In this day and age of ever increasing legislation into our private spaces I’m going to start this post with an imaginary situation… I’m writing in my study. I’m on my own and … more →
The Third Provincewrote 6 months ago: In this day and age of ever increasing legislation into our private spaces I’m going to start … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Apart from a couple of quick personal asides this ones about freedom and what it means when we loose … more →
wrote 1 year ago: and one of the things we did was go to visit Bridgnorth at the end of an old fashioned steam railway … more →
wrote 1 year ago: There’s a story that was under the ‘World Bulletin’ column of the Telegraph yester … more →
wrote 1 year ago: There is an article in today’s Telegraph about drinking and the cost that it makes on the NHS … more →
wrote 1 year ago: of products produced by British American Tobacco - which from my earlier post I’d request folk … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I write this post, as I smoke my pipe and drink coffee and sip a small gin – you may think it … more →
wrote 1 year ago: is how I feel when I’m within a pub. Now I used to feel quite at home in the dark, low ceiling … more →
wrote 1 year ago: than I, or you, may have expected. Take yesterday for example – I had planned to not only watc … more →
wrote 1 year ago: the over taxed smokers who are so ungracious as to still choose to smoke… The government agenc … more →
wrote 1 year ago: ‘It’s not that bad…’ so said the wife when we opened the door to our room in … more →
wrote 2 years ago: What have you done? What have you become? As part of the merry process of applying for jobs elsewher … more →
wrote 2 years ago: I’ll not be silent, I won’t stop what I’m doing, in short I will continue my day a … more →
wrote 2 years ago: This is a dogmatic statement that we all know. When spoken by a parent to a child it is accepted tha … more →
wrote 2 years ago: and they are starting the same way they came for smokers. The moves afoot are how they came for the … more →
wrote 2 years ago: to the tobacconist the other day, to Frederick Tranter’s in Oxford and got me a couple of tins … more →
wrote 2 years ago: and I found out how endangered good old traditional tobacconists have become… For instance the … more →
wrote 2 years ago: and I find it a great shame because the person I am at war with is a pipe smoker just like myself. I … more →