Monthly Archives: February 2017
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Posted: February 26, 2017Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
We Panda to Your Every Whim –
The Fight to Save the Species
Now I love wildlife and birds and so I am always excited to learn of new initiatives to preserve wildlife. Obviously I am a sucker for some super stars like the panda. And we are very lucky as the only giant pandas in the UK are in Edinburgh. The female is called Tian Tian (Sweetie) and the male is Yang Guang (Sunshine). Pandas are...
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Posted: February 26, 2017Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Scotland Back in the Car making Game –
East Lothian Company Makes Scottish Raptor
Did you know that the first automobile in the UK was built in Scotland? Well it was, but you wouldn’t know that from the current Scottish car industry, which until recently was non-existent. Now a tiny outfit in east Lothian is carrying the banner for auto engineering in the nation, making a car dubbed ’the raptor, ’...
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Posted: February 26, 2017Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Mothers’ Day March 26
Well it is in the UK Anyway
It seems I am afraid to go on the computer these days because some bright spark will have done something new and cute and it’ll make me feel old, I’m not really, and I’ll have go and have a lie down. The latest is a FaceBook emoticon for Mother’s Day. Now I’ll get points for knowing and occasionally using and an emoticon ;-) but really it seems if...
