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Posted: November 05, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Strangely enough I know a lot of Fionas, but the latest Fiona I hear is a bit of Greta Garbo kind of girl. She didn’t ask to be alone, or even rescued, when she was stranded at the bottom of a cliff for two years. But that’s because she was a sheep; and she’s now been rescued. I’m not sure if she knew she was lonely, even though the species is a flock animal, but she was dubbed “Britain’s Loneliest...
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Posted: October 30, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »As you all know the 31st is my son’s birthday, oops sorry, you didn’t know that, but it’s Halloween and the day of mischief. In fact that’s what we used to call it when I was a lad, Mischief Night. And woe betide any adult who had mortally offended us, especially if we had an egg or two. It’s the day before All Saints Day which is a very special day in the Christian calendar when goodness is set to...
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Posted: October 28, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »How long could you live alone at the bottom of a Scottish cliff without going completely baah mi? Two years perhaps? That’s what’s happened to a ewe which has been stranded, literally on the strand below a cliff in Scotland’s north east. She was first spotted two years ago and now she’s known as the nation’s loneliest sheep. A canoeist, not unlike like myself, was paddling along the coast of Sutherland...
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Posted: October 24, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Royal Mail International Standard and International Tracking and Signature Services
Australia and New Zealand, Caribbean, China (People's Republic), Africa, Asia, Central and South America, Far and Middle East
Wednesday 6 December
Cyprus and Malta
Thursday 7 December
Greece, Eastern Europe (except Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia) and Turkey
Friday 8 December
Czech Republic, Finland, Italy, Norway,
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Posted: October 14, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »This week the baby foxes are back. The missus went swimming and left her swim shoes outside the back door to dry and in the twilight the fox cubs seized their opportunity and grabbed the shoes. It seems they are teething and like a bit of soft plastic to chew. We came down the following morning to find only one of the shoes complete with a smelly little present inside the shoe. Cue lots of sighing...
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Posted: October 11, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Do you know someone who gulps down his food as if it’s going out of fashion, then he may be called a ‘ gannet’ that seabird with the ravenous reputation? But the feisty gannet is in fact a very fine member of the avian world and one that graces our seashores of the nation. And the world's largest colony of gannets is on Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth. Just last year the gannets on the rock, which...
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Posted: October 05, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Did you know that a ship’s canvas sails used to be made out of flax? Long before the advent of polyester and its sister materials the wind power of old was harnessed by this old fashioned plant, which used to be a staple crop in Scotland. Now with the world focused on trimming carbon footprints and changing our ways the crop is getting a reboot, it’s now Flax 2.0.
Flax is used to make linen and canvas...
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Posted: October 03, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Herend… eth the Lesson
Some things are a luxury and some luxuries turn out to be essential, but even something you bought for £1, can be a pain in the Trossachs and especially if that something was valued at £2 million and then ends up costing you £150,000 to get rid of!
That is exactly what has happened to the wave machine that was to be used off Orkney to power 2,000 homes with cheap renewable electricity...
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Posted: September 18, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »I’m in shock at the moment, I was cleaning the missus’s pride and joy, her DeLonghi Magnifica coffee making machine, and it managed to get mangled it in a way the manufacturers might has said was inventive. So I’ll be forming an orderly queue at the telephone for when they open on this grey Monday morning. They pick them up and take them back to the repair shop for fixing, no roving engineers...
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Posted: September 17, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »And now, the end is near And so I face the final curtain My friends, I'll say it clear I'll state my case of which I'm certain
Barbara Dickson the beloved Scottish singer and National Treasure is about to go on her very last tour after 60 years on the hoof from stage to stage and perhaps those words are appropriate to her too. It’s a journey that’s taken her from the dingy folk clubs of Fife to...
