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Posted: December 15, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS
WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS
WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS
WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS
AND A
HAPPY NEW YEAR
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Posted: December 14, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »You are probably with me on your relationship with turtles, if they aren’t called Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michalangelo I don’t know a lot about them, but I am fairly sure that real sea going turtles do not eat pizza. But they can get lost and not in sewers and wind up on the shores of the nation, which has just happened. A walker on the Solway Coast near Southerness was minding her own business...
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Posted: December 09, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Are you a fan of gripping Police drama? If you are then you might have missed the hit of the Summer Department Q which I have written about before and which is returning for a new series in 2026. The cop drama is set in Argyle House one of the ugliest buildings in Edinburgh and many reckon it’s a blight on the landscape situated as it is in the shadow of the capital’s castle. The ‘monstrous carbuncle,’...
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Posted: December 08, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »After the hoo-ha that followed the British Antarctic Survey trying to name a ship by public voting Calmac the ferry operators have learned the lesson. There was to be no Boaty McBoatface moment. The saga began with a new survey ship being launched by the Science Museum down in London which gambled with allowing the general public to choose the name. Much banter and tom foolery ensued. Boaty eventually...
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Posted: December 08, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Come Mister Tallyman, tally me bananas
Daylight comes and me want to go home
Come Mister Tallyman, tally me banana
Daylight comes and me want go home (Jamaican Folk Song)
This particular story has happened a long way away from the nation, but it’s a fun one so I couldn’t resist it and the cruise ship in question, Iona, has a Scottish name. Bananas in the bay! Yes it’s true a load of bananas have...
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Posted: December 06, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Now if you live round the shores of these islands you will have noticed stuff happening on your sea horizons. It is the planting of wind turbines as we move to renewable energy. This involves giant windmills sometimes as tall as the Eiffel Tower. Everyone acknowledges this is kind of intermediate technology with floating turbines seemingly the future, but for the next 25 years these giants are going...
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Posted: December 05, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Now I know it’s a bit nitpicky, but is a seven legged octopus found on the beach in Scotland an octopus as the name means eight legs? Still it gives me the chance for a few tired old fish based chestnuts. There’s no plaice like home, the sole survivor, I’m not codding you, don’t be so crabby, it’s a load of pollock, sorry about these puns, skating on thin ice there. You are ‘welk ome’ you say...
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Posted: November 29, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Well I’m sitting here in my office facing the sea and the wind is howling and the rain is pelting across the sky and banging on the window demanding to be let in. But I’ve spent the autumn well and the house is pretty snug despite the beginnings of the winter. And it’s the same throughout the nation. Those responsible for connecting us all are implementing plans to keep everything going despite the...
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Posted: November 18, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Have you contacted all your friends and relatives yet to fish for a few ideas of what to buy people for Christmas 2025? I have started and it’s a head scratcher I can tell you. There are kids, grandkids, aunts, uncles and very good friends all to be sorted out. And with Black Friday this coming week we can hope for some bargains to ease the cost of living. And of course here at James Pirie we pride...
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Posted: November 17, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Are you a fan of the excellent TV series Outlander which has been rattling around the airwaves for a decade and is now is turning out to be a real boon to the nation? The so called ‘Outlander Effect’ is proving to be a driver of tourism into the many locations shown on the telly show. Now the writer of the historical sci-fi romp is to be honoured with a doctorate from the University of the Highlands...
