Monthly Archives: September 2024
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Posted: September 29, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »If you want to make music from nature would you go the Antarctic and ask to be marooned for the day on a volcanic island with just the penguins for company? One Scottish composer did just that with the Royal Navy and the British Antarctic Survey. The musician is a native of Edinburgh and he wanted to track in audio and on film the changing nature of the cold continent. I am a big fan of the frozen...
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Posted: September 25, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Are you old enough to remember the BBCs Balamory from CBeebies? It’s been a while and it was cancelled back in the balmy days of 2005, before financial crashes, COVID and the wars dominating headlines. Balmory was actually set in Tobermory in Argyll and Bute. It was a pretty dream of a place, all pastels and oddball characters working out complicated, but heart warming problems. Well it’s going to...
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Posted: September 10, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »After a marvellous playing career Sir Andy Murray the Great Scot retired just a few weeks ago at the Paris Olympics. He went out on a high with Dan Evans, but missed out on the U S Open which finished on Sunday. But the deuce of a questions is, will retirement drive the tennis ace nuts? And the answer surprisingly is not at all. One nature’s great obsessives Andy’s found a couple of new obsessions...
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Posted: September 09, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Are you happy where you live?
Do you worry that other places are more fun, safer to live in, cheaper, or more fashionable?
Well there are always experts to help you get a fix on how you should feel and they have determined that a Scottish city is the “happiest,”whatever that means, in the whole of the United Kingdom, and that city is Inverness! It scored nearly 8 out of 10 and was a “happier” place...
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Posted: September 03, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »The Galloway Hoard is an immensely rich and famous assortment of silver and gold valuables from the age of the Vikings. The Hoard was unearthed by metal detectorists, like Mackenzie Crook, in 2014 at Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire. The gold and silver weigh in at some 5kg and some of it wrapped in well preserved textiles from the period. With ever more cutting edge techniques revealing the fascinating...
