Are you a stogie gob-walker?

[Robusto]

I know I like to sit still and enjoy the peace with my cigar. Enjoy the view. Maybe with a drink.

But I was out and about today with my energetic new dog walking along busy and quiet roads and in a very still park... and it came back to me (having had no dog for nearly four months) that...

I am a confirmed gob-walker with a cigar.

I have stated on here before that smoking a cigar releases my extrovert inclinations when I'm out and about, and parading a cigar between the lips when on a pedestrian crossing with my dog (for example) - or rummaging African textiles in a flea market with my wife - is part of that.

When I had to research Gustave Flaubert (C19 French novelist), I noticed that he always had a fat cigar on the go in existing pictures when out and about in Paris and Rouen. I think it rubbed off on me.

I guess these days it might be Jonathan Ross.

Just a word about the JL2. It is a superb cigar that rests for ages and never goes out. I have never had to re-light one, so that's a good gob-walker for me.

I find gob-walking is problematic in the final third because I start to breathe in the smoke up my nostrils and can come close to death.

Same thing when smoking and playing the piano. I can't do a Fats Domino.

Forgive me. I find pleasure in very stupid ways.

I'd still be interested to know...

Are you a stogie gob-walker?

[cj121]

I get a bit slobbery Bryan, but I can appreciate the pleasure principle, I just need more practice

[misterbulgarin]

Nope, hate not seeing my blume of smoke, walking and puffin isnt the same for me, if I AM walking, I have to stop to puff. Saying that though, ive never been 'out' while smoking so I cant say for sure. Ive only been to gardens and stationary places.

[daverave999]

Ive only been to gardens and stationary places.

Brilliant!


I much prefer sitting down with a cigar. It's for relaxing, and I don't intend to do that standing up.

[Pantomimehorse]

I was once a walker but now tend to sit and smoke since my dog can no longer manage more than a short round the block walk before shes knackered... my new solo herfing place as of last night is the back garden patio, I discovered that the wireless net works very well out there to my suprise so now I can sure and smoke with the internet radio streaming as I do, bliss

[cohibaIV]

Me and the missus go for walks at the weekend after a big dinner, and I ALWAYS have a nice cigar for the stroll

[Paulie]

Absolutely a gob-walker Robusto, in fact at the moment I would say almost all my cigars are enjoyed while walking. Specifically out with the dog round the local countryside.

I find I can get quite restless if I am just sitting with a cigar and will get up and start to walk about with it.

I enjoy walking in general although not as much in towns, I much prefer the countryside and I enjoy cigars so I get a double dose of enjoyment doing both at the same time. Plus it is nice to stop and chat with other dog walkers and them ask me about my cigar which happens quite often.

We are a social bunch really!

[PoohBore]

I like it all ways ! My favourite is sitting with a nice drink watching the world go by.

My new way at the moment is cutting the grass. An hour and half driving the mower. Last time it was a R & J Churchill. Heaven !

[Simon-JG-hr]

I've got to say that I'm not a 'stogie gob-walker'.

Cigars are now a passion of mine; walking and hiking always have been. I don't really want to combine the two, as I think that each one detracts, maybe in only a small way, from the other.

I like to take the time to sit in the garden, or by the water and just let time drift away and enjoy the view, nature and the relaxation. I had a nice conversation with a smoker today whilst in the seated position. He smokes irregularly now, due to the time a cigar takes, though still smokes every now and then. He'd noticed the trouble it had taken to light the Don Gabriel, and congratulated me when I'd eventually got it behaving, having used a multitude of methods... So we got chatting for a few minutes.

Whilst sat in my position today I decided that if I have to find the time to sit and relax with a cigar, hopefully I'll be able to keep my consumption down a bit...

I also decided that the following should be the motto for smoking a fat one:

"The furthest any man should walk with a cigar in action is to the drinks cabinet and back..."

[skyhigh]

i like sitting on my arse in the mx5 with the roof down when its sunny, parading a fat one to all who glance at the mid life crisis driving by. had people loving the cigar look with horn beeps, so maybe quietly converting afew to the cause. Also like a cheaper one on the go while i play golf.

[Robusto]

Quite a split there, guys.

I just need to make clear that I wouldn't scale Mam Tor with a fat one on the go. No - This is more of a smoke-wandering I indulge in. It's possibly linked to Sky's mid-life crisis drive-by.

I see a cigar as a wonderful prop and just choose to improvise in the streets. I've been photographed by tourists in Trafalgar Square because of posing with a big Cohiba outside the National Gallery.

Who was more stupid? The tourists or me?

I am not a larger than life character in real life, but this posing game in the streets or in the car at traffic lights can really make my day.

I've had my arm twisted to play parts in Victorian plays where I had to deliver two haughty lines. I remember in one of them it said in the script something like 'All the men light cigars' and I was one of only two who refused to do it! How bloody ironic is that? I'd kill to do that onstage these days in a morning coat and ruffles but the clever dicks have banned on-stage smoking so my chance has gone.

My refusal was in the lying period when "I wasn't a smoker".

I might have a crack at the ironing tomorrow with one on the go to see if I feel any better.

[Simon-JG-hr]

Now, you could take a stogie with you to celebrate at the top of Mam Tor... If you could actually light it at the top that is, what with wind (and likely rain...)

but the clever dicks have banned on-stage smoking so my chance has gone.

I believe that there is some wriggle room. I just happened to have been reading something recently that made reference to this. I believe it is still acceptable, provided it is crucial to character or plot development, and may only be done during a performance, not during rehearsals.

[Robusto]

Blimey, Simon. You mean someone with a little influence might have a balanced brain out there?!

[Simon-JG-hr]

It's hard to believe isn't it. Quickly get a cigar wielding part to play! Before someone spots the oversight...

[misterbulgarin]

id happily watch a full length documentary on bryan the robusto, and his adventure of heightening porkchops up and down the nation with his puro magic smoke