Monthly Archives: July 2022
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Posted: July 20, 2022
Read more »So that’s Where the Name Salt Wives Came From!
Well it’s been a while since the massive TV series Game of Thrones introduced us to the term Salt Wives, but it seems that in raiding cultures from around the globe to build his wonderfully bleak fantasy reality the author saw that they were real in the Scotland of yore and appropriated the expression.
Did you know that the shores of the Firth of Forth...
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Posted: July 18, 2022Read more »
Kilt Shortage Hits Scotland’s Wedding Industry
In another life, well certainly a while ago in 2005, I organised a European tour for the three boys from Discovery’s hit TV series American Chopper and it wasn’t a lot of fun. I don’t know if you remember it, but it was a USA family business that customised Harley Davidson motor cycles for customers with more money than sense and fought each other tooth...
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Posted: July 11, 2022Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Single Malt Breaks the Record Price
I have this fantasy about investing in Scotch. You know, in the cold of a winter evening I’ll sit in front of the log burner with a fine glass and a dram of single malt warning in the palm of my hand and dream of owning rare Scotch. But for one lucky punter in Asia it has stopped being a pipe dream and they put a very large sum of money where his or her mouth is...
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Posted: July 06, 2022Read more »
Platinum News
If you’ve seen a bunch of children in sports gear running with a large wooden object all round Scotland you may just have seen the Queen’s Baton Relay which is the Commonwealth Games equivalent of the Olympic Torch. The 2022 Commonwealth Games are due to be held in sunny Birmingham from 28 July to 8 August this year.The baton, which has a message from the Queen inside it, spent five days...
