Monthly Archives: April 2025
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Posted: April 30, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Cash in the Attic
Only last week I was on the horns of a dilemma writing about restored horns on a whisky tasting venue in the capital and today there is another whisky venue that is featuring a rare four stroke Victorian engine that that once kept the capital’s coppers cool. It was in a building that once housed the courthouse and jail called the Edinburgh Police Chambers and which is now going...
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Posted: April 27, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »In the week when a major supermarket has recalled my favourite sausages it is nice to have a fun story to report. There is news that shows that the world’s first purpose made football ground was in Scotland! As you might know the rules of football are jointly owned by the four home nations and they are leased to the bad boys of UEFA , so what was called compelling evidence about the origins of fooba...
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Posted: April 25, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Excuse the headline, but it’s one that I could not resist. For those who know the capital there’s a pair of unicorns on the parapet of the whisky experience just off the Edinburgh Esplanade and until very recently the beasties didn’t have horns. The building is a red brick edifice in the grandest style and built in mock Georgian Gothic as was the taste in the 19th century just a little bit before...
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Posted: April 19, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Now you might have heard of the hoo-ha that was set up over the sawing up of some of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s church pews, but the man is hardly ever out of the news even though he died nearly a hundred years ago. Well 1928 to be precise. But his gifts to Scottish culture are outstanding as is the value of his creations. Now in the news a set of cutlery that he designed has been sold at auction...
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Posted: April 13, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Now we all know about that well known” documentary” Jurassic Park has lessons about the recreation of dinosaurs and this week dinosaurs, Dire Wolves and Universal Studios which made the aforementioned “dinodoc” are all in the news.
Some Americans claim that they have “de-extincted” the Dire Wolf, as famously seen in the royalty succession documentary Game of Thrones, but generally speaking it isn’t...
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Posted: April 06, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »I am somewhat schizophrenic in my attitude to birds. I spend the entire winter feeding the little ones and the spring and summer trying to deter the large ones from despoiling the house and garden. Regular readers will know that we live beside the sea, right on the beach and there are twin horrors. seagulls and wood pigeons. A one legged seagull we call stumpy was trying to make a nest with its...
