Hobbies and past times,what do you do.....

[smokiejoe]

Hi its sunday evening and very wet and windy out side 2night down here in devon,so i thought i would do a new thread and see what you do in your spare time,,apart from going out and smoking cigars as i see monte has an endless supply of cigaros.lucky bugger,lol.so if you have any hobbies or past times you would like to share then lets hear about it.i have many hobbies as we keep horses and one of them is a very large clydedale,she is about 16,2 hands of pure horse flesh but a gentle giant in many ways,she is a one of a kind down here in the s west as she is the only one known to the s west as nearly all of them tend to be in scotland and midlands.I also as some of you know i restore old cars for a living of which i love,i have been doing this for many years on my own now and find it very satisfying to do as i can smoke cigars in my own enviroment and restore the cars all at the same time,brill eh.I also go out on local digs with some freinds of mine as we dig for old bottles which has been buried in the ground for years.sometimes your lucky and other times not so lucky but good fun all the same as the whole family can join in.i also love music as this has always played an inportant part of my life for a very long time,ive played in bands and been a dj in many of the clubs down here,but this is just a small taste of some of my hobies,would like to see what any of you lot come up with if you can spare the time to read this.go on and lets hear about you.:D

[rokkitsci]

Hi its sunday evening and very wet and windy out side 2night down here in devon,so i thought i would do a new thread and see what you do in your spare time.:D

I play Go.

http://www.usgo.org/resources/whatisgo.html

[Montesmoke]

I like to do a few weights when i have time down the gym. Also i set up tropical Aquariums for people, used to have a 5ftx2ftx2ft tank of Red bellied Piranahas (serrasalmus nattereri) had them for about 3 years from juvenile & they grew up to 6-7"inches great fish.
Still do abit of DJing from time to time (Hardcore, Trance, House, Techno) gets the hairs stand up on the back of my neck when crowd are lovin it!
Do up/restore old school & new school BMX bikes from scratch have done a few Haros, Redlines, GT's for people.
Also love smoking Cigars:)
Monte.

[Robusto]

I work in a fairly demanding school teaching French (my Degree subject), IT, Drama and Music. I'm a Head of Learning Community, which means I look after about 100 kids' every pastoral and academic need. I organise Work Experience placements for about 100 different kids a year - from nail bars to lawyers' firms - and have to go and visit them in situ. I run a couple of trips to France each year which are sometimes for fun, sometimes for study. I also lead an initiative in my school called Aimhigher which tries to reach out to kids who are able but who have no family history of Further Education. These kids might benefit from considering Post 16 and University education. I have to travel around Kent leading training courses in Peer Mentoring for Aimhigher.

Life is busy.

I'm on this site because I adore good cigars, but also because over the years I have found good cigars to be a wonderful and civilised way to relax completely. If having great sex is A+ for me and the best escape I can find, then a great Havana has to be an A- or B+.

I will write about my hobbies later.
One of them is writing. :)

[emeraldisle]

Hello folks,

Here in my area during the week, I am I would say fairly active. I tend to walk everywhere, so keeps the weight down. I also play badminton 3 times a week, and have just recently taken up golf. I would be very much a culture/current affairs type of individual. I like creative pursuits like say photography, art, creative writing etc. I also have a wide taste in music but classical would probably be my favourite style.

Gabriel

[Robusto]

Bryan Orwell
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Activities:
Playing music. Keyboards and singing. In my group EK1 and with lots of other folk.

Interests:
Comedy with a brain. Weirdo art. Weirdo artists. Travel. Languages. ICT. Dogs. Fine Havana cigars. Writing, arranging, recording and performing music. Singing. Writing prose. Writing lyrics. Writing nonsense. Watching news channels like an addict. Laughing with people. Joking.

Favorite Music:
Mostly piano/keys led. Bruce Hornsby. Elton John. Ray Charles. Stevie Wonder. Keith Jarrett. John Shuttleworth. Les Dawson. Donny Hathaway. Dr John. Howard Jones. Winifred Attwell. Jamie Callum. Steve Weingart. Jacques Loussier. Michel Berger. Aretha Franklin. Russ Conway. Billy Joel. Kate Bush. For starters.

Favorite TV Shows:
Chris Morris before all else. The Day Today, Brass Eye, Nathan Barley... Alan Partridge. Dame Edna Everage. Sir Les Patterson. Barry Humphries.

Favorite Movies:
Zombie ones. 28 Days Later. 28 Weeks Later. War ones. Sci-fi. Apocalyptic. Futuristic. Mamma Mia in a funny old way.

Favourite Books:
Preferred writers are Evelyn Waugh, Tom Wolfe, Gustave Flaubert, Stephen King. Favourite poet is Dylan Thomas.


Music wins in all this. I'll never release anything, and it has to sit with the day job. I wish I'd done it professionally years ago, but I do enjoy teaching it to young kids as well as gigging and writing on a basic Portastudio at home.

Highlights have been to spend an afternoon in Elton John's management offices in London as a thank you for organising and managing a gig with 40 local musicians which raised a tidy sum last year for EJ's AIDS Foundation. (I am a huge EJ fan, and picked up the piano because of him). Also next Summer I have been chosen from the most able local musicians as the project pianist for a significant rock show in Kent. I'm excited already.

I look after the website for the band and also publicity. We are based in East Kent but travel around the south of England to gig. If anyone needs a band for business functions, anniversaries, weddings or parties, please get in touch. :D

Also join up on Facebook if you wish. Deano and I have already linked.

Videos of my band EK1 (http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=ek1band)

EK1 website (http://www.ek1band.co.uk/)

Videos of my playing. (A bit of a joke, btw). (http://www.youtube.com/user/reallybrown)

Here are some things I've written:

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I know too many teachers who are dispirited and depressed in the UK. My antidote to the nonsense of my job is to be enthusiastic in my me-time, and I know I'm doing just fine. I refuse to go under. Instead I gig up to four nights a week.

And I will mix company with anyone.

That enthusiasm bumps over to interest in cigars.
When's the next London herf, Monte?!

Bryan

[Renefatdude]

I play music in 2 bands (Blues) I sing and play bluesharp.
Got dogs and cats.
Love to drink whisky and smoke cigars to really relax.

Rene

[Robusto]

Brother! :cool:

[Wildwood]

Hobbies and interests? Got lots of them...probably far too many and I end up having to rotate them all. I'm a bit sad about collecting things as well.

Here goes:

Sport: love cycling (doing and watching), sailing, and cricket. Less wild about football these days - used to be a Southampton fan where I was a student hundreds of years ago, so that says it all really. :o

Passions: classic cocktails (from 1920s/30s - no plastic umbrellas in my drinks, thankyou!); single malt scotch; cigars (though it's been a while, really getting back into them again now, thanks partly to you guys); screwball comedies - again from the 1930s (I'm just out of my natural time); World film - especially French cinema; a humourous American writer again from the 1930s called Thorne Smith; the fantasy works of Thomas Burnett Swann; the science fiction of Jack Vance.

Collections: (this is where you can all mock me a bit) Rupert Annuals; early Edwardian postcards; tea cards; jigsaw puzzles; tarot packs and many others

Other interests: reading (got an English degree and I am an academic librarian by profession); old sailing ships; old board games etc etc. Been doing quite a lot of family history stuff over the last 3 years...back to 1626 now...

Got 4 kids (2 grown up, and 2 under five), and another due in December/January, so actually don't get that much time for all the above, but that's what mostly fills my head when I'm not thinking lascivious thoughts about some French actress totty! :D

There - story of my life. WAKE UP NOW!!

Wildwood

[smokiejoe]

Hey wildwood im glad you mentioned about the books and postcards and the tea cards as these are making silly amounts of money now mate,back a few years ago i did a very stupid thing,i have a massive amount of 1920 upwards of tea and cigarette cards of which i found in an atic of this old house i bought,they were in full sets,,i also found an old gild gilted mirror up there too so dicided to give a local antique dealer a call,he came and gave us a fair price for the lot inc mirror,well about ?90,,didnt think anymore about it until last year when i were looking at collectables on ebay and had the biggest shock ever,those cards i had were worth shite loads,,?200 a set and more ,,i had over 150 sets,,,i was pig sick.:(still one of those things eh.

[Wildwood]

Aaaaargh! Smokiejoe - how could you???? Next time such a thing happens, all you have to do is drop me a line, and for a small consideration I'll take them off your hands!! At least you'll know they've gone to a good home! ;)

Happens a lot actually mate...wish I had all the original Rupert annuals I had as a kid...been trying to rebuild that collection for years, but need a new mortgage each time I buy one!

BTW - have you seen how much smoking memoribilia now costs?? I'm desperately trying NOT to start a new collection...perhaps just cigar stubs...what do you think?

Wildwood

[Gary]

I think my hobbies / past-times are a little more basic (for want of a better word) than most of the above. I enjoy a lot of sports (watching and participating), including football, rugby and golf.

For many years I collected football memorabillia (with regard to my local team), things like programes, tickets, photo's, badges, shirts, signed objects, posters, pictures etc etc, and like cigars it can be a very expensive hobby once you collect the "easy to get" stuff, I must of spent a right few thousand on it, but a least I've still got all the stuff and will probably get my money back at least should I ever decide to sell.

Other past-times include watching movies (favourite is Kelly's Hero's), especially going to the cinema, cigars, obviously, now collecting and beginning to age, shortly I plan to get a wine cooler and turn it into a humidor that will hold approximately 20 boxes, maybe more, also over the last couple of months I've been getting into wine and would like to/plan to try to learn more about it, the different growing regions in different countries, how to tell one wine from the other etc etc.

Apart from that I don't have a lot of time for much else what with work, beginning a part-time degree and home life.

PS - I also enjoy DIY and love tools and tinking with stuff :D

[smokiejoe]

Yeah all that advertising stuff is making a big comeback now,nearly all my olds bottles the americans always bought,now there into cigar memoribilia and advertising,the old enamal signs with caburys and tea or coco all that sort of stuff,trouble is finding the bloody stuff as it aint about so much now.I used to go to farm auctions and buy furniture and clocks ,books ,toys and enamal ware,but havent seem any auctions like that in ages.keep hold of any comic books,dan,beano,rupert,early enid blyton books as thes are becoming rare.

[Wildwood]

Yeah, didn't mention the old tool collection did I?

Ho hum! I'm hoping the drinking and smoking will get me before I start collecting toenail clippings from one-legged sailors, or something extremely rare like "nice things my mother-in-law has said about me". ;)

Take me now Lord...I'm ready!

Wildwood (sad b**t**d)

[smokiejoe]

Hey mate dont knock it,as all these collectable things mate are worth keeping.and worth big money...he he.

[smokiejoe]

Hey gary i tried golf once mate but was banned,my first time ever on the coarse and with my brother who is a member of crediton golf club,anyways there i were all ready to T off and bloodly golf club slips out of my hand and flies off over one of the bunkers and clobbers the chairman of the golf club right across the top of his bonce,cut the poor buggers head open and knocked his hat into the nettles,i was banned instantly.i didnt even get to play.bloody spoil sports.

[Robusto]

Smokiejoe - Looking at your initial thread on here, you seem to have a great life, mate!

[smokiejoe]

Hey robusto you got good tastes mate,,oh yeah i like the bit on the settee mate ,having a snooze,,im like that mate after a hectic day at work as i rarely stop for a break as there is too much to do.I just pop a cigar in my mouth and im happy as a pig in cow dung.

[smokiejoe]

You know mate my life has many stories to tell,but i wouldnt have changed it EVER.I had a really good child hood mate,i was one of eight in our family,,well they didnt have sky or colour tv,s then and there wasnt much else my parents could do but make lots of kids,lol.We lived in crediton on a small council estate but it was a decent one and everyone got on with each other,my mother was a small woman of about 4ft 8 and father was 6ft 5 and built like a small outhouse,lol.back in those days our house always seemd to be full of neighbours and the kettle on the gas stove was never cold.It was hard for all us kids as money was always an issue as my father used to like his going out and having a few,so me and my sisters always made a few bob down at the farm by bringing in hay,straw,apples or eggs so that mother could feed us,but we never went without as we done the best we could.but it was such an adventure going out and making money,we always had a smile on our faces.it was a good life.well to me anyway.kids nowadays dont know how lucky they are.

[Robusto]

My parents were insane. My Mum was an alcoholic through and through. My Dad was in the Army so we were always moving between military camps. My Dad put me in a military boarding school to escape wild scenes at home. I was stripping guns and firing at targets and being marched around a parade ground from the age of eleven. We were treated like Royal Marines.

I was a good boy. I got my exams and never got caught drinking and smoking at school. I kept that for holidays at home.

Boarding school tends to make people become either very conservative or very liberal. I'm one of the more liberal ones.

Because it got boring when we weren't out on night exercises in Sherman tanks, mates grabbed guitars and I got on the piano. We played kids' versions of Sympathy For The Devil, Talking Bout My Generation, Led Zep tunes, Elton John Funeral For A Friend.

I'm still at it, and it's fine.

I love the idea of smoking Havanas and restoring cars during the day.:D

I'd like to have the mind I have on my head.
And be a plumber rather than be a teacher.

[smokiejoe]

LOL.it keeps us outa trouble bry mate.i could write a book on what ive done and what ive seen and all the places ive been too in my life.ive met some famous and some not so but so far lifes been good to me.I think life is too short so you gotta take by the balls and go for it.

[Robusto]

Agree 100%, my man. :)

[smokiejoe]

I also like swimming and traveling,long walks ie the moors,when we were in turkey on our hols i met some guys who were into diving so as a pressie from my girlfreind, i did a weeks coarse this was in the afternoons as it seem to work out just right as my other half could go shopping,he he ,but i really enjoyed it as it was a new experience for me and at the end of the week i passed an exam and received a certificate,well chuffed,it was only for 50 metre depth and safety coarse but all the same it was fun,if you ever go to turkey you gotta do it peeps,it was brill.:D

[SmokinCohibas]

I like reading so I read a lot. Love ancient history, but read a lot of fiction too.
Also like to travel and would like to travel more...like everyone else probably.
I take long walks sometimes jogging when I can trying to keep my weight in control.
Do like to watch movies and Formula 1.
Trying to follow tennis tournaments -grand slams on tv - this is my girlfriends influence.

Cigars of course...but u already know that.

[smokiejoe]

Good tastes smokincohiba.i love history mate,i know its a bit sad but i just love (time team)with TONY ROBINSON mate,what a damm good program,ive emailded phil harding who is one of guys on there to see if i could go out on a dig with them,no reply yet but hey you never know.i also like to keep fit too as used to do heavy weights years ago and got a fair old size,never entered any shows didnt want to as didnt get to that stage and couldnt be assed either,i do like tennis as its a great game and will keep ya fit too.we got some really interesting peeps on here with some excellent tastes,keep um coming peeps.

[Robusto]

I used to play Number 8 in rugby teams but had a right old pile-up and hurt my back, so I stopped. I occasionally go swimming, but apart from that I don't do much exercise. On a still day, I'll walk on the clifftops above Dover with a good cigar, or along the seafront not far from my house. Once by chance I met another aficionado with a great cigar on the go, and we had a good chat about preferences, and so on. That was really cool!

So walking my dog, or walking alone. and enjoying a cigar at the same time are the most exercise I do!

[smokiejoe]

What a great walk mate on dover cliffs,amazing views,im not too far from a beachas we have a place called dawlish warren an we go down there when its really windy and stormy and i pack a few cigars to keep me happy.great stuff mate.we used to have a dog but the little shit ate my bloody joint of lamb and pork chops.it was a bugger for eating things,ie the hoover flex,er in doors,s slippers,kids socks,and the mail..oh yes and my joint of lamb,and pork chops,little bugger was lying on its side when we came home as it couldnt get up cos it was so full.grrrrrrrrrrrr.

[Robusto]

Great dog stories, Smokie! Hehehe...

Are you in Devon? That part of the country is beautiful for holidays. We've had some superb camping holidays in the west country!

Above Dover Docks is fantastic for photography.

[smokiejoe]

Yeah mate 10mins away from the coast,small village called exminster.we have some lovely coastline down here,we go over to lyme bay,,ie lyme Regis to go fossel hunting,not found the mother load yet but kids like the idea they might just get lucky and if they are good they might get one of those big ice creams with all the trimmings,we have found loads of fools gold rocks,and small fossels,those curly things,lol, and fish teeth.if your ever down here mate with your family you can always look us up mate.

[Robusto]

We usually stay around Croyde on the North Devon coast. Great place. Great surf. Haven't been for a few years now. http://www.everythingexmoor.org.uk/images/Croyde.jpg

[Wildwood]

Hi Robusto, Smokiejoe,

We have lots in common...I've also got a dog and live near beaches! :) In my case the dog is a Springer Spaniel...maddest dog I ever had. And the smelliest. Why go around something disgusting when you can go through it? She's only 3yrs old, and mad as a box of frogs. We bought her when we just had the one kid under 5, and now we have another we find it really difficult getting the time to walk her enough. She'll also eat anything/everything...I have to walk her early (about 6a.m.) across the fields before I do my 50mile commute to Edinburgh - and believe me, it's no fun in the pouring rain and dark, trying to wrestle a decomposing crow from her mouth! They never mention that in Country Life, do they? ;)

My local beaches are a long way from Devon/Dover! I've got at least 4 really nice beaches about 10-20 minutes drive away...places like Coldingham, Spittal, Scremerston and Goswick. Goswick is great...you walk along a huge deserted beach with Holy Island (Lindisfarne) and Bamburgh Castle in view...fantastic! Funny - I've never smoked a cigar on the beaches there...but now you've put the idea in my head.... :D

Take care lads,

Wildwood

[smokiejoe]

Croyde bay is lovely mate,good surf mate if your into that,fishing isnt bad either,caught some big cod and flounder from there.

[Robusto]

We should start a Stogie Men's Dog Club on here!

I love labradors and spaniels.

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h304/elton1984/bryanandmax.jpg?t=1221058461

[smokiejoe]

LOL,labradors are nice we had two dogs one was a springer and other was a red setter,we had to get rid of the red setter because he was so camp,he had a thing for the springers backside,he wouldnt stop trying to ride him,so had to go as it was starting to be a joke as we couldnt stop him, and everytime the setter came near him the springer would try and weld his ass to the floor.i dunno dogs eh,,of coarse it was the springer who ate my lamb joint and pork chops by the way.

[Montesmoke]

HaHa, I had cavalier cocker spaniel when i was a kid, great dogs, I have a cross between a Husky & German shepard now very powerful dog, great temprament, great dog!

[Wildwood]

Yeah, I can well believe it was a Springer! Don't quite know how I can lose my temper so much with her, and yet still think the world of her...several times my wife has suggested that she should go (the dog not the wife!) but I couldn't do that. The wife, maybe! :D

She is fascinated by cigar smoke, of course...maybe that's why! Pretty good company when I light up on the patio...:) Plus, I can't smell her when I light up, which is when she is at her best...;)

Wildwood

[smokiejoe]

LOL,LOL.HA HA bloody dogs,hahhhahahahhaha.:D:D

[Robusto]

'Best In Show' with Havanas on the go! :)

[Wildwood]

Thought it was only Beagles that smoked...;)

Sorry, I'll get my coat....

Wildwood

[cohibaIV]

LOL,labradors are nice we had two dogs one was a springer and other was a red setter,we had to get rid of the red setter because he was so camp,he had a thing for the springers backside,he wouldnt stop trying to ride him,so had to go as it was starting to be a joke as we couldnt stop him, and everytime the setter came near him the springer would try and weld his ass to the floor.i dunno dogs eh,,of coarse it was the springer who ate my lamb joint and pork chops by the way.

:eek::eek::eek::eek:

[smokiejoe]

I gotta tell ya i think pets can be funny,anyone else has any pet stories as i havent come across a gay dog before.:eek:

[Wildwood]

Hi Smokiejoe,

Long story...apols in advance...and I'm still not sure whether it's funny or not...but here goes:

About 12/13 years ago, when my youngest daughter was about 10, she and a friend went for a walk with our black lab-type mongrel called Phoebe. They went to Arthur's Seat in Holyrood Park in Edinburgh, not far from where we lived at the time. If you know the park, it has some big hills and cliffs in it. Anyway, they took a path that some clever dick had removed the "No entrance" sign from...and it led them across the top of a very crumbly set of cliffs. My daughters friend lost a shoe down the cliff (how, I don't know!), and went to get it..and got stuck. My daughter went down to help her and got stuck herself. They screamed and shouted and a guy heard, clambered up to them and made sure they didn't fall off...but couldn't actually get them down.

First I heard of it was a phone call from the Park police (it has it's own force!). I ran up to the park in a panic, only to see a huge crowd, 2 fire engines and a fire tender, 3 police cars and a Mountain Rescue van. I almost s*at myself!

The mountain rescue guys were in the process of getting them down. When my daughter was rescued, and safe and sound, one of the Rescue guys came up to me and asked me if it was my dog. I said yes, not knowing what to expect. "You got a really good dog there" he said. Apparently, the dog never left the girls at all, and went down to where they were and stayed right by them. The guy then said the only problem was that they had to cut away a lot of gorse and other bushes to get to where the girls were stuck...and every time they threw the sticks away, Phoebe would go and retrieve them and bring them back, wagging her tail!! A great game for her, but not really what you want when you are trying to rescue two very upset and in danger kids!

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry! Still don't really...kids and dogs, a lethal combo, probably shortened my life expectancy by some years!

Wildwood

[smokiejoe]

LOL.i find dogs can be amazing things or they can be totol shites.i spose i just get landed with duff pets,rotten luck eh.:rolleyes:

[Montesmoke]

Yea you cant beat a dog, they will look out for you when needed, great companions too!:)

[rokkitsci]

Yea you cant beat a dog, they will look out for you when needed, great companions too!:)

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
- Groucho Marx

[smokiejoe]

lol.nice one rockit man,lol.:cool:

[smokiejoe]

I used to do a lot of sea fishing many years ago,we go miles across the country looking and trying hot spots as told in magazines.My all time favourite used to be chessil beach in the dorset area,we had some cracking cod in the winter months and used to fish fishing contests which used to be there on a regular basis.Sometimes lucky and sometimes not,i had some looks though as i would give it all i had when casting and how i never severed the line with my gigantic cigar hanging out of my mouth i would never know,im sure the chaps who were in the contest were taking bets on whether i would burn my line when i casted out as they all stared as i got up either to retreave the line or cast out ,lol.naaaaaaa not me as i had a slight grin on my face as i knew what they were thinking,lol.:D:D:D

[Willie1]

Sports:- Archery, American Pool and Darts.

Pastimes:- Playing Guitar or harmonica, writing the occasional song/poem and am now looking to start collecting and enjoying fine cigars :smoke:

Fave Music:- I enjoy listening to many various styles, but I enjoy playing the blues on guitar or harmonica.

TV Shows:- not that many, I enjoy watching the older shows like Only Fools & Horses, Robin Of Sherwood, Father Ted.

Fave Movies:- The Hustler, The Colour Of Money, The Police Academy movies, The Sting, Flatliners, Field Of Dreams, The Cincinnati Kid and Stand By Me.

Willie

[Robusto]

Willie

Are you in a band? Or have you ever been?...

[Willie1]

Unfortunately not buddy :)

I'd been contemplating on joining a band a few times before, but there aren't too many (If any) bands that play any amount of delta blues, since most of the guitar playing I do is with a slide :)

Willie

[Robusto]

Sounds cool!

[Willie1]

Thanks mate :)

What style of music do you play in your band? :)

Willie

[smokiejoe]

Think the slide sounds brill mate.We have a few memebers in the forum who are in a band or used to be in one,nice one mate .:rock:

[smokiejoe]

Think the slide sounds brill mate.We have a few memebers in the forum who are in a band or used to be in one,nice one mate.:rock:

[smokiejoe]

ELO ELO looks like ive posted twice,lol.sorry folks.

[Willie1]

Thanks Joe, I appreciate it mate :)

Alot of the guitar music I play is Ry Cooder based stuff, but I enjoy cranking the amp up and playing some Deep Purple and Queens songs also :rock:

Willie

[Robusto]

This
is
my band. (http://www.ek1band.co.uk/)
We play up to four nights a week regularly.

I also play keys once a month in this blues band. (http://www.blue-train.biz/)

[smokiejoe]

Deeeeeeeeeeep purple now were talkin and queen,good stuff,i used to Dj in a club and every thursday nite was rock nite,it was totaly packed with bikers,hippies and all long haired rock lovers from all over town.The good ole days.:rock:bry (ROBUSTO)plays in a band and he is well talented on the keyboard,he sings a little too,you should have a chat with him too as he has a well cool lifestyle.::smile:

[Willie1]

Hahaha, I used to have long hair as well :) lol, but even though the hair is shorter, the rock is still rolling :rock: :41:

Bry, you guys have got a damn good band going there, EK1 has definitely got a nice mellow and enjoyable sound and Blue Train sounds great too :)

It would be awesome to be able to jam with you guys someday :)

Keep up the very good music, you guys are a great band :)

Willie

[Robusto]

Thank you, Sir.
It can be very exciting, and it smoothes my mind out really nicely.

[Willie1]

Anytime buddy :)

I can see why you guys have become so successful and deservedly so :), the type os music you guys play is definitely the kind of music to enjoy kicking back in a nice comfy chair, with a good cigar just waiting to be smoked :smoke:

Willie

[Robusto]

I've got em all on cigars bar one, and that's the only non-smoker.
I feel it's my duty. :cowboyic9:

[Willie1]

I've got em all on cigars bar one, and that's the only non-smoker.
I feel it's my duty. :cowboyic9:

It sounds like you have done your duty well indeed :smoke:

Willie

[cohibaIV]

100 points if you get the Non-smoker on the cigars to matey!!!

[Willie1]

I second that :smoke: after all, a non-smoker can still enjoy a cigar, since a cigar is not meant to be inhaled :)

Willie

[Robusto]

It's like enrolling Mormons, this.

The number of mates who have given up cigarettes and who accept a cigar 'because that's not really smoking' is fantastic!