Monthly Archives: March 2017
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Posted: March 13, 2017Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Salt Wives Not Just a Game of Thrones Species –
And a Reminder for Mother’s Day : If You Are Worth Your Salt
Now if you are like our family you are waiting for the next instalments of Game of Thrones with bated breath, or if you aren’t so good with the toothbrush, baited breath! I saw it is finally scheduled for July this year and is only 7 episodes, well that seems a bit mean. And worse to boot Ed...
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Posted: March 09, 2017Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Have You Got a Million or Two to Spare?
Then I have a House for You
A castle, one of the oldest houses in Scotland and outside Montrose in Angus, dating back to the late 13th century is up for sale. For a while it housed the heart of Robert the Bruce and here Mary Queen of Scots plotted against the English queen Elizabeth I. The castle is called “The Craig” and it has been continuously occupied throughout...
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Posted: March 09, 2017Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
The Trek to the Post Box –
Is it a Red Letter Day?
Well good news for some in that the Post Office, okay Royal Mail, are installing about150 new post boxes in Scotland this spring. This is happening despite the habit of writing and sending letters being in steep decline with the advent of the internet and texting by phone. Royal Mail will target these new boxes on rural areas, new housing developments...
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Posted: March 08, 2017Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Whisky Galore for Whisky Maestro –
Job Opportunity for Lover of the Scottish Winter
Now not many job ads come with the kind of flourish and warning about our weather as does that for a new distillery on one of Scotland’s most beautiful small islands Raasay. Raasay is a 25 minute ferry ride from the Isle of Skye and it has only 170 inhabitants. Raasay is famous for being the birthplace of John McKay...
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Posted: March 08, 2017Categories: James Pirie News
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Posted: March 08, 2017Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Don’t Scuttle Off to Scapa –
New Interactive Site Map of Famous Shipwrecks
At the end of the Great War, AKA WW1, the German High Seas Fleet scuttled itself at Scapa Flow making it the most famous shipwreck site in the world. It is also one of the most dived sites on the planet. And to make it all more available to divers and land lubbers like me it has been interactively mapped with new digital technology...
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Posted: March 08, 2017Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
What Would William Topaz McGonagall Do for Mother’s Day?
You’ll Have Had Your Tay I Say
Reader’s of this blog will know my fondness for the doggerel of creation’s worst poet, and therefore one of its finest, William McGonagall and so I am always happy to report news of Topaz’s cunning rather than his blundering. WTM was an unemployed weaver who rose to national stardom on the back of his poem on the...
