Monthly Archives: May 2023
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Posted: May 28, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »I was looking after a friend who had a knee replacement operation in March and was involved in a low speed lamb chase myself. She has a field that she lends to a local shepherd and he fattens his lambs on it, but they can be extremely frisky and troublesome. Out in the garden I heard, “Get Adam!” The last two remaining sheep had escaped the field and were in the garden munching prize plants. So I sprang...
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Posted: May 21, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »The signs were there when Phillip Schofield was reviewing the great Charles III coronation memorabilia on This Morning Live without normal co-host Holly Willoughby present and instead there was celebrity pawnbroker Dan Hatfield. They were there taking a gander at the goods, including our very own Coronation Paperweight with royal cipher. One television industry veteran, me, says: “Now with hindsight...
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Posted: May 20, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Have you noticed how men like machines and history, it’s not terribly sexist to say so I don’t think, not that many women don’t too, but we with X and Y chromosomes are especially known for it. Me, I’m an unashamed history buff and I love the skirl of the pipes and a dram of history. So I was interested that they are rebuilding the possibly arson prone replica of an Iron Age village at the Scottish...
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Posted: May 16, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Way back when I was student I studied Anglo-Saxon and the whole of this area of subject had only one joke, “The Study of Anglo-Saxon has no future.” Yes them’s the jokes.’ It’s only a joke, because the language had no future tense and in that sense was a fairly primitive language, but at least there were existing texts and books and stories from that age. The word Pict may even be pejorative, as it...
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Posted: May 10, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »As you can see from the picture there is an actual toad in a hole and the presence of said toad led to a downing of tools by a friend building an extension, because he is absolutely petrified of toads. Which is more shocking when you know that he is a well built 6 foot 5 inches tall and I’m not sure how he could be more manly! And it is called Ranidaphobia which is an intense, irrational fear...
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Posted: May 03, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
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Now I don’t know about you but I doubt I’ll be up at 6 a.m. for the start of the proceedings and as you can tell from writing this I’m not one of those hardy souls already camped out on the Mall in London to get the best perch for the Coronation...
