Monthly Archives: November 2015
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Posted: November 25, 2015Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Don’t Get a Turkey This Thanksgiving
Duck and Cover It’s Black Friday
Yes while you are enjoying the plenty of the harvest you’ll have those nagging worries about presents and BLACK FRIDAY. If you are in the USA you will be watching the Football game and beside the players getting blitzed, you will be getting bombarded with messages to buy buy buy! as soon as the turkey and all the trimmings have worn...
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Posted: November 19, 2015Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
The Spectre of Vodka Raised by New Bond Movie
Scotch on the Rocks Shock
Apologies for not commenting on the New James Bond film SPECTRE but I was on my honeymoon in France. Yes even at my age! And the big news from the movie if not the box office is that Bond’s flirtation with Scotch whisky is over for the moment. He is now getting SMERSHED on Vodka. Which given the film’s tepid reception in the...
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Posted: November 14, 2015Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Hope for the Haggis
Dreadful Embargo to Be Lifted
Since 1971 our American cousins have been deprived of that most Scottish of delicacies, the Haggis. But secret and not so secret negotiations between Scotland’s Food Secretary and the American Department of Agriculture have made progress. The veritable Haggis called by Robert Burns, ”the Chieftain o’ the pudding race,” is made from lamb products that...
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Posted: November 10, 2015Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Black Friday an Apology For Being GREAT!
Black Friday Deals on James Pirie - We Are Already Brilliant
In a week where Black Friday is set to be more popular than Christmas week for holiday shopping, we are ready for the rush. Some 75% of British shoppers rank price as the most important factor in their purchasers and with our special offers, sometimes as much as half off normal prices we believe...
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Posted: November 10, 2015Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh
Searching for the Meaning in Gifts
The wise men brought three gifts. The gold we know about but Frankincense seems to be a form of oil that we might inhale via a vapouriser to induce calm and myrrh is also an essential oil. So in today’s terms with the absence of gold they don’t seem that exotic any more. And that’s especially true if you watched the Top Gear Special in...
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Posted: November 07, 2015Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Last Minute Gifts are the Worst Christmas Gifts of All Time- OFFICIAL
Think Ahead: Avoid Last Minute Shopping Disasters
A major bank has revealed that all the worst gifts we receive were the result of last minute panic at the shops. Barclays commissioned the survey and amongst the shockers was that one in ten of us leave their Christmas shopping till the day itself! No wonder a similar survey by internet...
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Posted: November 06, 2015Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Happiness Survey Puts Scotland Ahead
Think Tank Says Scots ‘Get it Right’
A think tank has found out that Scotland is a terrific place to live, something its inhabitants could have told them, unless they were living in North Lanarkshire which was Scotland’s lowest ranked place to live, at 147 out of 170 places in the UK. This beat all those rich, plush southern places in the Home Counties.
Best...
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Posted: November 05, 2015Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Red Squirrel Down
Cute, Small, Red and Agile
A thug has shot a red squirrel near Lockerbie and it has triggered a police investigation as these marvellous creatures are a protected species.
Scotland is home to some eighty five per cent of the world’s red squirrel population and this endangered animal has a difficult enough time of it already.
They are quick and agile and spend more time aloft than...
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Posted: November 04, 2015Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
In Flanders Field
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch;...
