Monthly Archives: August 2024
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Posted: August 21, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Back in the day when I was talking to and filming emerging rock bands in America the stories I heard were all so familiar. A band would sign to a label and get and advance. Every band wanted an advance, but the advance was just a loan against future royalties. Every time they went into a studio or had a beer in the studio that would be taken off the advance. So even a big band with a $1 million...
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Posted: August 20, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »As a coastal dweller I am fully aware of the ferocity of seagulls. My next door neighbour has a sign in their house saying: “I’m as happy as a seagull with a stolen chip.” Gulls are both elegant and super flyers, inspiration for the iconic Spitfire war plane, but they are also sometimes a darn nuisance. Recently they disrupted Royal mail deliveries by dive bombing posties delivering letters, but now...
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Posted: August 16, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »I think the owner of a well known budget airline has been eating far too often at an all you can eat buffet. My favourite used to be a local Chinese restaurant which had a staggering array of goodies, and to be quite frank, not so goodies. Yes one of those eateries where you can watch the clientele stagger to their seat holding plates in danger of collapse from the weight of scran on the plate. Now...
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Posted: August 15, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »A young woman has got so fed up with modern life that’s she’s remortgaged her house, rented it out and moved into a storage container. The shipping container has been refurbished into a basic home complete with a second hand kitchen and bath, but no toilet. Water is supplied courtesy of nature from rainwater harvesting system, i.e. a barrel and pipe from the roof! The young woman bought seven acres...
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Posted: August 13, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »The making of fine whisky, the original amber nectar, is incredibly traditional but it’s also an area of innovation and excellence. Fine distillers are forever looking for new ideas to make their product even more delicious and exceptional. And capture more of that whisky connoisseur market round the world. So now one long established Highland distillery has created a new nectar aged in American white...
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Posted: August 12, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »I hope you like my picture of a member of the thistle family; I have to say that’s some thistle!
Well Sir Andy Murray has finally retired from the tennis tour, the Olympics and the Great Scot is going to spend more time with his four children, three Grand Slam titles and two Olympic Gold Medals. He has been both a pleasure and agony to watch since 2007. I haven’t had too much time to watch the Olympics...
