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Posted: December 19, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
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...Last UK order datesfor guaranteed Christmas Delivery
UK Mainland
Standard Delivery – Sunday 21 December
Express Delivery – Monday 22 December (by 3pm)
Highlands and Islands
Standard Delivery – Friday 19 December
Express Delivery – Sunday 21 December(If you order after these dates, our warehouse will still be open and we will despatch your goods ASAP, but they may not arrive in time for -
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 19, 2025
Read more »Well winter’s here with something of a flourish with snow and sleet after yesterday’s fall down by the Cloudflare people which stopped a lot of internet traffic, which was luckily soon remedied by lots of people running round with their trousers on fire: Including here at James Pirie. Which was lucky what with the festive season approaching and the Friday that is Black hoving into view. But it hasn’t...
