Monthly Archives: December 2023
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Posted: December 22, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
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Posted: December 19, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Elvish is In the Building
And just for your delight through the questionable magic of Artificial intelligence I’ve created an ELVISH Presley to cheer you through the last few days of frantic activity in the festive season. So for The Wonder of You we’ve got a Santa’s sack full of goodies. Just don’t step on Santa’s Blue Suede Shoes so we can create an Unchained Melody of great value. And because...
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Posted: December 17, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Well Lady Kim and Sir Andy Murray certainly know how to go about a top notch, or should I say ace, family Christmas. They had that grand old lady of the kitchen Mary Berry show up and film a Christmas cooking special at their Cromlix Hotel in Scotland. They bought it the year of Andy’s first Wimbledon win in 2013, I remember it well my missus was in the crowd and she fainted from the heat. It’s a red-head...
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Posted: December 15, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Have you ever found anything interesting on your garden fork or spade, well me neither? But 70 years ago a schoolboy was digging up potatoes in the gardens of his school in Fife and dug up what the thought was a spud, but it was far from that. It was in fact a 4,000 year old treasure. The lad was being punished for a misdemeanour, but he found a genuine piece of ancient history. The “spud” was in...
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Posted: December 14, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Parts of Scotland were hit by an earthquake this week, but it wasn’t a biggie. It measured just 2.1 ML on the Richter Scale which is what we might otherwise call a tremor. Each time you go up on the Richter Scale it goes up by a magnitude of ten. So 3.1 is ten times bigger than 2.1. On the 3rd December the earthquake was felt in Morvern in the Highlands in the middle of the afternoon. And those reporting...
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Posted: December 07, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »I don’t know about you, but I have become aware of a new James Bond themed quiz show on Amazon Prime, but despite my affection for 007 in his many incarnations, almost as many as the Doctor Whos, I still haven’t made the time to watch the show despite Scotland’s national treasure Brian Cox, not the astronomer, presenting the quiz. The show gives nine pair of everyday people the chance of winning up...
