Monthly Archives: March 2023
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Posted: March 28, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »The West Indies in the winter, it sounds like a dream and believe me I have dreamed about it, as has the missus. In fact she goes further and regularly says that before she met me she could go every year for a break to St Lucia and play tennis in the sun in the winter, just as she always did. I always reply, there’s nothing to stop you dearest, but it gets a scowl. But one lucky female has made it...
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Posted: March 23, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »What do you do first thing in the morning? Are you like the members of our household and do Wordle yet again to keep your winning run on the go? Yes we are hooked. Rather less so than in the beginning, but still firmly under the thumb of those pesky setters in the offices of the New York Times. At this very moment I am under the darkened skies of a marital fatwa - if I interrupt the missus while she...
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Posted: March 22, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »When the wind blows we now have a great deal of relatively cheap energy and as seaside dwellers we are seeing ideas floated for our local area for wind generation across our horizon, but what happens when the wind doesn’t blow as it didn’t most of last summer and when those windmills are just very expensive skyline ornaments? Well the people in Scotland have the answer it’s a hydro scheme designed...
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Posted: March 10, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Naw ye canny shove yer grannie
Cause she's yer mammie's mammie
Ye canny shove yer grannie aff a bus
Sung to the tune of: She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain
This is a song that always makes me laugh and it carries a serious point that your granny is your mammie’s mammie and therefore due even more respect than any other old lady. And with Mother’s Day just around the corner and no buses in sight...
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Posted: March 07, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
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I just looked at the weather map and there is a yellow hammer shape over the entire east of Scotland and that said hammer is an amber weather warning for snow. Oh, it’s chilly I say! But I’m not there of course. I’m currently ‘babysitting’ a friend after an op. A series of yellow...
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Posted: March 05, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »This year Mother’s Day is on Sunday 19th March and it’s almost upon us. So don’t miss out on the opportunity to show that wonderful person that you love her. Of course the origins of the day is Mothering Sunday when you returned to your mother church, but don’t let that stop the demonstration of your respect and affection. Do you know the full story of our mum, or your mum in –law? It’s often in...
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Posted: March 04, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »The dog in the picture is Max and he’s a part of the story today, because this week we have decamped away from the sea side to the depths of the country and to a friend’s house. We are looking after her after a knee operation and Max comes as part of the package. We have to walk his dogginess twice a day in the open country; and of course it is a delight. Points of information about Max, is he’s...
