Monthly Archives: November 2024
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Posted: November 29, 2024
Read more »Yes dear readers we have a cavalcade of bargains and reductions to thrill your bank manager and delight the gift giver and receiver everywhere. And we have a new concept for you THE GOLD STAR! We all know that’s good because my primary teacher used to hand them out very irregularly for spectacular work.I don't like to brag but I had a few!
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There is up to 70% off many of the items in the sale...
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Posted: November 20, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »As you might know all blog writers are very partial to a survey, because it allows them a bit of wind under their writing wings and a chance to poke fun at surveys. However, sometimes one comes along that suggests something pretty big. And in the week that Typhoo tea filed for protection in insolvency comes the news that Gin and Tonics have overtaken tea as the nation’s favourite drink. The survey...
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Posted: November 17, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Once the glens rang to the sound of some wild and pretty hefty cattle called aurochs a breed of fearsome giants that were the ancestor of our modern cows and bulls. Now with the trend for re-wilding and even bringing species back from extinction it’s sort of going to happen to the auroch. Did you know there are plans to bring back dodos from DNA samples and woolly mammoths too, it’s a wild west...
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Posted: November 16, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Are you fond of a bit of seafood? I must admit that I am a late adopter of the fruits of the sea, but now I love them, but in moderation of course as they tend to be a bit dear. Last year we went to France and as part of the trip there was a stop-over in Dieppe and the highlight was a restaurant on a desolate dock road called the Comptoir A Huitres or the Oyster Counter. I have to tell you it was...
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Posted: November 15, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »This Black Friday we give a nod to the greatness of the national treasure that is whisky, which is one of the nation’s biggest exports. Last year Scotland exported over £5.6 billion worth of Scotch, which makes the nectar the world's top-selling spirit. Now on Barra in the Outer Hebrides they are taking advantage of this world wide liking of the spirit and opening a big new £12 million distillery which...
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Posted: November 12, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree” Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)
What a thought that is and I can say I am a huge fan of beautiful trees and when me and the missus go to those big gardens I always come back with a myriad photos of trees. Especially if the trees are champion trees, which means they are the largest specimen of the genus in the nation. Every year the powers that be in...
