I too have slowed down a lot for a few reasons. Not least of which is the absurd cost thanks to miserable grabbing tyrants. I tend to do it mostly when fishing in the summer, now.

I tend not to smoke this time of year because I don’t smoke indoors but I simply can’t help smoking cigarettes when I have a drink which is why I have gone back to snuff. Not only did I forget how much I enjoyed it but it’s really working for me. Especially this Otto Schmalzler. There is something about this stuff that gives me the same satisfaction as a dark-fired Kentucky blend and it’s keeping me off the fags when I’m having a few beers or a scotch. I’m bloody loving the stuff.

I really want to try more of these schmalzlers, especially rich dark fruity ones like this. However, with the news they are all vanishing I’m rather afraid to get a taste for them and I’m in no financial position to stockpile the stuff at the moment. They also seem to be out of stock everywhere anyway.

I’m rather sick of bureaucrats taking all my little pleasures away from me one by one, to be honest.