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Posted: February 26, 2017Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Scotland Back in the Car making Game –
East Lothian Company Makes Scottish Raptor
Did you know that the first automobile in the UK was built in Scotland? Well it was, but you wouldn’t know that from the current Scottish car industry, which until recently was non-existent. Now a tiny outfit in east Lothian is carrying the banner for auto engineering in the nation, making a car dubbed ’the raptor, ’...
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Posted: February 26, 2017Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Mothers’ Day March 26
Well it is in the UK Anyway
It seems I am afraid to go on the computer these days because some bright spark will have done something new and cute and it’ll make me feel old, I’m not really, and I’ll have go and have a lie down. The latest is a FaceBook emoticon for Mother’s Day. Now I’ll get points for knowing and occasionally using and an emoticon ;-) but really it seems if...
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Posted: January 31, 2017Categories: James Pirie News
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Posted: January 31, 2017Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
“Greek Thomson” House Gets a Facelift –
Holmwood Restored
Most of us have heard of legendary US architect Frank Lloyd Wright, even if only through the Simon and Garfunkel song, but how many of us have heard of our own man Alexander “Greek” Thomson, a pioneer in sustainable building, who is said to have greatly influenced Lloyd Wright. Thomson built his masterpiece back in 1857 for a rich paper...
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Posted: January 31, 2017Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Not Curling but Hurling-
Haggis Flinging World Championship
The prize is a year’s supply of haggis and the challenge is to throw the “great chieftain o the puddin'-race” more than 217 feet which is the current world record for haggis hurling. The world championship of this noble sport was held at the home of the Scottish Bard Robert Burns. This year the contestants huffed and puffed, but none could...
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Posted: January 31, 2017Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Acclaimed Artist Shows Blue Sky Thinking –
Hidden Painting Now Revealed
A Joan Eardley oil painting Glasgow Tenements, Blue Sky, 1954 had a valuable secret hidden for fifty years on its reverse side. It was an unfinished picture of a small flame haired boy that the artist had started and lost interest in. Instead she painted the tenement where the child lived and had that framed.
Two for One
The...
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Posted: January 31, 2017Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
New Mac for Old -
Mackintosh Building Rising from the Ashes
When the beautiful Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building went up in smoke in 2014 many feared for this the most outstanding icon of the Scottish genius. Many were dismayed by ultra modern plans to rebuild the library in the spirit of Macintosh, but not the style and so it was with relief that the powers that be decided to restore to...
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Posted: January 31, 2017Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
The Scottish Marco Polo
Inspiration for “The Man Who Would Be King”
I first came across Alexander Gardner in a novel by the great Scottish writer George MacDonald Fraser, who I once had the fortune to meet. Gardner was a larger than life figure dressed head to toe in the tartan of the79 Highland Regiment, including a tartan turban with an egret’s feather on top.
An Unlikely Hero
Gardiner was a scarred...
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Posted: January 25, 2017Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
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Happy Burns Night to all my Scottish and Scott-ish friends! #bellletstalk -
Posted: January 25, 2017Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
The Norwegians Are Coming –
Airline Creating Jobs
After a Dane snapping up much of the Highlands to protect the environment a Scandinavian airline called Norwegian has announced the creation of more than 100 jobs at Edinburgh airport.
Trans-Atlantic on a Budget
Norwegian is the third largest low-cost carrier in Europe and the second-largest airline in Scandinavia and it flies out of Gatwick to several...
