Monthly Archives: November 2017
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Posted: November 18, 2017Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Sir Andy Splits from Ivan –
Tennis Star Has Second Break Up
Well I suppose it had to happen and Ivan Lendl and Sir Andy Murray have split before the tennis star’s comeback at the Australian Open championship in January. The wife and I will be there at all sorts of unsocial hours watching it on the yahoo ap. The break up looks to be friendly and by mutual agreement it has come at horrible time for Andy...
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Posted: November 16, 2017Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Happy Saint Andrew’s Day –
The patron saint of Scotland is also the patron of Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, San Andres Island, Colombia, Saint Andrew, Barbados and Tenerife. Indeed one of my sons is called Andrew, so it is a good day. The name Andrew is Greek and means manly and brave. Apostle Saint Andrew was the brother of Saint...
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Posted: November 08, 2017Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Roger Where’s Your Troosers –
Murray in ‘See You Jimmy’ Hat
To wear the kilt is my delight
It is not wrong I know it's right
The Murray Brothers would get a fright
If they saw me in the troosersRecently I wrote about Andy Murray’s hip problem, but this month he’s shaken that off for a while to play Swiss Ace Roger Federer in an exhibition match to raise money for charities Unicef and Young People’s...
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Posted: November 07, 2017Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Puffin Numbers Rise after Cooler Summer-
Isle of May Birds Recover
Scotland is home to 80% of the UK’s population of puffins and this iconic sea bird has had a better year. They had had their best breeding season since 1989 with some 87% of the breeding pairs successfully rearing a youngster. There are 10 million puffins worldwide, but Scotland is one of the key places for the breed which lives on...
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Posted: November 07, 2017Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
New Driving Test in Force by Christmas –
More Like Real Driving
On December 4th a new driving test comes into being to test new drivers’ skills in more of a real life environment and I guess it will be even more difficult to pass. In some American states young drivers get lessons at the desk in ‘Drivers’ Ed’ and at the end of it get a licence at the age of 15 or 16 with very little in the way...
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Posted: November 06, 2017Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Fake Handbags, Fake News, Fake Whisky –
World Gone Crazy
I have been down the market and seen the counterfeits they sell as designer luxury goods at knock off prices, but until today I hadn’t realised that criminal scammers were up to it with whisky. I have read before that counterfeit drugs were circulating in places like the Far East and that an antibiotic tablet might contain nothing more than whey...
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Posted: November 02, 2017Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Scotland Wildlife at Risk
Foreign Invaders Cost Millions
Now if you are a dog lover like me you might remember a Channel 5 programme about Overtoun Bridge near Dumfries which went out a dozen years ago. The bridge is significant because at the time more than 50 dogs had leaped from the bridge and some done themselves mighty mischief in the process. I remember it because the likely culprit was nobody’s...
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Posted: November 02, 2017Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Up on the Roof –
Preparing for the Worst
Did you know you can get an ultra long range weather forecast for Scotland and it will take you up to Christmas and beyond with a fair amount of rather generalised accuracy.? So I can see that Christmas Day itself will be about 3 degrees Celsius, very cloudy and likely wet with a wind speed of up to 22 miles an hour. That’s pretty breezy I can tell you. Which...
