Monthly Archives: July 2018
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Posted: July 26, 2018Read more »
Jam, Jute and Journalism –
80th Anniversary for Grand Old Comic
Now it is not often that something that touches so many lives, and in a positive way, reaches the age of 80, but The Beano, that illustrious product of Dundee has become Britain’s longest running children’s comic. It used to be said of Dundee that it ran on Jam, Jute and Journalism and by jings it did well on them. Jam is still there...
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Posted: July 19, 2018Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Are You In with the Gin Crowd? –
Gin Is It, At Least for Some
Well we’ve just had World Gin Day, don’t ask me how I missed it, but there it was on the second Saturday of June which has been officially designated World Gin Day and has been since 2008. By jings I am behind the times. And Scottish gin is set, so the trending graphs say, to outsell our native tipple and national pride, whisky by...
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Posted: July 10, 2018Read more »
Gin and It, No Gin Is It –
On Trend Drink in Scotland
Have you noticed the way that gin is taking over the world? This tasty drop was once was called ’mother’s ruin’ and featured in Hogarth’s engraving and art in ‘The Rakes’ Progress’ where drunk mothers dropped bairns by the wayside. But since the turn of the century this brew has become the tipplers choice. Regular readers might recall I went...
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Posted: July 09, 2018Read more »
Rain Rain Come Again
Waterer’s Elbow and Other Strange Complaints
I was just talking to a friend in Sweden about her garden and it seems it is a parched wasteland with only 25 millimetres of water having fallen in the last two and a half months. Around her in nearby Oskarshamn they have forest fires and this in the land of lakes. But here I can sympathise with not a great deal of rain having...
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Posted: July 03, 2018Read more »
Once Bitten Twice Shy-
Cleg Nuisance Abounds
The long spell of warm weather has seen the cleg or horsefly biting more people than ever and it is a bite you should take seriously as the bites can become infected and require a trip to the docs or casualty. And it’s all the fault of a summer that has been warmer with mor sunshine and less dreich. As people spend more time in the sun and expose more...
