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Posted: January 24, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »I’m just back from a break from the dreich, but no sooner am I back than airplanes can’t land because of high winds and the entire rail network of Scotland closes down. It’s not a great advertisement for life in these isles, but for some it’s a grand place to come. On of those is a bit hairy! There’s a large Ukrainian brown bear that’s found a haven here. The poor beast had been traumatised and...
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Posted: January 09, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the pudding-race!
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Scotland’s National Bard, whose work is celebrated around the world. And on Burns Night it is traditional to entertain friends and read out the great man ‘s work and address the pudding. And he great chieftain o’the pudding race is the haggis, but have you ever tried to make it? Well...
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Posted: January 07, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »If you want to have that Burns Night experience throughout the winter, but without the enormous calories intake can I make a little suggestion? Once upon a time I did cooking for a living, I was very young, but the habit has stuck. And I do almost all the cooking in our household, and I love making soup in winter. It’s such a warmer in the dreich. So why not try your hand at neeps and tatties soup...
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Posted: January 06, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »There’s nothing more Scottish than oats and whisky and the good people at Scotts know this well. On their pack for many a long year they have featured a brawny, good looking man about to heave a shot putt. It was based on Jay Scott, a world highland games champion. Handsome Jay was a farmer as well as an athlete lived on the island of Inchmurrin on Loch Lomond, that his family still own. Indeed the...
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Posted: January 05, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »It’s amazing where lost stuff turns up. A couple of years ago I lost my gold wedding ring and as I’d been gardening it was natural to think that I’d lost it while doing stuff outside. I enlisted a neighbour and a metal detector, but despite hours of tracking backwards and forwards it was a no go as we have ancient tamarisk which is a so and so to get around. Then the next days I looked in a mixing...
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Posted: January 03, 2024Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »You can always tell when we are approaching Burns Night as the airwaves and newspapers are awash with haggis stories. At the moment you can get tinned haggis, vegetarian haggis, deep-fried haggis, battered deep fried haggis, haggis bon bons, vegetarian haggis, haggis burger, haggis Moroccan style, Haggis pakora, haggis lasagne and deep-fried haggis balls as featured by the TV's Hairy Bikers. ...
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Posted: December 22, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
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Posted: December 19, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Elvish is In the Building
And just for your delight through the questionable magic of Artificial intelligence I’ve created an ELVISH Presley to cheer you through the last few days of frantic activity in the festive season. So for The Wonder of You we’ve got a Santa’s sack full of goodies. Just don’t step on Santa’s Blue Suede Shoes so we can create an Unchained Melody of great value. And because...
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Posted: December 17, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Well Lady Kim and Sir Andy Murray certainly know how to go about a top notch, or should I say ace, family Christmas. They had that grand old lady of the kitchen Mary Berry show up and film a Christmas cooking special at their Cromlix Hotel in Scotland. They bought it the year of Andy’s first Wimbledon win in 2013, I remember it well my missus was in the crowd and she fainted from the heat. It’s a red-head...
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Posted: December 15, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Have you ever found anything interesting on your garden fork or spade, well me neither? But 70 years ago a schoolboy was digging up potatoes in the gardens of his school in Fife and dug up what the thought was a spud, but it was far from that. It was in fact a 4,000 year old treasure. The lad was being punished for a misdemeanour, but he found a genuine piece of ancient history. The “spud” was in...
