Well we’ve made it through hopefully the worst of Winter, the clocks have changed, the evenings are stretching out, and even here in the Wet and Woolly Southern Highlands in the West of Scotland we’ve had some good days letting us get out into the garden - and on the vaping front I can sit out in the summer house with enough light to wind coils and see what the Devil I’m doing!
Over the Winter I’ve been stocking up on mods and batteries before, what’s laughingly called the UK Government, brings in its vaping Tax in October ‘25 and as it’ll double the price of E Liquids, of course I’ve been stocking up, ordering up a litre of my 16 strength Menthol mix a month.
Shortly I’ll change this to a litre of 7.2 Nicotine Shots a month - the strongest concentration we are allowed under TPD rules - and go back to making up my own unflavoured juice.
Paradoxically, one of the stated reasons for bringing in a ban on Disposables was to cut down the amount of waste going to landfill, yet ,as we are restricted to buying all vape liquids in 10 ml bottles, this means I’ll be chucking out 100 of the said plastic bottles a month, as I transfer my stuff to amber glass bottles, but hey ho that’s politicians for you - never the deepest of thinkers!
The big change for me however, was how I’ve taken to Brunhilde MTLs and how they have replaced Nautilus Minis in my affections - there hasn’t been a day since last August that I’ve never used one for at least part of the day.
After really taking to the Brunhildes, I did a bit more experimenting, but that wasn't great success. I tried a Svoemesto which was a chronic jammer although a superb vape between whiles, an Alberich because I couldn't source another Brunhilde in the UK and what a diificult brute that was to coil and wick and which went to Vape heaven as the coils would not stay in place, and finally a Nautilus 3 which I simply could not take to, even though it used my long term favourite drop in coils. Howver the Alberich and Nauti 3 mouthpieces were kept and work fine on my Brunhildes, so it wasn't a total loss!.
Things have been a bit quiet on ECF of late, so I thought I’d post an update from Scottish Scotland - how's your Winters gone?
Over the Winter I’ve been stocking up on mods and batteries before, what’s laughingly called the UK Government, brings in its vaping Tax in October ‘25 and as it’ll double the price of E Liquids, of course I’ve been stocking up, ordering up a litre of my 16 strength Menthol mix a month.
Shortly I’ll change this to a litre of 7.2 Nicotine Shots a month - the strongest concentration we are allowed under TPD rules - and go back to making up my own unflavoured juice.
Paradoxically, one of the stated reasons for bringing in a ban on Disposables was to cut down the amount of waste going to landfill, yet ,as we are restricted to buying all vape liquids in 10 ml bottles, this means I’ll be chucking out 100 of the said plastic bottles a month, as I transfer my stuff to amber glass bottles, but hey ho that’s politicians for you - never the deepest of thinkers!
The big change for me however, was how I’ve taken to Brunhilde MTLs and how they have replaced Nautilus Minis in my affections - there hasn’t been a day since last August that I’ve never used one for at least part of the day.
After really taking to the Brunhildes, I did a bit more experimenting, but that wasn't great success. I tried a Svoemesto which was a chronic jammer although a superb vape between whiles, an Alberich because I couldn't source another Brunhilde in the UK and what a diificult brute that was to coil and wick and which went to Vape heaven as the coils would not stay in place, and finally a Nautilus 3 which I simply could not take to, even though it used my long term favourite drop in coils. Howver the Alberich and Nauti 3 mouthpieces were kept and work fine on my Brunhildes, so it wasn't a total loss!.
Things have been a bit quiet on ECF of late, so I thought I’d post an update from Scottish Scotland - how's your Winters gone?
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