My folks use to roll their own, they also had the little machine that would roll it up.
I remember my mother telling me that when she was a little girl, during WW2, when tobacco was heavily rationed here, and my granddad was away fighting, one of her jobs, while my grandmother was engaged in war production in one of the Sheffield factories (and doing a part-time window-cleaning round to make ends meet), was to roll cigarettes for her mother with one of those machines. They more or less disappeared here after rationing came to an end, but I saw one when I was about 12, bought it and started rolling my own. I quickly dispensed with the machine for the most part, but once a week, I would roll up about 20 to smoke on my newspaper round, as my hands got so filthy with the ink, I couldn't roll a decent cigarette otherwise. Here's a vintage machine I found a few years ago
That looks great. I'm tempted to try it with my new ebony, and to call him Koll (coal)
Cool name Rachel
By one of life's many coincidences, during the late 1970's, myself and
@scrteened porch lived a few streets from each other in a small part of North West London. We went to the same cafes, pubs, and fish and chip shops (hence my earlier post). The pub was called 'The Elgin'. I was travelling in Europe 20-odd years ago, and got talking to an older English guy in a hotel bar. His mother ran The Elgin, and his name was Cole
Great viewing, lovely shots of outstanding knives everyone! The Thread never stops rollin'
Im getting braver and have my two babies in the edc - always scared of having such knives that I consider iconic treasures to be Patina'd and never come back- but then again they get better on the flip side- for someone like myself who collects and also carrys it can be at time a hard decision.
As silly as it sounds, its like a new car, once you get the first stone chip- you can almost relax a wee bit an start to enjoy it some more
So I am having these in my edc range but I think I will tend to them a wee bit more so than normal edc's...
Have a great day folks!
Great pic Duncan, hope you're doing well and have a good weekend with those two
Heading to the Bay Area
(boo) to visit my son
(yay).
Skolls first experience with traffic and over-crowded cities. Hope he survives.
Not The Bay!!!
Hope you and Skoll have a great visit with your son John
My folks rolled their own too but it wasn't tobacco.
That is good to know, thanks Jack.
I have read that D&R's 3 Sails is very close to it. I tried to go on their website but they require a scan/ picture of my drivers license... I don't really feel comfortable with that. I will go down to the local tobacco store and see what they have.
LOL!
Yeah, I wouldn't scan in my driver's license either!
I have had the same thing with UK knife sites
Cool pic my friend
That name's not already taken? Anyway, I think this knife is a boy.
His first taste of barbecue:
Lucky boy!
"Come on, Astros!" screams Linus the Lambsfoot.
View attachment 1219905 Sorry, I've been absent lately! Thought I'd share a couple of favorites! Good evening Guardians! Ben
Great to see you here Ben, and those two beauties
The Extraordinary Adventures of Linus the Lambsfoot
Here's Linus:
He's been with me about a week, and I have been taking him to work. I had to be in the office most of the week, but we did get out some at lunch time.
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Anyway, we've had a good week. And the Astros just won game 3, so we're happy.
This weekend, and next, I will be taking photos of my hometown: Corpus Christi; then I will send Linus on his way to Tennessee.
Magnificent post Vince
Thank you for showing Linus and the rest of us around, fantastic pics, and great content - AWESOME even!
Well done good sir
Morning Guardians, it's been raining hard for the past 24 hours here, been a really wet month, so I'm not going anywhere today!
Hope everyone has a great weekend
Carrying my stag Hartshead Barlow today