Day 264 - 22nd September 2010

Autumn semester, week one day three. Another day in the office and then off to the pub for a catch-up with a few people we hadn't seen for a while. The photo of the day is of something I had never seen before. One of the people at our table was smoking a pipe and using this device to make sure the tobacco was, um, whatever tobacco should be like in a pipe. Any idea how you say this in English?