Stavertongirl 1,723 Posted June 9, 2021 Report Share Posted June 9, 2021 Today, for some reason I have got a mega craving for a ciggie. Haven’t had a proper one for months and haven’t had a craving for a long while. My vape just isn’t hitting the spot at all today. Good job you can’t buy them singly (I can remember getting them from Jacks on staverton, they were Park Drive he used to split the packs of 5) or I might have been tempted. I did enjoy smoking (not very politically correct I know but then I never am) and the problem with vaping, for me, is that the vape pipe doesn’t feel like a cigarette at all. Yes I get the nicotine hit to feed my habit but it just isn’t the same somehow. Oh well will keep busy and probably raid the fridge as well, could be a chocolate day I think. Hopefully it will have passed by tomorrow. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,232 Posted June 9, 2021 Report Share Posted June 9, 2021 Treat yerself to some Old Hoborn chewing tobacca SG. But make sure you have yer spittoon ready! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,279 Posted June 9, 2021 Report Share Posted June 9, 2021 Ive been almost 3 years 'Fagless'' SG.........and still get the craving everyday 3 or 4 times..........sometimes pretend to smoke with one of the Wifes...not lit..flick it up into me gob give it a good suck and pretend to blow the smoke out.(which makes her laugh cos since my OP i cant blow)...while at the same time asking her ''If she comes here often and would you like a dance Duck'' Makes me feel better and lessens the craving....also for some reason watching 'Talking Pictures where they all smoke helps as well.........lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,237 Posted June 9, 2021 Report Share Posted June 9, 2021 I don’t see any snuff taking these days. There was an old chap in my local who used to take it and hand the box around. I could never bring myself to try as I’ve never indulged in tobacco products. He was the church organist and I saw him taking snuff during our wedding service many years ago. Not just that but eating a bar of chocolate and swigging from his hip flask. I took him a bottle of Scotch as a ‘thank you’. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,527 Posted June 9, 2021 Report Share Posted June 9, 2021 2 hours ago, benjamin1945 said: Makes me feel better and lessens the craving....also for some reason watching 'Talking Pictures where they all smoke helps as well.........lol In Talking Pictures, when they all smoke (all the time) they also drink all the time. Does watching the telly do anything for your alcohol intake ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,279 Posted June 9, 2021 Report Share Posted June 9, 2021 Strangely enough i dont miss Alcohol......loved a drink most nights....in my time ive had periods of drinking Beer..Whisky..Rum..Gin..Vodka...in fact most concoctions...keep saying i'll try a 'Baileys' one night...but not really fussed......... Now if i ever get back to Spain it could be a different story.............. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,232 Posted June 9, 2021 Report Share Posted June 9, 2021 Ben, have you considered trying Baileys with your daily coffee? It's a little bit like an Irish coffee (but cheaper). It's quite nice. Or try a Baileys over ice, that's lovely. As they say,"Don't knock it 'till you've tried it". I'll be interested in your opinion. Bottoms Up ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,279 Posted June 9, 2021 Report Share Posted June 9, 2021 BK I Love a Baileys and over the years have had it several ways...always nice with Coffee.....but only in the evening.... Have it with ''Ice'' in Spain...and usually say ''LO MISMA'' after.......... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,232 Posted June 9, 2021 Report Share Posted June 9, 2021 Sorry Ben, I misunderstood. I thought you meant that you'd yet to try a Baileys. I didn't realise you were an oficianado of the nectar. My apologies sir ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,460 Posted June 11, 2021 Report Share Posted June 11, 2021 Today has started well. I just read that an American politician L Gohmert (Texas republican) has come up with a solution to global warming. Hooray!! He has suggested, quite seriously, that the American Forestry Service or the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) change either the orbit of the Earth or the moon as it would "obviously have a profound effect on our climate". He's the same guy who swears he caught Covid because he wore a mask And we thought Trump was barking! 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,751 Posted June 11, 2021 Report Share Posted June 11, 2021 Does the US actually have an education system? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stavertongirl 1,723 Posted June 11, 2021 Report Share Posted June 11, 2021 I am pleased to say my ciggie craving has abated today finally. It has been a tough couple of days fighting the inclination “if I buy a pack and just have one ...“ rather like when I first went onto the vapey thingy. I was cutting the strength of the liquid down so perhaps this triggered it, have gone back to mixing 2 strengths together again and will take it from there a bit slower until I hopefully quit altogether. I was thinking about when I first started smoking in the 60’s, everyone seemed to smoke then or at least it seemed like it. I can remember Keith Richards on stage with the Stones smoking, it just seemed so “cool” at the time and a bit rebellious. Dread to think how much money I spent on them over the years but I did enjoy it. Just wish stopping was as easy as starting. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,460 Posted June 11, 2021 Report Share Posted June 11, 2021 I'm now two years smoke free, still have the occasional craving, and one product that really, instantly kills the craving is the spray from the chemist. It's not pleasant and is really horrible spayed directly into the throat but against the inside of the cheek it's tolerable. The problem is it doesn't last long before you're wall walking again and you're still ingesting nicotine into your system. The most effective I've found were the course of tablets on prescription, try you GP. Good luck SG... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,232 Posted June 11, 2021 Report Share Posted June 11, 2021 I got up to smoking 60 a day, (when I could afford it). Started smoking properly when I was 11yrs. Decided to stop about 1974ish. But that was the clue, I DECIDED to stop, not cut down. It wasn't easy at first but I'd made me mind up. No tablets, sprays and vapes hadn't been invented. Kept a couple in me pocket, just in case but was able to throw them away after a couple of months. Consider myself a smoker who doesn't touch fags. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,237 Posted June 11, 2021 Report Share Posted June 11, 2021 Could get your fingers chopped off! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,232 Posted June 11, 2021 Report Share Posted June 11, 2021 Lost me on that one Phil. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted June 11, 2021 Report Share Posted June 11, 2021 I quit the fags 7 years ago after a heart attack. Like BK said just quit full stop & now don't even think about smoking anymore. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nonnaB 4,909 Posted June 11, 2021 Report Share Posted June 11, 2021 My husband told my son, who was always complaining about him smoking, that he would stop when he became a grandfather. Came that day when the news came and he threw the pack away,which he'd just bought and hasn't touched one since. This was when my daughter in law became pregnant 18 yrs ago. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,237 Posted June 11, 2021 Report Share Posted June 11, 2021 2 hours ago, Beekay said: Lost me on that one Phil. You said ‘fan’ BK but now you’ve edited it to say ‘fags’. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,232 Posted June 11, 2021 Report Share Posted June 11, 2021 Thanks for clarifying for me Phil. It's only when you submit do you find your error. But this flaming tablet will insist on putting in what it thinks you meant to write. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,460 Posted June 11, 2021 Report Share Posted June 11, 2021 Not a lot different on my PC, the fingers take orders from the brain, totally ignore them and do exactly as they like... Missing words, misspelled words, hilarious punctuation etc. but I tell everyone my age and they just say ah bless him he tries... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,232 Posted June 11, 2021 Report Share Posted June 11, 2021 And now the end of my day. How's it been? OK earlier, but just had a message to say my favourite Aunt passed away peacefully this afternoon. She were 94. Never realised she were only 17 years older than me. As a kid, she always looked grown up to me. R.I.P. Ethel. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,751 Posted June 11, 2021 Report Share Posted June 11, 2021 Interesting day yesterday.. When I moved into this new build house in 1976, there was still a trench where the pavement/sidewalk should be. The builders simply filled it in temporarily for us to be able to access the drive and move in. A little while later they actually laid the pavement. Later still, it transpired that some genius had arranged for every house to have its 'streetside' water stop valve positioned on the pavement exactly where it would get driven over daily by vehicles accessing house drives. In my case, for some reason, the stop valve was not positioned in a proper chamber beneath a cover, but inside a few bricks piled up to form a rough 'box'. Of course...it wasn't long before that crumbled, but since I had no cause to inspect it.. I was unaware. Nine years later, when the rising main inside my integral garage 'popped off' ..naturally below the 'house side' stop valve.... it took me some considerable time to access the street side valve and shut off the water... Despite not being a plumber.. I soon worked out that whoever had attempted to fix a plastic 1" pipe, which had been terminated with a 45 degree cut, to a copper rising main...was on a hiding to nothing. Hence the catastrophic leak. I simply cut the end of the pipe correctly and using the original olive and fittings, put everything back together. That was 1985. At some point after.. the water company came along and fitted a proper chamber under the streetside stop valve, and repaired the dip in the pavement. Last year... during lockdown..I decided to fit an outside tap, plumbed directly off the rising main in the integral garage. Being forewarned and therefore forearmed, I made sure to clear the little streetside cover, make sure it was capable of being opened and check that the brass tap below was accessible and turnable. It was well that I did so, because during subsequent plumbing operations in the garage, the water main parted company again.. below the house side stop valve. I was able to shut off the water in seconds and then completely renew the internal stop valve and coupling. When I finally turned on the water at the street side valve I noticed that the chamber was filling with water. I assumed it was due to a leaky packing gland in the stop tap.. but decided to ignore it.. as I'd had enough of other people's plumbing cock ups. However... none of the above is important right now.... Last Tuesday we returned from lunch with friends, and noticed bright blue spray paint around our street side water stop valve. I wasn't much concerned. Yesterday.. two chaps turned up with a truck and a small digger type machine in tow. They parked across both mine and my neighbour's drives and started operations. Neighbour enquired as to how long they would be because he needed to go out in 10 minutes. They cheerfully agreed that they would move their vehicles whenever neighbour needed to move his car. I enquired similarly and they informed me that I would be able to move my car, but that once they had finished their work, Mrs Mull's car would be trapped on our drive, because they were only there to dig a hole and change the stop valve.. The pavement would be made good 'in a couple of days'...by another crew. Mrs Mull took the opportunity to move her car onto the street. I politely suggested to the workmen that it might have been a good idea for United Utilities to actually give me some form of warning of their intentions.. not least because I might well have been out when they arrived..with who knows what consequences.. The workmen agreed wholeheartedly and explained that United Utilities policy of not informing residents in advance, of inconvenience to which they were to be subjected...often resulted in them being subject to hostile reactions from residents. Incidentally, it turned out that the water leak was in the join between the stop valve and the blue plastic 'supply side' water main. Shortly afterwards...the workmen left. They had replaced the stop valve with what looked like an all plastic alternative, left the contents of the hole on the side of the pavement adjacent to the hole, surrounded the hole and its contents with an 8 foot by five foot arrangement of bright yellow plastic barriers and sited a total of four signs over an approx 100 metre stretch of pavement, indicating 'Footpath Closed'. All of this in a Cul De Sac with 6 houses..... And yet somehow.. United Utilities had not provided said workmen with the means to backfill the hole and make a simple patch repair to the pavement. As you can probably deduce from the above... I am lost for words... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,460 Posted June 12, 2021 Report Share Posted June 12, 2021 Under the New Roads and Street Works Act (I was a qualified supervisor ) the hole must be filled using MOT grade stone and materials as per the 'Blue Book'. The work is then guaranteed for a minimum 2 years, regardless of the where it is... The local authority will at some point inspect the work, for which the contractor has to pay, and can order it to be excavated and redone if necessary. This starts the 2 years warranty period again. The contractor can also be fined if the signs are not set out correctly That's why most utilities use contractors and not direct labour. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nonnaB 4,909 Posted June 12, 2021 Report Share Posted June 12, 2021 Sorry to hear that BK. I've lost all my favourite aunts but have lovely memories of them as I'm sure you have. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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