Monthly Archives: July 2025
-
Posted: July 29, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »In the week that the President of the United States of America visited his golf courses in Scotland the topic of whisky has been on everyone’s lips. For the distillers of the amber nectar, Scotch, the USA is a remarkably important market. The internet tells me that it accounts for about a quarter of all Scotch export sales by value. So when POTUS started talking about increasing tariffs on goods...
-
Posted: July 24, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Do you want an A Listed modern house or studio to live in for a mere £18,000 then your chance is just around the corner? It’s in what they call in the Brutalist style. You might have seen the Oscar nominated film The Brutalist which won the best actor award this year but they didn’t explain that the origin of the term comes from the French words for raw concrete. Now the A listed beauty is...
-
Posted: July 22, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »I don’t know if you saw that couple cuddling at the Coldplay concert in the USA, but they were caught by what the Americans call the ‘Kiss Cam.’ When they saw themselves on the stage screen they flung themselves to the floor as front man Chris Martin heckled them saying, “ they are either shy or having an affair,” and guess what- they weren’t shy.
But at Glasgow’s newest festival the kiss cam didn’t...
-
Posted: July 21, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Mary had a little lamb, its fleece as white as Snow,
And everywhere that Mary went , the lamb was sure to go
If like me you’ve have wrestled with a full size sheep, or large lamb you will know that they are amongst the most cussed animals for not doing what you want them to do. And their hooves are nasty weapons. My experience was with an escaped hogget, or yearling lamb and she was a wrong ‘un,terrified...
-
Posted: July 20, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »The Granite City Aberdeen this week is the home to the biggest free tourist attraction in Scotland , it’s The Tall Ships Races where some 50 tall ships will be taking part with their 2,000 crew from distant place like Oman and Uruguay. It’s such a big event, despite the inclement weather this year that it will attract some 400,000 visits, which doesn’t mean that many individuals as they count return...
-
Posted: July 19, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Are you allergic to cats, or allergic to the people who complain about cats? These days the missus just thinks of animals as a tie, stopping us travelling, but we all need animals in our lives I think and that seems to be the case with Mo the cat , a popular female in Newtongrange, Midlothian, who was recently banned from a local supermarket after a complaint. It’s somewhere I know well as I used to...
