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A family of cute kitchen Nessies

February 6, 2016 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Long time readers of In Pure Spirit might remember this cute kitchen Nessie. She was an ideal ladle for soup and chillis but maybe this Loch Ness monster was a little lonely.

Now there’s this baby Nessie for straining your tea. How cute!

It gets even better because OTOTO have designed a whole family of Nessies for your kitchen. The catch? You have to pre-order now and wait because they’re very popular and keep selling out.

I’ve actually seen the original Nessie ladle available in some high street retailers in recent months. This means the cute Loch Ness monster design has been a global hit. There’s no need to keep up with the neighbours but sometimes it is a little bit nice to have the fashionable things first. Want to be first with the Nessie ladles? You’ll need to pre-order.

There’s good news on the production front too. You can choose from three different colour combinations, the Nessies are heat resistant up to 200°C or 393 °F and are 100% BPA free. Baby Nessie is made from silicone and the other two from toughened nylon.

You can find out more about these kitchen Nessie’s here.

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A cute Loch Ness monster for your kitchen

January 27, 2015 by Andrew 1 Comment

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This is a rather cute Nessie is no monster. This Nessie is actually a ladle that would be happy swimming around in your stews, soups and perhaps even a batch or chilli or not.

You can see how the two might get confused. Here’s the side by side comparison of the two.

This Lessie is designed by OTOTO and can be bought from Animi Causa. Just click I need this Nessie Ladle.

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Are you tempted to add Nessie to your kitchen collection? Perhaps it would amuse your own little monsters?

Ghost-hunter finds mysterious Loch Ness picture

November 17, 2014 by Andrew 1 Comment

Does this picture show a monster in Loch Ness?

The photograph was taken by paranormal investigator Jonathan Bright and seems to show something other than a wave in the choppy waters of the Scottish loch.

Bright is a professional monster-hunter, who’s been on TV shows and even History Channel documentaries. He found the photograph three years after he took it as he’s spent months analysing thousands of his own surveillance of the area. He told the Express;

I investigate the paranormal but I also investigate legends and Nessie is one of them.

“Three years ago, I came to Scotland to investigate the Nessie legend and took thousands of photographs.

“It took me six months to look at them all and I found this one which I showed when I spoke at the Scottish Paranormal Festival in Stirling this week.

Bright is now expected in Edinburgh where he’ll search the capital for ghosts.

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What do you think? A fake? Just a rock peaking through the loch? Surely we’ve now seen enough scientific evidence to prove there’s no Nessie?

The Loch Ness monster appears in Europcar’s food map

November 7, 2013 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Car hire company Europcar have produced this animated food map of the United Kingdom. Viewers start at the top by John O’Groats and the Castle of Mey and can actually drive down the page, using their mouse wheel, until they get to Land’s End.

Along the way the car passes through or near to places like Stonehenge, the Cheddar Gorge, York Minster and Hadrian’s Wall. It’s really a tour of food, though, showing places like the Black Isle Brewery, Moffat Toffee Shop, Bradely’s Bakery, Tewkesbury Mustard, Cox & Baloney and the Town Mill Bakery.

It’s nice to see so much history on the map.

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You can find the interactive map of Britain’s Best Bites here.

Did you go for a ride? Any highlights? What’s missing? No haggis? No Blackpool Rock?

New photograph of the Loch Ness monster

August 7, 2012 by Andrew 2 Comments

A new photograph of what might be the Loch Ness monster has been published. The photograph shows an animal-like hump, with ripples that seem to suggest a turn, in the otherwise fairly still waters of Loch Ness.

There is a catch. The photograph was taken by George Edwards – who has hunted Nessie for 26 years and holds tours. Now, if anyone is going to be able to take a photograph of the Loch Ness monster then it’ll be someone like Edwards who is out on the waters, with a camera ready, more than anyone else. However, as Edwards isn’t a neutral – people will suggest his account his bias.

In the British newspaper, The Daily Mail, he says;

“It was slowly moving up the loch towards Urquhart Castle and it was a dark grey colour. It was quite a fair way from the boat, probably about half a mile away but it’s difficult to tell in water… I’m convinced I was seeing Nessie as I believe in these creatures. Far too many people have being seeing them for far too long.”

“The first recorded sighting was in 565AD and there have been thousands of eye witness reports since then… All these people can’t be telling lies. And the fact the reports stretch over so many years mean there can’t just be one of them. I’m convinced there are several monsters.”

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Do you think there is something in Loch Ness? Is it hundreds of years old or are there a family of them? Surely we’d have a better photograph by now.

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