Monthly Archives: November 2023
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Posted: November 30, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Well I hope you enjoyed the special day for our patron saint, Saint Andrew, but I’m not sure that the drone operator in the Orkneys who ditched a very expensive piece of hardware into the sea will have enjoyed it as the investigations around the crash continue. A remote operator saw that the new drone mail delivery service for Orkney showed a fault on the system. And following protocol they allowed...
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Posted: November 21, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »This year what with the credit squeeze and the cost of living crisis me and the missus have started doing our Christmas shopping early, not to avoid the rush, but to pick up bargains where we can and set them aside for the festive time and spread the cost over a few months. This frugal urge doesn’t apply to all though as someone has paid £2.1m for a bottle of the true nectar, whisky. A single bottle...
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Posted: November 10, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »I don’t know about you, but last week I had to drive through floods on three occasions and one was so deep I was feared that the car would stall and me and the missus would have to wade to safety and leave the darn thing in the water. However, we made it through and I had a moan about how we wouldn’t have had that problem if we still had my ancient Jeep which I sold not so long ago. So flood measures...
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Posted: November 09, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »A couple of weeks ago we were basking in the glorious sunlight of Barcelona and visiting lots of art galleries and it was generally a marvellous experience with the highlight being the first day of a Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso exhibition before the hordes arrived, but the most puzzling was Roman Ondak’s stuff with his largest artwork a coat cloakroom installation. This was a load of coat hanging racks...
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Posted: November 08, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »The sea has forests that keep our world healthy, but we don’t think about them in the same way that we worry and fret about the deforestation of the Amazon, but seagrass meadows are very important to our ecology rather nearer to home. In Orkney teams are harvesting seagrass seeds to implant them across the nation’s coastal sea beds and improve the planet’s ability to absorb carbon and provide a...
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Posted: November 05, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Strangely enough I know a lot of Fionas, but the latest Fiona I hear is a bit of Greta Garbo kind of girl. She didn’t ask to be alone, or even rescued, when she was stranded at the bottom of a cliff for two years. But that’s because she was a sheep; and she’s now been rescued. I’m not sure if she knew she was lonely, even though the species is a flock animal, but she was dubbed “Britain’s Loneliest...
