Monthly Archives: August 2022
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Posted: August 30, 2022Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Sometimes there is something in the air, a trend that becomes almost compulsory and everyone’s at it and quite often we don’t always know why. One of those trends is re-wilding which is like a snowball gathering pace as it rolls down the hill. Recently bison, beaver and pine martens have been introduced and there’s talk of wolves and no doubt someone somewhere wants to reintroduce Mammoths, Velociraptors...
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Posted: August 29, 2022Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »The news is full of energy stories at the moment and the drive towards renewables is in full flow with wind farm after wind farm either proposed or approved for the near future. In Scotland there has been an announcement for three new developments in the waters around Shetland which are expected to power some two million homes when the wind blows. The Crown Estate Scotland owns the seabed around the...
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Posted: August 29, 2022Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Are you finding the travails of modern life a bit much? Has the trek to work palled, or the working from home become a chore? I’ve included a lovely picture of the sea at sunset, that always makes me calmer and it is the view from our house. But many people need to get further away than just a sunset. For those of a sturdy independent cast of mind there is an opportunity to become that solitary creature...
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Posted: August 28, 2022Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Well it’s come to my attention that the legend of the Loch Ness monster might be somewhat based on fact. It seems that from a fossil discovered on the riverbed of an ancient African water course such creatures might have lived in freshwater. The rub is of course that the fossil is about 100 million years old and Loch Ness itself is only 10,000 years old. The telltale fossils of the prehistoric monster...
