When Thank You Seems to Be the Hardest Word
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 bowl in the kitchen and saw it had fallen in while I was making one of my favourites oat bread, I’ll do you the recipe soon. Well blow me down I thought! It was the best outcome. It had happened before when we first moved into the house. Being by the sea windows are tricky and when we couldn’t open a very large slider we called in the original fitter and for a king’s ransom he refitted the door. I said: “How long is the guarantee on the window,” and he replied, “As long as it takes the cheque to clear!” Nothing like James Pirie levels of service then. Then I got a plaintive phone call that evening, had I seen his wedding ring?
Now I could have said ’off with you’ after the cheque remark, but his marriage was needing saving and I got stuck in. I divided the garden into squares, searched and found nothing. I then did the same thing on the small gravel drive we have and found his black wedding ring among the gravel. It had taken five hours. He picked it up with an airy wave while his missus sat in the car with a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp. No-one said the magic words, “thank you!”
But a big thank you has been said to an eleven year old girl in Aberdeen when she found a handbag on the beach. It had been stolen from an office and thrown into the River Don thirty years ago when its owner was a mere fifty-one years old. It was quite a blow at the time as the bag had some £240 in it.
The Eleven year old examined the contents and then turned sleuth and tracked down its now eighty-one year old owner. There were pens, coins, lipstick, earrings, a key and tablets inside when the bag was found. And vitally something like credit cards that had expired in 1993. Using the power of the internet the young girl was able to track down the bag owner who was delighted by the find and expressed her gratitude.
Now we here at James Pirie also believe in the power of the internet to express our thanks to our loyal customers and bring you the very best of great crystal. And it is with great pleasure that I present to you these lovely traditional glasses that are a marvel to hold and warm the amber nectar in. They are the set of 6 Large Edinburgh Crystal Tumblers in prestigious presentation box by Royal Scot Crystal. Each one will allow for a very generous dram to celebrate Burns night this year and for decades to come.
