Smoking..... [moved from the confessional]

I remember my dad used to smoke John Player Specials. I think. I was 9 when he died due to smoking/asthma. He did pipes and there was a phase when he rolled his own. But whilst people insert filters in their rolled cigarettes these days he certainly didn't in the 70s.


Certainly remember bought cigarettes without filters... not sure if the John Players had a filter or not.

Had a toy F1 car in the colours - presumably because of the cigarette buying. But then also remember Smurfs which was a promotion with fuel purchases. We had loads but then dad was a coach driver. Was it Elf?

Had to be National then. It was the late 70s.

Watching confirms it.

I don't smoke, but they seem incredibly popular. At work I'd say 60-70% of smokers have switched to them in the last year or so. None have gone back to tobacco, by all accounts its about 90% cheaper than smoking.

I see people puffing away on them in the car, it looks like the interior is on fire with the clouds of whatever it is.
It seems like a faff with the battery charging and the unknowns in the liquid, probably dog turds and bus tickets masked with crushed apricot seeds or such like.

Yeah! That's what I like about German they have a word for everything. It can mean slapped or punched. I always think of Russell Brand when I see the word.

No conscious decision just busy at work (I don't normally drink during the week anyway) combined with my daughter having taken up horse riding so needs taxi-ing around and just general "stuff" since we bought our own house is taking all my time up.

I'm starting to accumulate man toys now, bought a rotavator for the garden as an experiment with the little ones to show them where their food comes from.

No plans for a full blown "Good Life" experiment though. Keeping the cars and motorbikes, I'm not going all eco-mental.