Tools of the Trade

Behold the used and abused tools of the trade that is After-Dinner Shisha.



The one on the ledft .. err .. right .. err .. outside, yes, OUTSIDE is the poor old battered coal pan. It was truly an art firing up the coal on it. Breaking the bits so they'd be a specific size, then lining the bottom with thel argest coals and spacing out the smaller pieces on top. Fishing out the coals was a trick in itself: the bottom ones always got doen first.

And behold the NEW COAL PAN on the inside. Wow. Look at those perfect holes.

Sadly, when we repalce what is old (and perhaps experienced and conditioned to our ways and to whose way WE are conditioned) and replace it with what is new (and shiny), we realize that 'new' comes with new challenges and that 'new' is unfamiliar and that 'new' .. ultimately .. does your head in becasue 'new' takes getting used to.

And by the time you get used to 'new', 'new' is no longer new. It is old. And you end up with a new 'new' and the cycle starts all over again.

*sigh*

I meant to write something about the joys of After-Dinner Shisha, but what is BPC if not digressional?