Cedar In Tubos

[Robusto]

I've been at my desk at work for nearly an hour doing some admin and some essay marking. It is yet another grey, rainy day in South-East Kent, and more colleagues are away with the flu. It's glum here.

For the whole time to keep my pecker up, I've been savouring in my nostrils and mind the beautiful smell of cedar and cigar that hits you when you breathe in the air from a freshly opened tubed Punch or Romeo y Julieta.

For somebody who - to be frank - is not a cigar hoover when he is on top form...

Somebody who enjoys a great one now and again, rather than every day...

...I think I'm really hooked.

Do you keep those tubes to sniff from time to time? I do.

[Robusto]

I just needed to cheer myself up by thinking of a tube sniffing. My imagination took me away from the pile of garbage I was having to mark.

[cohibaIV]

hahahahaha

Sorry Bryan.... I know what you mean but I have of yet to start sniffing tubes...

[Robusto]

Dale - I think I'm a pervert. But a nice one.
The smell in the tubes after the smoke has always turned me on.
It's great when the moment isn't right for a smoke.
You just reach for a deep sniff.

[Robusto]

I don't know why I'm being apologetic.
I'm always dipping my head in my humidor for a deep sniff when I walk past it.

[Scottish_Cuban]

I`m with you there Bryan, i love a good breathe in of my humidors and tubes. I have a few tubes from when i first got them, and they are slightly off but the other week did a sad thing haha, i put 2 cedar sleeves in my humidor, i was thinking i could use them as travel tubes for cigars out of my humidor. Tight i know but why waste money when you dont have to!. Just got a 10 Monte tubes from Switzerland and they still remind me of Christmas haha. Keep sniffing, sod wether its right or wrong!

[Robusto]

Nice one, bro!

I don't keep every tube. I suppose all the kitchen drawers would be full if I never threw them away. I estimate total tubes would be in the hundreds since Cigar Time kicked off for me.

I was given some Punch Petit Coronations over Christmas by a mate, and I've kept those tubes with their DELICIOUS smells. I always keep two or three empties around in my bureau for when I want a fix.

I'm really switched on by the smell of newly bought cigars. Just quality tobacco. It's an arousing bliss, and I feel a bit sorry for those who don't get it.

My guitarist mate who has started enjoying Havanas over cigarettes will now text me out of the blue when he's enjoying a Montecristo. It's when his girlfriend is on a late shift. He can smoke cigars indoors then without any moaning! By herfing, I've gradually taught him a few things about cigars and this text communication, to me, is a sign of good friendship. Of real cigar companionship and stogie brotherhood.

[Robusto]

Caption - How to take the pain out of marking...

[Scottish_Cuban]

Love it haha, only wish i could smoke while working, but i dont think house holders would be too pleased on choking on the smoke!.
The girlfriend has decided that apart from my Upmann No.2, i need an air purifier. Looks like JML has a decent one, but found one that is like an air conditioner. I would just leave my living room humidor open if it was up to me haha.
Spoke to a few mates last night while we enjoyed some Delamain in the games room, and they are the same!. They keep a few tubes around during the day so they can get there quick fix aswell.

[Robusto]

Know what? It's a metallic brotherhood of sorts! (I'm so glad I'm not alone!). In fact, here I am at my private office desk at work and I have SNUCK IN a Petit Coronation tube which is in my drawer ready for all the sniffings in the world! It is nestled neatly in an establishment which is so anti-smoking that the toilets speak out a name-and-shame to any kid who tries to light up a crafty fag! I'm bearing in mind what Drew suggested - probably correctly - in a recent thread that all tobacco and smoking stuff might be outlawed within 20 years. This beautifully pungent tube is surely tamer than the absinthe hidden in my stock cupboard lol...

I will take that work-tube out and savour it in bleak times!

Meanwhile it's Pay Day. My missus is off with her girlfriends for a meal at the Fisherman's Wharf tonight. I'll walk round the corner to pick up a King Prawn Jalfreezi. Then - I'm sure my sinuses are finally clear enouigh now - I shall have the house to myself, a nuts-jangling 5.1 horror like Cloverfield, or war epic... and a Partagas D4...

FINALLY, I think I can play Havanaman again!!!

Something quite absurd has happened in the town I teach in, and I would put money on having massively reduced classes today! Thank You, Lord!

"from disposable nappies to motorbikes" lol!

I'VE GOT WOOD...

[Robusto]

It's literally just come back to me that yesterday late afternoon, on my drive home from work, I overtook at least three large open-topped vans absolutely laden with badly-installed long planks. They seemed so dangerous I had to get by as soon as I could on the only bits of dual carriageway on our poxy single-track A roads around here.

I've just realised why that was!

[Scottish_Cuban]

And why was that Bryan?, it wasnt me before you say anything lol.

[Robusto]

Yup.
Suddenly log cabins come into mind!

[Scottish_Cuban]

Do you know what, i`ve been working and doing a few things and have to say the more i think about it the better it sounds. Put it past a few mates as a daft idea but we all came up with the same answer, daft as it may sound it could be a line i start! personlised log homes/challets all the way up to a proper sized log building to use as a decent sized smoking house. I`m going to look into it for now, thanks Bryan! dont worry your cut will be in the post if it comes off!!!!

[Robusto]

Smoke cabins!
They're cool!
I've got one of my own already...
But I'll take another!


Anyway...

Having it built...
And - my wife isn't reading this - putting it to its prime use...









Enjoying an Alec Baldwin Robusto and a Montecristo Edmundo down there.

The brilliant thing is that it never smells of dead cigar in the cabin the next day. It always smells of beautiful wood... so I get no moans.

I think every cigar smoker deserves a Havana Hideaway!

I can enjoy a Cuban smoke, write words, write tunes in absolute peace at the bottom of my garden. I like to catch up with Radio 4 over a good cigar and a strong mug of tea. I head down there after a stressful day before anyone else gets home and can enjoy a restorative solo herf. Bloody marvellous, it is! It's chillier in Winter, of course, but still swell. And it replaces the pub round the corner where the likes of us are now fucking banned.

One of the best things I've ever done to my house. No doubt about that, and worth every penny.

Apart from being a smoke house, it is used as an art/painting studio by my wife and art student son, and my younger son uses it for DJ work. Mixing. Decks, and so on.

It's all good, and I have a small separate hidden garden with table and chairs down there to smoke outdoors when the English climate allows it. In Summer, the neighbours will call over the garden wall and comment on the beautiful cigar aroma if they are outside. I love that! Better than living next door to smoke fascists, anyway!

SC - I'm sure you'll have customers amongst devoted stogie men! I would personally love a log cabin as a Havana Room!