Fish for monastery lunch on Friday. They call lunch "dinner" at 1.15pm. Could be fish and chips. There are condiments available. Also a beer if you want one. Breakfast everyday is just toast and cereal -- coffee, tea, juice or whatever. A light supper in the evening -- soup and sandwiches or something like that at 7.15pm. Compline 'night prayer' at 8.30pm then the great silence until morning ...
No human engineer can make a single living cell of a single blade of grass ...
Catholic monks do get a beer with their meals, if they want one. On special feast days talking is allowed at meals and on those days wine is served with dinner. Some monks do smoke and the monastery allows them 200 cigs a month.
In time they will do it, or perhaps they won't require that.
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In time anything Aup. Instant teleportation, interstellar travel ... probably, perhaps, etc ...
Once you're in your room and close the door, nobody will open that door except you from the inside. Your room is inviolable. You could have a bottle of whisky and nobody would ever have to know ...
I am not allowed / I now do not smoke in the house. The smell lingers for a long time. I agree that it is obnoxious. So, I smoke in the balcony. Thank Allah, that no one else in the family smokes. It is a bad, unhealthy, expensive habit; for some, difficult to abandon. Good that my smoking is restricted. Whisky too is not much appreciated by my wife, so occasionally only (though I like it. Basically, I like many bad things, bad food is another - fried, high on salt and chilies).
I like a bit of chilli but that would be too hot for meI am not allowed / I now do not smoke in the house. The smell lingers for a long time. I agree that it is obnoxious. So, I smoke in the balcony. Thank Allah, that no one else in the family smokes. It is a bad, unhealthy, expensive habit; for some, difficult to abandon. Good that my smoking is restricted. Whisky too is not much appreciated by my wife, so occasionally only (though I like it. Basically, I like many bad things, bad food is another - fried, high on salt and chilies).
Rajasthani Laal (Red) Mass, Chilli Chatak Laccha
I had my last smoke December 31st 2025, after a year of stopping and starting. I am pleased to say that haven't desired one since then.I am not allowed / I now do not smoke in the house. The smell lingers for a long time. I agree that it is obnoxious. So, I smoke in the balcony. Thank Allah, that no one else in the family smokes. It is a bad, unhealthy, expensive habit; for some, difficult to abandon. Good that my smoking is restricted. Whisky too is not much appreciated by my wife, so occasionally only (though I like it. Basically, I like many bad things, bad food is another - fried, high on salt and chilies).
Rajasthani Laal (Red) Mass, Chilli Chatak Laccha
I am not allowed / I now do not smoke in the house. The smell lingers for a long time. I agree that it is obnoxious. So, I smoke in the balcony. Thank Allah, that no one else in the family smokes. It is a bad, unhealthy, expensive habit; for some, difficult to abandon. Good that my smoking is restricted. Whisky too is not much appreciated by my wife, so occasionally only (though I like it. Basically, I like many bad things, bad food is another - fried, high on salt and chilies).
Rajasthani Laal (Red) Mass, Chilli
I also always enjoy @Aupmanyav's posts. I think Aup's wife looks after him well. I quit smoking about 12 yrs ago.
