Monthly Archives: January 2024
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Posted: January 24, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »I’m just back from a break from the dreich, but no sooner am I back than airplanes can’t land because of high winds and the entire rail network of Scotland closes down. It’s not a great advertisement for life in these isles, but for some it’s a grand place to come. On of those is a bit hairy! There’s a large Ukrainian brown bear that’s found a haven here. The poor beast had been traumatised and...
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Posted: January 09, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the pudding-race!
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Scotland’s National Bard, whose work is celebrated around the world. And on Burns Night it is traditional to entertain friends and read out the great man ‘s work and address the pudding. And he great chieftain o’the pudding race is the haggis, but have you ever tried to make it? Well...
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Posted: January 07, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »If you want to have that Burns Night experience throughout the winter, but without the enormous calories intake can I make a little suggestion? Once upon a time I did cooking for a living, I was very young, but the habit has stuck. And I do almost all the cooking in our household, and I love making soup in winter. It’s such a warmer in the dreich. So why not try your hand at neeps and tatties soup...
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Posted: January 06, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »There’s nothing more Scottish than oats and whisky and the good people at Scotts know this well. On their pack for many a long year they have featured a brawny, good looking man about to heave a shot putt. It was based on Jay Scott, a world highland games champion. Handsome Jay was a farmer as well as an athlete lived on the island of Inchmurrin on Loch Lomond, that his family still own. Indeed the...
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Posted: January 05, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »It’s amazing where lost stuff turns up. A couple of years ago I lost my gold wedding ring and as I’d been gardening it was natural to think that I’d lost it while doing stuff outside. I enlisted a neighbour and a metal detector, but despite hours of tracking backwards and forwards it was a no go as we have ancient tamarisk which is a so and so to get around. Then the next days I looked in a mixing...
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Posted: January 03, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »You can always tell when we are approaching Burns Night as the airwaves and newspapers are awash with haggis stories. At the moment you can get tinned haggis, vegetarian haggis, deep-fried haggis, battered deep fried haggis, haggis bon bons, vegetarian haggis, haggis burger, haggis Moroccan style, Haggis pakora, haggis lasagne and deep-fried haggis balls as featured by the TV's Hairy Bikers. ...
