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Posted: February 01, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »There’s whole debate about log burners at the moment as to whether they are healthy or appropriate, but we love ours and it’s been the saving of us this winter and it is very modern and as clean as possible. As we are an upside down house, beside the sea it’s been on all this winter to keep our gas and lekky down and it is mightily romantic to curl up before a fire of an evening. Plus knowing we are...
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Posted: January 30, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »It’s a funny thing how you meet someone these days, but whether you’ve been together for 50 years or 5 weeks it’s important not to ignore Valentine’s Day. People always ask how I met the missus ten years ago now, but I always say it was how I asked her to marry me that was the important bit.
You have to show a bit of savvy. It was second time round for both of us and so I wanted to demonstrate I was...
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Posted: January 25, 2023Categories: James Pirie NewsRead 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 19, 2023Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
O flower of Scotland, the lion that is Sir Andy Murray. Fighting back against the ever so slightly obnoxious Thanasi Kokkinakis and a crowd that can be more than slightly biased being noisy and rude. The Flying Scotsman, I will leave no cliché under used here is a living marvel. The real Braveheart, with sinews of steely strength and to take Jurgen Klopp out of context: “ A mentality monster” has triumphed...
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Posted: January 18, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »We Laid the Floor but Didn’t Drink the Whisky
In 1887 three years before the establishment of James Pirie a couple of craftsmen left a message in a whisky bottle under the floorboards they had just laid in a posh Edinburgh house. And pretty good those floorboards must have been as they lay undisturbed until last November when a plumber was having a root and discovered the message and the bottle at...
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Posted: December 31, 2022Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »A Happy and Safe Hogmany
and a
Fun Sprogmanay with the Kids
The weather forecast is grim but we are no stranger to that, so safe Hogmany and Happy First Footing.
It’s been an interesting ride in 2022 and I hope that Santa brought you everything that you wanted.
We here at James Pirie thank you for your valued custom in the year and look forward to all you and all of us having a healthy, prosperous...
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Posted: December 23, 2022Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR
MAY THE FESTIVE SEASON BE TRULY FESTIVE
AND THE NEW YEAR FULL OF GOOD HEALTH AND PROSPERITY
Card by my daughter Geraldine
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Posted: December 19, 2022Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Last order date guide
for delivery before Christmas
UK (Mainland)
Express Delivery - Tuesday 20 December (Midday)
And here are some songs to remind you, it’s almost the LAST day
Last Christmas I gave you my heartBut the very next day you gave it away
Maybe you're the last trainMaybe you're the last train home
Last night, last night,
I couldn't even get an answerTake the last train to Clarksville...
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Posted: December 16, 2022Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »If You Are Stuck at Home
I don’t know about you, but it has been near lethal to get out of the front door this week and the lane has been covered in ice. You take your life in your hands to merely venture to the post box to send those last minute cards, first class only now I’m afraid. But we are off to see the Northern Lights in Norway in February and so we have invested in the thingymabobs in the...
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Posted: December 13, 2022Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »You wait for one Santa and then four thousand come at once, no it is not the night bus it’s the great Santa Dash in Glasgow, celebrating the festive season in near near-freezing temperatures. It was the first run in three years after Covid and the proceeds went to charity. It’s a five kilometre course and I have a confession, I too once went on a Santa dash and it was fun, silly and hard work running...
