Monthly Archives: February 2024
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Posted: February 27, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »I am a great fan of the feel good Apple + TV show Ted Lasso, which if you haven’t seen it I thoroughly recommend. Ted is the most optimistic person ever, in fact he is almost pathologically so. His smile is always pasted on and his cookie cooking is sublime. The premise for the show is that Lasso, a second rate American Football coach from the US Midwest, is brought in to manage an English Premier...
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Posted: February 22, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Now that Mother’s day is round the corner, it’s on the 10th March this year, have you thought about buying your mum or woman in your life a lovely bunch of blooms, or bouquet of flowers? Well if you want to be a thoughtful giver pause a moment to think where those lovely blooms come from and does it matter? And of course the answer is yes. We don’t live in a climate where you can grow flowers at this...
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Posted: February 20, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »It’s pretty warm just now, but I’ve caught the weather forecast for the end of the week and next and it’s less rosy and more ferocious, so passengers on the so called “Polar Express” will be looking out their thermals, hats, gloves, scarves and packing extra togs for the journey. The West Highland Line between Oban and Glasgow has gained honorary membership of the Arctic Circle as the temperatures...
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Posted: February 19, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Well that’s Saint Valentine’s Day in the rear view mirror and now there’s a gap in the heady gift buying schedule of us mere mortals. So I thought I should have a look at the way the world is turning and take a gander at Artificial Intelligence. Usually I take the photographs for this blog myself, as I don’t want to pay copyright charges, but this time I used generative A I to produce some pictures...
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Posted: February 09, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »I know of several hotels where walking into the lobby can induce a feeling of tartan induced vertigo as everything is covered, including the reception desk, in Scottish plaid AKA tartan. It’s been around a long time, the first mention of tartan was in 1538, but now there are thought to be around 7,000 unique tartans in the world and even former US President Obama and Hello Kitty have their own tartan...
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Posted: February 05, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »What do you get for the person who has everything, but expects a wonderful freebie, no not your other half, but Hollywood A listers? Well quite a lot actually. The celeb guest at the Oscars get a goodie bag worth $125,000! Yes they get a bag that would put a deposit on a house in this country, mad isn’t it? It gets ever madder. Such is the global search for high end goodies the goodie bag sourcers...
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Posted: February 02, 2024Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Can you hear that? Tick, tock, tick tock. It’s the sound of February and the lurching into sight of that modern behemoth St Valentine’s Day. Love it or loathe it you’d better get your skates on because you can bet that your beloved expects something nice on the day. You might get away with a funny card, but as they note in the classic nothing says undying love more clearly than a folded piece of cardboard...
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Posted: February 01, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »This week a macaque monkey couldn’t take the stress of the mating season and was offski from his wildlife park home in the highlands in Cairngorms. He strayed into neighbouring gardens and went nuts attacking local bird feeders. The macaque went ape when he was part of a band of 30 monkeys and experts think he was feeling the heat in the troupe as the dominant male sought to win over all the single...
