Monthly Archives: September 2023
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Posted: September 18, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »I’m in shock at the moment, I was cleaning the missus’s pride and joy, her DeLonghi Magnifica coffee making machine, and it managed to get mangled it in a way the manufacturers might has said was inventive. So I’ll be forming an orderly queue at the telephone for when they open on this grey Monday morning. They pick them up and take them back to the repair shop for fixing, no roving engineers...
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Posted: September 17, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »And now, the end is near And so I face the final curtain My friends, I'll say it clear I'll state my case of which I'm certain
Barbara Dickson the beloved Scottish singer and National Treasure is about to go on her very last tour after 60 years on the hoof from stage to stage and perhaps those words are appropriate to her too. It’s a journey that’s taken her from the dingy folk clubs of Fife to...
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Posted: September 16, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »In another life I once sent an inflatable sheep to the Greek Ambassador to the Court of St James. Explanation, I was looking for a quotable reaction, so I could publicise it in the national newspapers, but the canny Athenian didn’t make a squeak and the stunt died without a noise. You may ask me why I needed a quote from His Excellency, but my lips are sealed on a terrible TV show that sank without...
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Posted: September 16, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Do you have space for a six foot tall whisky bottle in your home, well a Vietnamese businessman does? Admittedly he’s already got more than the odd dram, with a whisky collection valued at some £150m, so you wouldn’t want to drop one of his bottles. The bottle in question cost £1.1m and was sold at auction last year in the Nation’s capital. The vessel was filled with about 311 litres or about 550 pints...
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Posted: September 15, 2023Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Now giant pandas are undeniably cute. They are the symbol of the World Wildlife Fund and they are the number one attraction at Edinburg Zoo, but they are also infuriating animals. The inflexibility of the creatures is well known. They aren’t the least bit interested in having sex, they live mostly alone and have the very devil of a job to reproduce, even when conditions are ideal. Their fertility cycle...
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Posted: September 12, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »The issue of ferries in the islands around our shores has been a hot topic over the last few years, but for once there seems to be light down the tunnel, an electric light. There is to be a new trial electric ferry for the Orkneys. Let’s hope there are enough recharging points! The test is part of a £15.5m trial project which is part of the country’s bid to go carbon neutral and reduce our reliance...
