Monthly Archives: October 2016
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Posted: October 31, 2016Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Caithness to Build Iron Age Jewel –
A New Broch for the Future
When I first read this story I thought the good people of Caithness had lost it and were raising a million quid to buy or make a “Broach”, but then I read more carefully and it was a broch, not a broach. As you might know a broch is an Iron Age drystone structure with hollow walls. And they are only found in Scotland. The theory used to...
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Posted: October 31, 2016Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
A Million Quid of Whisky down the Drain –
A Scottish Tragedy
It is a story to make a strong, whisky loving man, weep. After a major leak some 60,000 litres of Whisky worth a £1 million flooded into the ground from the Loch Lomond Distillers warehouse in Ayrshire’s Catrine. The company store the wonder brew in giant vats and one developed a leak which went unnoticed for some time.
The Sink of Depravity?...
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Posted: October 31, 2016Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Oh No Christmas is Coming! –
Oh Great Christmas is Coming
Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat
Please do put a penny in the old man's hat
If you haven't got a penny, a ha'penny will do
If you haven't got a ha'penny, then God bless you!
Back on the Menu Again!
Now we are allowed to have fat again I suppose goose will be back on the Christmas menu, but it has been a long time off most diets...
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Posted: October 22, 2016Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Look Out There Is a Scot About!
Andy Murray and Fight to Be Number 1
Watch out Novak Andy Murray is on your tail. From being the definitive second best to the Serb all this last year he has had the finest spell of tennis in his playing history. As they say in the broadsheets he has burned through China in dominant fashion. He won 10 straight matches that concluded in a 7-6, 6-1 victory in the Shanghai...
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Posted: October 22, 2016Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
On Your Bike-
Retired Couple Latest ‘Victims’ of Culloden
A retired couple, who dress as Jacobites and are often seen on the streets of Inverness, have been told to sling their hook by with the National Trust for Scotland who felt their replica weapons posed a threat. This almost 300 years after the battle of Culloden the doughty pair who show visitors the battlefield have fallen foul of health...
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Posted: October 22, 2016Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Hang on to Your Hat –
Winter’s Coming
As you might recall I have shifted myself to the sea edge and I am now very interested in sea level rise, waves and storm fronts on the radio. Well Scottish scientist are helping me in my search for better and more security from the battering the winter will bring They have a new system which enables them to predict the danger zones when vast waves batter coastal...
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Posted: October 22, 2016Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Mad Scottish Piper is Hit in Italy
He Saved the Lives of Dozens
A late lamented bagpiper and war hero is being feted in Italy. David “Mad Piper” Kirkpatrick who was in the wartime SAS has become a cult hero in Albinea and the Italian Celtic folk group, yes yes there are such things , the Modena City Ramblers have released a song dedicated to him; entitled The Brave Scottish Piper.
The Brave...
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Posted: October 01, 2016Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
900 Scots Living Beyond 100 –
Queen Kept Busy Sending Centenarians Special Messages
Just after the news that the Japanese government has downgraded the sake cup the Emperor sends to every 100 year old Japanese citizen comes the news that there are now a massive 900 Scots who are over a 100 years old. Recently the Japanese government ended the tradition, quite a new one since 1073, of giving centenarians...
