Soras place

Being a smoker in this day and age is not an easy business. You are frequently made to feel like a social pariah and, if you want a cigarette somewhere warm, then you’ll just have to wait for the summer.

Here are a couple of handy little bits of smoking paraphernalia that I came across on ‘gadgetshop.com’. The first one of these is a heat resistant rubber ashtray. Even if you enjoy a smoke it does not mean that you enjoy using a grotty-looking ashtray so this one is a great idea… Because it is made of a special type of heat resistant silicone, it will not end up looking scarred from repeated ‘stubbings’. When you have emptied and wiped this ashtray it will look like new!

The other handy item that I have seen is a USB cigarette lighter. After you have plugged it into your computer and given it a charge it will ignite 150 smokes before it is flat. There is even a blue indicator light on the side of it to warn you if the battery is getting low! What a brilliant idea; it can be absolutely infuriating when your bog standard refillable suddenly gives up the ghost. And this one is even windproof! Considering that we smokers have now been banished to the great outdoors to have our fix, this is a very useful feature.

So, fellow smokers, it is good to know that not everyone out there is against us. Some clever designer has developed this rechargeable lighter especially for the twenty-first century.

And a message for all of those non-smokers who hate us all so much; put that in your pipe and smoke it!

Philip’s surprise 21st birthday bash: I think I know what we should do. We should arrange some time at one of his favourite ski resorts as a surprise. I know that it is a little bit costly but think of all the good fun that we would have!