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Posted: June 24, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Avid readers of this blog would know that I almost entirely focus on good news from Scotland and the rest of these isles, but sometimes there is a story that pulls at the strings of the heart and warms the spirit. Late last year we went to visit friends in Carcassonne and they organised a wonderful day out. It was a day out with rescue donkeys. You paid the sanctuary owner a smallish fee, 70 Euros...
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Posted: June 18, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Well Swifties did it. They made Edinburgh jump in the rip roaring Taylor Swift concerts at Murrayfield where each time 73,000 highly energised fans made so much impact on the ground that it registered with seismologists 6 kilometres away. Altogether there were 220,000 fans over the three days of the concerts and it is official that they made the earth move. According to the boffins the maximum amplitude...
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Posted: June 11, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Well if you’ve got half a million quid burning a hole in your pocket I have just the present for father’s Day. it’s an island with a small house and 89 acres of wild scrubland. You won’t be troubled by neighbours, but you will see plenty of great skuas, kittiwakes, shags and seagulls. And you might get a bit thirsty as there is no natural drinking water on the island and the wind can get...
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Posted: June 06, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Switfties are up and at it. The fans of the immensely popular Taylor Swift are about to get Swiftified as the star kicks off her Eras tour of these isles with three nights at Murrayfield stadium in Edinburgh. The city is agog with excitement and I am told that fans are draining their bank accounts to buy Swift merchandise. And each night almost 73,000 fans will fill the Scottish Rugby home ground...
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Posted: May 28, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Now as regular readers of this blog know I am a massive fan of the Great Scot Sir Andy Murray and it is with a heavy heart I have to say that the end of the road now looks to be in sight. He was set to face his old adversary Stan Wawrinka the Swiss three times grand slam winner in the first round of the French Open tennis and Andy was blasted off the court. I saw them play each other just before...
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Posted: May 23, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »You’ll most likely remember that last year that a tree by Hadrian’s Wall which featured in Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves way back in 1992 was cut down by some nasty so and so. Well someone has now been charged for the crime. Trees are a highly significant part of our natural heritage and many people described the chopping down of the Sycamore Gap tree as “murder.”A bit strong...
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Posted: May 21, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »For those of a romantic disposition the arrival of the long-awaited third series of Bridgerton was the event they longed for and it landed on Netflix this last week. If you haven’t already binged your way through the first two series then we here James Pirie can sincerely recommend it, but mostly for selfish reasons as I will talk about shortly. The series is a rom-com and it follows two...
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Posted: May 20, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »If you are visiting Edinburgh and the dock area you’ll most likely know about the Royal Yacht Britannia, which was featured on the TV series The Crown, which was last year voted as Best UK attraction. But the historic dockyard area has other ships to take a gander including the SS Explorer which has been previously been hidden from public view. This is a historic ship that is a wondrous kind of time...
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Posted: May 17, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Now if you’ve read my blog before you will know that I and the missus are ardent fans of that Great Scot, Sir Andy Murray and his glorious achievements at a time when the greatest players of tennis, ever, where all playing at the same time. He is a former World Number 1, holder of three Grand Slam titles and two Olympic Gold Medals and forty-six career titles. Now he’s back on the trail of more titles...Read more » -
Posted: May 16, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
I got several messages this last week or so saying: ‘Did you see the Northern Lights?’ And I had to answer no to every single one of them. We had gone on a holiday to Norway in 2023 to see the Aurora Borealis as it should be known and we had seen the lights, but not in all their glory. It was rather as a pale, ghostly light which only became coloured in a photograph taken with a long exposure of say...Read more »
