Monthly Archives: January 2023
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Posted: January 30, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »It’s a funny thing how you meet someone these days, but whether you’ve been together for 50 years or 5 weeks it’s important not to ignore Valentine’s Day. People always ask how I met the missus ten years ago now, but I always say it was how I asked her to marry me that was the important bit.
You have to show a bit of savvy. It was second time round for both of us and so I wanted to demonstrate I was...
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Posted: January 25, 2023Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the pudding-race!
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Scotland’s National Bard, whose work is celebrated around the world. And on Burns Night it is traditional to entertain friends and read out the great man ‘s work and address the pudding. And he great chieftain o’the pudding race is the haggis, but have you ever tried to make it? Well...
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Posted: January 19, 2023Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
O flower of Scotland, the lion that is Sir Andy Murray. Fighting back against the ever so slightly obnoxious Thanasi Kokkinakis and a crowd that can be more than slightly biased being noisy and rude. The Flying Scotsman, I will leave no cliché under used here is a living marvel. The real Braveheart, with sinews of steely strength and to take Jurgen Klopp out of context: “ A mentality monster” has triumphed...
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Posted: January 18, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »We Laid the Floor but Didn’t Drink the Whisky
In 1887 three years before the establishment of James Pirie a couple of craftsmen left a message in a whisky bottle under the floorboards they had just laid in a posh Edinburgh house. And pretty good those floorboards must have been as they lay undisturbed until last November when a plumber was having a root and discovered the message and the bottle at...
