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I think the owner of a well known budget airline has been eating far too often at an all you can eat buffet. My favourite used to be a local Chinese restaurant which had a staggering array of goodies, and to be quite frank, not so goodies. Yes one of those eateries where you can watch the clientele stagger to their seat holding plates in danger of collapse from the weight of scran on the plate. Now...

A young woman has got so fed up with modern life that’s she’s remortgaged her house, rented it out and moved into a storage container. The shipping container has been refurbished into a basic home complete with a second hand kitchen and bath, but no toilet. Water is supplied courtesy of nature from rainwater harvesting system, i.e. a barrel and pipe from the roof! The young woman bought seven acres...

The making of fine whisky, the original amber nectar, is incredibly traditional but it’s also an area of innovation and excellence. Fine distillers are forever looking for new ideas to make their product even more delicious and exceptional. And capture more of that whisky connoisseur market round the world. So now one long established Highland distillery has created a new nectar aged in American white...

I hope you like my picture of a member of the thistle family; I have to say that’s some thistle!

Well Sir Andy Murray has finally retired from the tennis tour, the Olympics and the Great Scot is going to spend more time with his four children, three Grand Slam titles and two Olympic Gold Medals. He has been both a pleasure and agony to watch since 2007. I haven’t had too much time to watch the Olympics...

Edinburgh’s iconic Lothian buses have lots of fans, but not many people buy one of the harlequin livery double-decker giants decked out in their  madder, that’s a kind of dark red, and cream livery. But that’s exactly what one Australian couple did! They bought a number 16, a 1960’s Lothian Leyland Atlantean, after discovering it online rotting in a garden, as you do! Lothian Buses can trace its...

Now I was browsing the website of Scottish Farmer, no I’m not a farmer- just farm curious, and I was surprised to see so many farm weddings. One happy couple had covered their tractors in the tartan of the great Doddie Weir and generally it was all kilts a go go. Very warm and uplifting it was. But it’s   because we are deep into the wedding season and hardly a hint of summer rain in any the photos...

It is the season for weddings and did you get your invitation to the wedding of the year yet? Well neither did I, missing out on meeting the 14,000 guest at the nuptials of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant, covered in every newspaper in the world and now on this blog. The Ambani wedding is rumoured to have cost some $600 million, which is rather more than mine did in 2015! She is, Radhika not my missus...

Last year  in July when me and the missus went to see the unlikely double header Barbenheimer, Barbie and Oppenheime, the film theatres  were  full of wet, steaming people as the weather was appalling. We had horizontal rain for days. We went to one barbeque conducted entirely inside with gazebo islands in the garden lashed by rain. If you got stuck in one of those islands you had to get soaked...

Not far from Ullapool and Lochinver  home of Highland Stoneware is the Monro rich area of Torridon in the Highlands which was the home of Callum the red deer who became hand tame and a popular favourite with tourist. However, it was this friendliness that was his downfall.   Callum was a wild animal who became a bit of a local legend and would haunt Torridon’s Beinn Eighe car park eating snacks...

Well I was thinking about James Pirie and our long history of service, since 1890 by the way, and I thought, well who knows us best?  So I thought let’s have a look at a few reviews and see what they say about us. So here are some unedited reviews for your information. On the web page they come across as stars, but when you cut and paste they appear as percentages. So FIVE STAR is 100% and FOUR STAR...