Monthly Archives: August 2025
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Posted: August 30, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »When I first took my youngest son to the USA I took him to a local eatery to acclimatise him to America. It was Seven Brothers an American institution and if you could have seen the look on his face when they brought the enormous meal it would startle you. The portions were generous beyond belief. But this week it has been three brothers in the news. They are the MacLeans from Edinburgh and they...
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Posted: August 28, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »If you are familiar with the Clydeside skyline, then you may have seen the Greenock Titan Crane? This monster mover was built in 1917 and now there are exciting proposals using the giant structure as the base for the nation’s longest city zipline, and who doesn’t love a zipline? There was a time when the power of shipbuilding in Glasgow was one of the foundations of wealth and security in Scotland....
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Posted: August 25, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »It took a turn by a singer song writer at the Edinburgh Fringe to reveal that there had been an impostor Palm Tree at the Royal Botanic Garden in the capital and instead of being a rare endangered species it was “as common as muck” and nothing special at all in the botanic world other than its age and girth. The palm tree in question had arrived in the nation in the 1790s, being loaded onto a ship...
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Posted: August 19, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »It used to be the case of just getting through it when you were doing “Dry January,” but now there are so many non-alcoholic options for getting through that grim month. For ages there has been alcohol-free beer which is now of terrific quality, according to my missus who is a devotee of zero beer. And there are numerous very low, or zero alcohol wines, which I have to say is not of the same standard...
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Posted: August 07, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Have you ever wondered how the animals from the distant shores of Australia would fare in Scotland’s wet and windy shores? Well you need wonder no more, because everyone’s idea of the second most cuddly inhabitant of the land of Oz, the wallaby lives here. The cuddliest is of course the koala! But the Koala needs eucalyptus trees which we lack. However, shortly after the end of the Second...
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Posted: August 04, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »It’s August it Must Be an Amber Weather Warning
Well Storm Floris, no that’s not Storm Florist is bashing across our shores, so that is a sure sign it is the summer holidays and the kids are off school. We can expect 90 mph winds seems. If you want to catch a train down the East Coast Mainline you can’t. If you want to go to the Fringe on the Beach you shouldn’t. If you are planning on flying from...
