Monthly Archives: October 2025
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Posted: October 28, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »In another lifetime I was in the film and video business and we had a hit programme about cameras in Police cars and the loony behaviour of some motorists, all done by my pal Bill. We had things like “The Plonker with a Plank,” which featured a moped rider carrying a long piece of wood sideways on the roads, so essentially the plank filled the road. But even the plonker didn’t stop the motorway as...
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Posted: October 27, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Well that’s it -the clocks have gone back and we’re all adjusting to the new time. Animals have a harder time adjusting. My missus is nursing a friend who has had had an operation and she was driven mad yesterday by the friend’s six cats going mad with hunger because they hadn’t adjusted to the clock change. But such time shifting won’t have affected the newly released beavers in the north-west highlands...
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Posted: October 25, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »The future as they say is only ever a day away. And with the march of tech it’s hard to turn your eyes up from your screen to appreciate how fast things are going; and a lot of this change is coming from drones. I’ve had a bit of experience with these tiny flying machines. I had a German client when I was producing advertising films for foreign film makers and they wanted to fly a drone in two places...
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Posted: October 22, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »There was of course shrinkflation when because of economic pressures the size of servings or products got smaller, but now we have renaming, as cocoa has become so expensive our favourite chocolate bars can no longer be described as chocolate. Particularly two of the nations favourite the Club bar and the Penguin bar. It’s particularly ironic as the marketing slogan for the Club offering was: "If...
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Posted: October 21, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »It’s October, at least for a little while longer and autumn is fully upon us with named storms and internet outages. The Poet Keats harpooned the season in his poem To Autumn:
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
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Posted: October 06, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Glasgow celebrates the 850th anniversary this year since it was recognised as a Burgh, which was the royal recognition of the town. This allowed its transition into a strong trading entity and which helped the prosperity of the region. In AD 1175, King William the Lion granted Glasgow the much coveted Burgh status. The Burgh status was undone in the 1975 Act, but by then Glasgow was a huge city and...
