Monthly Archives: March 2012

My tobacco plants remain small, but I’ve got plenty of them. Far too many for my own use. But I may have found new homes for the excess population. I got talking to a few smokers outside a pub, and … Continue reading →

H/T Wiel Maessen for this press release pdf from  HorecaClaim Europe: Investigations carried out by various prominent specialists in constitutional law throughout Europe indicate that the smoking ban for HoReCa in Europe can no longer stand. “This is good news,” indicates Frederick Matthaei, … Continue reading →

One of the current truths of modern political life in Britain (and it seems to be true almost everywhere else as well) is that the political class are All The Same. Regardless of who you vote for, you end up … Continue reading →

In one of Rose’s comments today, I learned that King James I, who wrote the Counterblaste against tobacco, was also the author of Daemonologie: Daemonologie (full name “Daemonologie, In Forme of a Dialogie, Diuided into three Bookes. By James Rx”) … Continue reading →

I seem to have an aversion to cults. I’ve never signed up to any of them. And I’ve come across quite a few. I think Transcendental Meditation (the thing the Beatles signed up for) was probably the first I noticed. … Continue reading →

I’ve decided to call them ‘pospers’. It’s a word that is a contraction of two other words, a bit like ‘blog’ is the shortening of ‘web log’, and ‘web’ is the contraction of ‘world wide web’, and ‘log’ is the … Continue reading →

I’ve carried on reading ‘The Plain Truth About Tobacco’. And still can’t find anything that says smoking causes lung cancer. Quite the opposite. Page 44: smoking is an influence which increases lung cancer risk Page 45: A fundament of this craziness … Continue reading →

I now have a small forest of little tobacco seedlings. The biggest are about half an inch high, and the smallest about a tenth of that. I’m keeping the seed tray covered with clingfilm, because some of the seeds still … Continue reading →