to Aromatics
Twist Tobaccos
Snuff
How i Blend Pipe Tobaccos
Base Tobaccos
Cavendish (Part 1 2 3 4 5 6)
Burley (Part 1 2 3) includes Kentucky
Articles & Media
British Pipe Smoking Championships 2021 :: May 2021
Hand of our Packs Campaign :: May 2021
Budget 2021 :: April 2021
Forest & UK Party Conferences :: Sept 2011
Call to Arms (American Taxes) :: Sept 2011
How it’s Made (Dunhill Pipes & Zippos) :: June 2011
NWPipeSmokers Reviews of Bayou & Celtic Twilight :: June 2011
Nottingham Pipe Club on BBC Radio Nottingham :: April 2011
Talking Snuff (Radio Interview and snuff Information) :: October 2021
Display Ban Offers Indies £30m :: July 2021
UK C17th Black Market :: August 2021
Airbrushing History :: June 2021
UK Trade issues
State of Play (5th Feb 2021)
State of Play (3rd Apr 2011)
Sate of Play (1st Feb 2011)
State of Play (15th Nov 2021)
State of Play (15th Jun 2021)
Product News & Suggestions
Dunhill Elizabethan Mixture ReRelease 2021 :: April 2021
New Peterson Tobacco & Punch UK Regional :: June 2021
Peterson Pipe of the Year & Special Reserve Tobacco 2021 :: May 2021
New & Discontinued Lines Spring 2021 :: April 2021
New Zippos for 2021 :: Jan 2021
Maya Shag & Rolling Tobaccos :: Jan 2021
Silkcut Choice :: Dec 2011
Peterson System Stems :: Nov 2011
Che Shag Tobacco :: Nov 2011
Partagas Serie D No 5 :: Oct 2011
2011 – 2021 Zippo Choice Collection :: Oct 2011
AITS Trade Show (New Cigars, Tobaccos & more) :: Oct 2011
Partagas Serie E No 2 :: Sept 2011
Macanudo 1968 UK Launch, Delisted Lines & Peterson 2011 :: June 2011
New Herbal Cigarettes “Hamiltons” :: April 2011
New Habanos 2011 :: April 2011
New & Delisted products 2011 Budget :: April 2011
Regius Cigars :: April 2011
JPS Silver HRT:: April 2011
Dunhill Tobaccos Back in the UK :: August 2021
Rolling Tobaccos :: April 2021
M.Y.O. (Tubing) :: April 2021
Factory Visits
Héctor Luis Prieto Díaz (March 2021)
Pierre Morels Pipe Workshop (Oct 2011)
Wilsons of Sharrow Snuff Mill (Feb 2021)
Smoking Diaries
Cuba 2021
Day -1 & 0 – Prelude (2nd & 3rd March 2021)
Day 1 – A few too many drinks & Cigarettes (4th March 2021)
Day 2 – New & Old Havan (5th March 2021)
Day 3 - Plantations, Curing Barn, Escogidas & Despalill (6th March 2021)
IPSD 2021
Smoke 1 – No Name No2 (20th Feb 2021)
Smoke 2 – Early Morning Pancake (20th Feb 2021)
Saint Claude 2011
Day 0 – Prelude (19th October 2011)
Day 1 - The Flight & Le Boit (20th October 2011)
Day 2 - St Claude & Pierre Morel (21st October 2011)
Amsterdam 2011
Day 0 – Prelude (April 11th 2011)
Day 1 – Walking round in cirlces & Cigarettes (April 12th 2011)
Day 2 – De Olifant Factory (April 13th 2011)
Day 2 – Tinus Vinke Rolling a Pipe (Cigar)
Day 3 – More Tobaccos & a Pipe (April 14th 2011)
Dubai 2021
Day 1 & 2 (15th & 16th Sept 2021)
Day 3 (17th Sept 2021)
Day 4 (18th Sept 2021)
Day 5 (19th Sept 2021)
Day 7 (21st Sept 2021)
Day 8 (22nd Sept 2021)
Day 9 (23rd Sept 2021)
Day 10 (24th Sept 2021)
World No Smoking Day Diary 2021 :: June 2021
