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Black Friday an Apology For Being GREAT!

Black Friday Deals on James Pirie -  We Are Already Brilliant

In a week where Black Friday  is set to be more popular than Christmas week for holiday shopping, we are ready for the rush.  Some 75% of British shoppers rank price as the most important factor in their purchasers and with our special offers, sometimes as much as half off normal prices we believe...

Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh

Searching for the Meaning in Gifts

The wise men brought three gifts. The gold we know about but Frankincense seems to be a form of oil that we might inhale via a vapouriser to induce calm and myrrh is also an essential oil. So in today’s terms with the absence of gold they don’t seem that exotic any more. And that’s especially true if you watched the Top Gear Special in...

Last Minute Gifts are the Worst Christmas Gifts of All Time- OFFICIAL

Think Ahead: Avoid Last Minute Shopping Disasters

A major bank has revealed that all the worst gifts we receive were the result of last minute panic at the shops. Barclays commissioned the survey and amongst the shockers was that one in ten of us leave their Christmas shopping till the day itself! No wonder a similar survey by internet...

Happiness Survey Puts Scotland Ahead

 Think Tank Says Scots ‘Get it Right’

 A think tank has found out that Scotland is a terrific place to live, something its inhabitants could have told them, unless they were living in North Lanarkshire which was Scotland’s lowest ranked place to live, at 147 out of 170 places in the UK. This beat all those rich, plush southern places in the Home Counties.

Best...

 Red Squirrel Down

Cute, Small, Red and Agile

A thug has shot a red squirrel near Lockerbie and it has triggered a police investigation as these marvellous creatures are a protected species.

Scotland is home to some eighty five per cent of the world’s red squirrel population and this endangered animal has a difficult enough time of it already.

They are quick and agile and spend more time aloft than...

In Flanders Field

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch;...

Owl Grabs a Helicopter Lift

A short -eared owl was this week flown to safety off an oil rig. No it hadn’t been earning extra cash as a roustabout, or delivering mail like Harry Potter’s owl Hedwig. Instead its inner sat nav had gone awry and sent it out a hundred miles to sea. The owl was on its last legs when it found its way onto the oil rig as the only landing place in thousands of square miles...

Back to the Future- Re-United with a Wallet

Teenager Now a Grandfather Gets His Wallet Back in a DeLorean Moment

It’s one of those heart warming stories you only occasionally hear about. It’s how a young British man was in a ski bar in France and how he got distracted and lost his wallet and then presto 55 years later it gets returned to him. Could it be true, or one of those urban legends we used...

UKhisimusi omuhle, Vrolijk Kerstfeest, Joyeux Noël, Frohe Weihnachten and Happy Christmas

The Countdown Has Begun

Now you might recognise how to say Happy Christmas in French or German from the above, but did you spot Zulu and Flemish. Well good for you! Yes it’s that time of year again where you have to start paying attention to those notices in the post office about the last days to post your letters...

The Pound in Your Pocket

Glasgow Has a New Currency

It’s been years since that phrase was coined by Prime Minister Harold Wilson and we all take it for granted that we all have the same currency in our handbag or wallet, but an enterprising group have set up a local currency the Govenhill Pound. It follows the launch of local currencies in the south, in Brixton, Bristol and Totnes. It is designed...