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Posted: February 26, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.Well it’s rather happier return than the lines of the late and very great Robert Louis Stevenson, but we are home from the sea and a very great voyage into the frozen north it was. And it reminded me of the strong, strong links between our isles and the Viking...
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Posted: February 26, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Sir Alexander Fleming
Bacteriologist and discoverer of penicillin
“A good gulp of whisky at bedtime - it’s not very scientific, but it helps.”
I was looking up quotes of the great and the good and this one by Alexander Fleming struck me as most apposite for a bedtime dram. In 1928 he discovered what was later named Penicillin from the mould Penicillium Rubens. This discovery is described as the "single...
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Posted: February 07, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Well, well Valentine’s day is almost upon us and it’s surprising how from small beginnings a giant tradition has arisen. In Holland it’s Valentijnsdag, in Sweden it’s Alla Hjärtans Dag (All Hearts Day), in Germaany it’s Valentinstag and in France it’s rather grandly La fête des amoreux, Le Saint-Valentin. And in case you are suffering from amnesia the day is the 14th of February. And of course there...
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Posted: February 01, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »There’s whole debate about log burners at the moment as to whether they are healthy or appropriate, but we love ours and it’s been the saving of us this winter and it is very modern and as clean as possible. As we are an upside down house, beside the sea it’s been on all this winter to keep our gas and lekky down and it is mightily romantic to curl up before a fire of an evening. Plus knowing we are...
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Posted: January 30, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »It’s a funny thing how you meet someone these days, but whether you’ve been together for 50 years or 5 weeks it’s important not to ignore Valentine’s Day. People always ask how I met the missus ten years ago now, but I always say it was how I asked her to marry me that was the important bit.
You have to show a bit of savvy. It was second time round for both of us and so I wanted to demonstrate I was...
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Posted: January 25, 2023Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the pudding-race!
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Scotland’s National Bard, whose work is celebrated around the world. And on Burns Night it is traditional to entertain friends and read out the great man ‘s work and address the pudding. And he great chieftain o’the pudding race is the haggis, but have you ever tried to make it? Well...
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Posted: January 19, 2023Categories: James Pirie NewsRead more »
O flower of Scotland, the lion that is Sir Andy Murray. Fighting back against the ever so slightly obnoxious Thanasi Kokkinakis and a crowd that can be more than slightly biased being noisy and rude. The Flying Scotsman, I will leave no cliché under used here is a living marvel. The real Braveheart, with sinews of steely strength and to take Jurgen Klopp out of context: “ A mentality monster” has triumphed...
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Posted: January 18, 2023Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »We Laid the Floor but Didn’t Drink the Whisky
In 1887 three years before the establishment of James Pirie a couple of craftsmen left a message in a whisky bottle under the floorboards they had just laid in a posh Edinburgh house. And pretty good those floorboards must have been as they lay undisturbed until last November when a plumber was having a root and discovered the message and the bottle at...
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Posted: December 31, 2022Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »A Happy and Safe Hogmany
and a
Fun Sprogmanay with the Kids
The weather forecast is grim but we are no stranger to that, so safe Hogmany and Happy First Footing.
It’s been an interesting ride in 2022 and I hope that Santa brought you everything that you wanted.
We here at James Pirie thank you for your valued custom in the year and look forward to all you and all of us having a healthy, prosperous...
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Posted: December 23, 2022Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR
MAY THE FESTIVE SEASON BE TRULY FESTIVE
AND THE NEW YEAR FULL OF GOOD HEALTH AND PROSPERITY
Card by my daughter Geraldine
