Monthly Archives: July 2024
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Posted: July 23, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Edinburgh’s iconic Lothian buses have lots of fans, but not many people buy one of the harlequin livery double-decker giants decked out in their madder, that’s a kind of dark red, and cream livery. But that’s exactly what one Australian couple did! They bought a number 16, a 1960’s Lothian Leyland Atlantean, after discovering it online rotting in a garden, as you do! Lothian Buses can trace its...
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Posted: July 21, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Now I was browsing the website of Scottish Farmer, no I’m not a farmer- just farm curious, and I was surprised to see so many farm weddings. One happy couple had covered their tractors in the tartan of the great Doddie Weir and generally it was all kilts a go go. Very warm and uplifting it was. But it’s because we are deep into the wedding season and hardly a hint of summer rain in any the photos...
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Posted: July 18, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »It is the season for weddings and did you get your invitation to the wedding of the year yet? Well neither did I, missing out on meeting the 14,000 guest at the nuptials of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant, covered in every newspaper in the world and now on this blog. The Ambani wedding is rumoured to have cost some $600 million, which is rather more than mine did in 2015! She is, Radhika not my missus...
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Posted: July 08, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Last year in July when me and the missus went to see the unlikely double header Barbenheimer, Barbie and Oppenheime, the film theatres were full of wet, steaming people as the weather was appalling. We had horizontal rain for days. We went to one barbeque conducted entirely inside with gazebo islands in the garden lashed by rain. If you got stuck in one of those islands you had to get soaked...
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Posted: July 04, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Not far from Ullapool and Lochinver home of Highland Stoneware is the Monro rich area of Torridon in the Highlands which was the home of Callum the red deer who became hand tame and a popular favourite with tourist. However, it was this friendliness that was his downfall. Callum was a wild animal who became a bit of a local legend and would haunt Torridon’s Beinn Eighe car park eating snacks...
