Hola from the East Midlands

[Cigar-aficionado]

Welcome to the forum Terry

[El Catador]

a Montecristo Petit Tubos awaits me and once I have the kitchen to myself, I will be lighting that up and seeing if it was worth the ?12.50 I paid for it

Ahhh . . I remember my first 'good one' (the 'enry don't count!).
Welcome aboard and enjoy.

[Boss Hog]

Welcome Moppy

[moppy]

Moppy actually refers to Master of Puppets, my favourite Metallica album...but in a shortened cuter form. I thought Master of Puppets is a bit too melodramatic for a forum username.

As for the hair, although I may be just 20, I have inherited (amongs other things) a receeding hairline from my grandfather. So I have maybe 10 years of hair left in me before it all goes tits up.

As for the cigar...it did not go as smoothly as I had wanted it to. I had a hell of a time getting the goddamn thing lighted properly. I did not realise until very late that if I jus lit the wrong end of the matchstick from the candle I could light the cigar immediately rather than wait for the sulphur to burn off.

I ended up having to relight the cigar 3 times because I was too afraid of puffing too often and burning the cigar. In the end I used a stopwatch to puff once every 45 seconds or so. Annoyingly, the inside of the cigar (the filler as you knowledgeable people may put it) was burning faster than the outer layer (wrapper I think?) so it kept going out, I asumme because the inside was getting suffocated with no oxygen?

Also, when trying to light the cigar (turning and puffing while holding it ABOVE - and not ON - the flame) the end of the cigar itself lit up! It caught freaking fire and I had to wave it frantically to put it out. This happened a couple of times and Im sure this must have burnt the cigar.

When everything was burning correctly, I enjoyed it. I could taste flavours that were different to just plain old smoke. It tasted like what I would assume my leather sofa would taste like if I peppered it. Draw as you put it was a little tight, so I pufed hard to get that smoke out. But when I did, there was lots of smoke and I managed to pull off thick, cloudy smoke rings.

Ive decided not to buy another cigar until I have a proper lighter to light it with. I cant do this matchstick business.

[nicwing]

Not a bad spermitage, really.

Turkey baster job!

[HabanoSy]

Hi Terry...

Welcome to the UKCF...

Cheers, HabanoSy

[Simon Bolivar]

Welcome Terry, glad to see you dipping your toe into the cigar lovers world. Just a word of warning, it might be less unhealthy but it can become even more expensive, still what price do you put on your own pleasure...uhm ?12.50 apparently -Enjoy!

[eggopp]

Welcome Moppy from one East midlander to another, Cigar smoking/herfing or whatever you want to call it becomes a fine art... i sometimes set fire to the end too, but normally when im trying to re light hilst driving and at the same time taking a few nasalhairs or eyebrow hairs at the same time... Lesson 1.. Dont try to relight whilst driving if your going to use a flame thrower like mine lol... Anywy, enjoy your stay, try a few cheaper non cubans to practice with.

[stephan]

Welcome brother!

[monkey66]

Hi and welcome

[moppy]

Thank you all for your warm welcomes, Ive been a member of several forums but this is the first time Ive seen a "Introduce Yourself" kind of thread that has actually got views nevermind replies!

And you all seem to know each other by name too, and I dont mean the username. Closeknit bunch of BOTL I see

[cj121]

"Knit one, pearl one" as my granny used to say. That keeps it nice looking, as well tight. I digress.

Welcome to UKCF moppy

[skyhigh]

welcome to the forum Moppy

[JoeyC]

Hello and welcome to the forum.