Monthly Archives: October 2024
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Posted: October 29, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »One of the great problems of the modern age is rubbish, trash, garbage or anything else you call it and what we do with it. There was a scandal a while back about plastic waste being shipped off to the third world and there being burnt. And one of the biggest culprits is fashion. The fashion industry produces 92 million tonnes of textile waste each year, most of which ends up in landfills. And if you...
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Posted: October 27, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »As we live beside the beach we are forever seeing those people with their electronic wands searching the ground for valuables and historic artefacts. They call themselves detectorists and they often make a valuable contribution to the nation’s history. And in Peebles one very lucky detectorist found an amazing hoard of Bronze Age treasures from 800- 1,000 BC. The find was a made up of more than 500...
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Posted: October 25, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »In my last blog I wrote about the old custom of hazel nut burning to determine if you were marrying a wrong’un, but there are many other customs at this time of year. How about kale pulling? In the old days kale was often thought of as animal feed , but now with its lustrous dark leaves it’s regarded as a super food and many a doctor will tell you to eat as much of it as you can get down you...
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Posted: October 25, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »It’s well known that Great Scot Sir Andy Murray is generous of himself, his time and his purse and recently he demonstrated just how generous he is. After his fabulous career in tennis where he might well have been our greatest ever sportsman after winning three Grand Slam titles, two Olympic gold medals and a silver, without ever being the best naturally talented player in the world. Now he’s taken...
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Posted: October 24, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »The Americans are mad about Halloween, but not so much in my family as my son was born on the 31st October and so he’s had too many Halloween themed parties to be thrilled by the event. But for the rest of us the day is something we always remember from our youth, when we might have called it “Mischief Night”. But I guess that was just because I was a pretty mischievous child, oops!
Across the...
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Posted: October 17, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »As you know many great and good things originate in St Andrews and the latest is a discovery in an ancient city in Jordan.
Are you a fan of the movie character Indiana Jones? Do you remember the scene with the ancient Knight Templar and the Holy Grail? Do you hanker after archaeology finds? Then the ancient remains in Petra, used in that scene, may be your bag. There you will find the majestic Nabataean...
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Posted: October 16, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Welcome to the Autumn, the season of Autumn mists and mellow fruitfulness and of course Tartan! The plaid is in fashion and on the way back again, whether it’s on the catwalk or the red carpet, the second most famous of Scotland’s products is on the march. The Princess of Wales is a proud wearer of the weave, she did go to St Andrews University after all, and as everyone knows James Pirie was founded...
