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MCI’s advent calendar is finally finished for the year. We hope that it brought you some festive fun. Please remember that our offices are closed from the 23rd December 2023 and re-opening on the 4th January 2024. As we hang up our tool bags and pop our slippers on by…
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MCI would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, when it comes.
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MCI this week is delving into the world of Holiday sweets and treats. In the UK we traditionally enjoy figgy pudding or clootie dumpling in Scotland. These fruit rich puddings include spices that have many people thinking of the Holiday season. UK also enjoys mince pies – originally made with…
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MCI’s advent calendar pictures this week are reminding people that the Holidays aren’t just about getting presents under the tree, it’s also about giving and caring for others. MCI is proud of its work with charities and this year is helping a food bank charity in Edinburgh. We are helping…
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MCI has decided to show you our beautiful advent calendar this year! Every Friday we’ll be opening the weeks’ doors to reveal some festive fun to herald in the Holiday period. As you can see from the calendar, even Santa uses MCI when he has a breakdown! Our engineers are…
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Today MCI wants to celebrate that in 1859, On the Origin of Species was published by Charles Darwin. It isn’t a surprise then, that this day is also celebrated annually as Evolution Day. Darwin decided to write ‘On the Origin of Species’ after travelling around the Galápagos Islands on the…
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It is Remembrance Sunday this week. We at MCI think that, given the terrible conflicts in this world, that it is more poignant than ever to take time to think of everyone affected by the conflicts.
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MCI is celebrating Bonfire Night (otherwise known as Guy Fawkes Night) this weekend. This celebration only happens in the UK and marks the night that Guy Fawkes and his followers were stopped from blowing up Parliament. Most children in the UK know the rhyme: ‘Remember, remember the 5th of November,Gunpowder,…
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MCI is celebrating gremlins for Halloween this year. Some of you will remember the films of the same name with fluffy creatures that mustn’t be fed after midnight. However, we are going further back into history than that, to WW2. RAF pilots sometimes had intermittent faults with their machinery. The…
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MCI want to remind all its friends that the clocks go back by an hour this weekend. As we were taught at school: Fall back for winter, Spring Forward for Summer. As we get ready for the long nights here in Scotland and hope to see the Northern Lights, we…
