Pipe smoking and reading books

[@valentinesvlogs122]

Thank you for your pipe smoking videos, they have been a real pleasure, and inspired my Husband and I to start smoking pipes. 3 weeks in, there's no going back. Enjoying trying the diffrent blends, and my best Christmas present was a Brog no 14 Church warden pipe ! Absolutely living the life. Happy puffing Christmas

[@bobbieboothroyd8531]

If you like pipes and books you will enjoy watching Malcolm Guite's channel. You may already watch him but it's so relaxing just sitting their listening to him reading passages from books like Talken or the Narnia books while he puffs on his pipe. It's nice to get away from politics. To be honest I mostly watch You Tube these days and don't watch the News that much. My great Uncle Eric used to smoke a pipe he used to have the tabaco that came in a dark green bag with a gold eagle on the cover if I remember wright I don't know much about it but I'm sure you do. Have a peaceful Christmas and a happy new year

[@wvc5150]

Malcolm Guite is an English treasure in this American’s opinion. He is an absolute joy

[@VobesShow]

I do watch from from time to time. He is a fun character.

[@ianmorris5501]

Ah yes Malcolm, the wise one.😀

[@frankdutton9852]

Hello Richard, you describe, too a tee, the serenity of settling down, with a drink and a bowl of tobacco, into a comfortable arm chair, and relaxing with a book, listening to music, or enjoying conversation. I find it the best way to relax at the end of the day. I hope Julia and yourself enjoy this Christmas.

[@jonathanquinlivan6911]

Keep doing what you are doing, make no apologise, you have excellent taste in pipe shape your doing everything perfectly, enjoy the pipe smoking journey, merry Christmas and a happy new year to you and all who are dear to you

[@redsed1565]

On ya pops😮

[@JourneyofaSuperScrub]

I like your sweater, it looks like chainmail. Thanks for the video. Merry Christmas!

[@BenjaminGessel]

I gotta say, as an American music composer who loves England, the English, etc. quite dearly - OLD (pre 1960’s) England, etc., this is a GREAT channel. I’m not a pipe smoker, or any kind of smoker, but my great grandpa was (he had more German in him), and I very much love the Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Lloyd Alexander, etc. kinds of folks - I feel a deep kinship/kindred spirit kind of deal with these folks, plus the Brontë sisters, Charles Dickens, etc. Sure I am culturally conservative. But I am more especially drawn to high fantasy, mystery, historical/culturally deeper books, and more refined tastes in the arts in general. I love the English countryside, all the Tudor/split frame houses, all that stuff… Looking forward to more videos. The English countryside is the best. (Have never been there, but long to go there someday…)

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

you're an inspiration dude ☝️ ... never give up 🙏

[@gcaesar-e4s]

Great video, as always, thanks. I have always been a cigar smoker but, watching your videos, I think I will give a pipe a go.

[@garphykeks]

Merry Christmass to you too chuffer!🎅 I picked up on your loving the 'old ways' I do too and consider any books and articles to be roadmaps for the future that we HAVE to create😉

[@JackDanielsGrandIllusionist]

This was a fantastic find. Fellow pipe smoker and member of the YTPC your channel is brilliant.

[@DrMarkGlenn296]

Nice video, I tend to sip a latte or mocha latte when sitting with my pipe…. I have a tender mouth and need to sip when smoking to protect my mouth. Love your streamlined pipe designs, I tend to use a Rhodesian or bent bulldog, and reach for the darker cavendish and burly blends…. Thank you for making these videos, and have a Merry Christmas!

[@donmorrissey1453]

Great that you are doing videos more often. I really wish I had time to read, really miss it. Unfortunately life is way to busy now days

[@karis2241]

Merry Christmas to you and Julia! Books and pipes definitely go together. I am half-way through a H.P. Lovecraft collection. Mostly I drink tea with honey in it with my pipe. Honey helps a bit with tongue bite if it hits. 😅

[@mrfairycake4333]

Great video, I would love you to read one of these books to us and chat about it while smoking your pipe. How nice that would be...a bit like jackanory for old gits 😊

[@kathleentetreault8094]

Enjoy your videos. I do "get it". Merry Christmas to you and yours. Ron

[@seanmcgrath1326]

Sounds like great pipe smoking and book reading weather!

[@GeertPeeters-m8n]

It often needs simpel things , a pipe, a book, , a glas of red wine , some conversation with like minded ,that makes your day . Merry Christmas to you and your lovedones . P.s. I like listening to Estas Tonne while smokingh my pipe.

[@geoffsimmons1737]

Am loving your pipe videos! I'm a quite recent pipe convert as well. Books and pipes like Romeo and Juliet ❤

[@wvc5150]

Hi Richard, I’m currently reading “The Wine of Certitude, A Literary Biography of Ronald Knox”. He was an English Catholic convert priest from Anglicanism, part of the later end of the Oxford Movement. He was a wonderfully clear writer whom I enjoy very much. I’m not having a bowl at this moment but I have been really enjoying Cult Blood Red Moon as well as Seattle Pipe Club’s Plum Pudding in an Erin Go Bragh pipe, which I believe is a house brand pipe and tobacco of the Pipes and Cigars website here in the States. Cheers! Merry Christmas!

[@Wentz789]

I enjoyed listening to you. I'm a reader a student of scripture. Have a merry Christmas

[@chriskipperroberts]

I live in Dorset,on the south coast. We share opinions on the government regarding tobacco etc. I enjoy peterson navy rolls. A beautiful smoke. But I've cut down a lot on my pipe as im going through Chemotherapy treatment for Multiple Myeloma at present. Your videos are helping me get through my battle,so i thank you.😊👍🥰

[@cwhawes]

I love reading. I love books. I'm an author and publish myself. I'm an independent author/publisher. I'm not a city person either. The country is the best ever. I'm currently reading John Norman's Gor and Telnarian Histories series. Which are not politically correct! There's nothing like reading, especially old books. I'm with you on the intrusiveness of government.

[@cwhawes]

The pipe is a yachtsman/woodstock/zulu (3 names for one shape!) because of the bent stem.

[@juanjojackorion5938]

Es muy agradable leer fumando una pipa, con una taza caliente, un buen libro en las manos, una luz tenue, el crepitar de la chimenea....Uf el paraíso. Saludos desde España.

[@LukeEdwards-x8c]

Do we know if Samuel Gawith as a company is lobbying the government to say Pipe Smoking is very different to cigarette smoking and highlighting the wider industry that supports it, artisan pipe makers etc. The USA pipe industry and national clubs seem to be doing this lobbying very well 😊 totally get what you are saying - Merry Christmas 🎄

[@BookDustMedia]

Yes we love books we ready mostly fantasy at the moment

[@WMisanthropy]

Merry Christmas, Richard. And Merry Christmas to all who reads this. Try not to let the state of the world get you down too much. We will fix it, someway, somehow.

[@asharmstrong6730]

Currently reading Anthony Horowitz' Close to Death (2024), and I've started Lloyd Llewellyn Jones' Persians: The Age of the Great Kings. Holiday reading! I've an Anthony Trollope beckoning for the new year, one of the Barsetshire Chronicles.

[@OscarSanchez-s7x]

Merry Christmas

[@molex114]

Don't know how oldie worldy it is but i find after a day in the madness of the world outside that there is nothing nicer than after dinner pouring a whisky lighting the fire lighting my pipe and opening a book. Maybe escapism, maybe harking back to a simpler time either way its a great way to relax and find some peace. I hope you and everyone watching has a happy relaxing and peaceful christmas however you choose to spend it

[@LANCSKID]

Black Cavendish is not specifically a variety of tobacco leaf, but a flavouring process usually applied to Virginia or Burley tobaccos.

[@tonytohill7391]

So, to join in, albeit a little late, hand made pipe (my own!) Wilsons Enigma, smells a bit like dried blackberry's and a nice smoke, and on the reading list tonight is 'History of the Homeland' the story of the British Background, by Henry Hamilton. in 1947, it says inside the cover that it is No 4 of Primers for the age of plenty, written in a style I think you would appreciate, I've only just started reading it, though written for the day, seems very relevant somehow, merry Christmas to you both, looking forward to an interesting new year, (although it doesn't really start till March/April!!, depending on personal belief)

[@christastic100]

A lovely elegant pipe , very nice. As a child we always had hot chocolate made with coco and hot milk . I still do it that way as it is the best way in my opinion. nice with a spoon of honey if you like it sweet as I do . wishing you a Julia a very happy cosy Christmas time . 🎄🛷❄️☃️

[@Dave-tv3hn]

Happy holidays, friend.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

playing the pipes of peace 👉 the song, and the smoking ceremony..

[@SloopJohnBeeRockabilly]

I am currently reading The Satsuma Complex, by Bob Mortimer. Thoroughly enjoying it ❤

[@vincentwojdacki7211]

Hello! So, the books: Stendhal Rot und Schwarz, Mark Twain´s diary, Hemingway Fiesta,,, The Tobaccos: HU Soraya, Condor, the old St. Bruno, virginia honey dew. Greetings from Hamburg!

[@herriotpipes]

Haha. Thanks Richard. I will try and do some more regular videos. I rarely read these days, as I find myself nodding off as soon as I pick up a book. I do listen to the odd audiobook in the workshop…mostly fiction.

[@VobesShow]

I am thinking of writing a fiction book about a pipe marker - so may have to pick your brains. :)

[@herriotpipes]

@ oh that’s interesting. Yes of course. Perhaps we could set up a call. If you contact me through my website, I’ll give you my contact details 😁

[@TheGentlemanScholar]

Richard, you probably always have a lot on the go...but I would love to see a BookTube channel from you. It's a great way to sift through what spoke to you from between its pages...

[@VobesShow]

I was thinking of doing that. I may well have to do that next year.

[@TheGentlemanScholar]

@VobesShow Check out mine if you ever get bored. @TheScholarGentleman.

[@paulemmerson5955]

At the moment I'm mostly smoking my new Falcon and I'm reading The Wintringham Mystery by Anthony Berkeley.

[@anonet78]

Im having a bowl of American Cherry & Vanilla at mo Later im going have Petersons nightcap.

[@conservativejoe4025]

You must love to read James Herriott!

[@shaunwild8797]

I always drink hot chocolate whilst smoking my pipe.

[@caritup]

Black Cavendish, BCA, really perfect with hot chocolate

[@fullofhope2222]

can't beat a hot chocolate 🍵

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

i believe in miracles 🙏 ✨️ since you came along

[@lupinpooter7718]

Could you explain how ingesting nicotine gets rid of “toxins”?

[@RockTo11]

It doesn't. Nicotine is not a detoxifying agent, at all. It is a toxin, actually. But, I enjoy pipes and cigars. There is however no need for pseudo-science. The only benefits empirically proven are some improvements in some cognitive functions.

[@steadynumber1]

It may have been explained in one of Richard's interviews.

[@VobesShow]

There is a lot of misconceptions about nicotine.

[@BlakesPipes]

🎅

[@Cythuru]

Where do you cover the things you don't want to cover on this channel? Would like to hear it!

[@VobesShow]

@richardVobes on KZbin

[@Cythuru]

@VobesShow I had no idea you had another channel with a quarter million subs. Congrats! I have something to watch for the next few days.

[@Southern-man]

Ever try lighting your pipe with your left hand? Would you be able to see it better?

[@VobesShow]

Great thought!

[@robharrell-xd2pi]

First time watching and I too am into pipes and books and appreciate your style. My channel is Talks From The Chair Rob Harrell with a Christian bent

[@Gspitaletti]

I'm trying to write you but my comment keeping being cancelled. Any way i would like you to show my last video, kind of inspired on some of things you have said . Thank you for the video. Best

[@tobyncummins]

Richard, you post too much. Even when the thumbnail looks interesting I can’t be fluffed watching anymore.

[@steadynumber1]

Feel free to pick'n mix. 👍