Monthly Archives: September 2025
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Posted: September 27, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »My neighbours have a lot of seaside paraphernalia and one of their wall plaques says: ” I’m as happy as a seagull with a stolen chip.” As a ranking of happiness I’m not sure how accurate a measure chips and seagulls are, because the birds are incredibly fractious, argumentative and downright horrible to each other in their mad competitive world. But despite falling bird population numbers gulls are...
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Posted: September 26, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »There are two ways to spell the nation’s breakfast food and only one of them is accurate, the other is a marketing device for easy spelling. So it’s not PORAGE it is PORRIDGE. I eat it every day in the winter, but I am far from a purist and add milk and a blob of honey to energise me for the morning. In the summer I don’t eat breakfast, unless away from home. Did you know that the world porridge...
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Posted: September 25, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Do you enjoy your job, is your profession a life’s work? A certain pilot who has just retired from flying to Orkney can answer in the affirmative after 21 years of island hopping for Loganair. Not only did the flyer enjoy the scenery he loved the chit and chat to the passengers which enlivened the short hops where he was both pilot and crew. Sometimes he a was also the baggage handler too.
The flights...
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Posted: September 24, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »You might have noticed a gap in the blogs. Well me and the missus took a sneaky week in Provence thanks to a friend with a pad in France. The weather was so unlike home, clear skies and starry starry nights. We managed to go to Aix en Provence twice, the first time because we got the day of the Cezanne tour wrong and had to go back the following day. But that was no hardship, only a 90 minute drive...
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Posted: September 13, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »There is wonderfully named organisation called the Fireball Alliance that tracks meteors and meteorites across the country and they have issued a plea for those wandering the hills and conquering Munros to look out for bits of debris from a pretty big space object that fell on the 3rd July this year. It wasn’t like the blips of light that you get from the very small meteorites that we...
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Posted: September 12, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »I’ve not been wowed by the release of a spin off to the great TV series Outlander, but that’s just because the characters can never be as interesting and multi-faceted as Jamie and Claire in the original, but for those who need their fix Blood of My Blood is streaming now. However, away from the enormous plasma screen, Hollywood is still exploring history with only the occasional tongue in cheek....
