BT Murrayfield is a stunning stadium with excellent facilities and a far superior transport infrastructure - making it easily the most sensible option to become the next National stadium.
Which is why I fully expect the SFA to announce their choice as Hampden.
My favourite end of
@edFringe
quote:
โEdinburgh has the look of a house party where the host has just walked in, put the big light on and started hoovering.โ
I get the importance of maths in schools but I just wish I was taught fully how to deal with tax, National Insurance, pensions, being employed/self employed etc. when I was at school.
Thatโs a subject that would have actually been really handy in adult life.
REALLY handy.
Given how much nasty and vile stuff
@Twitter
seems to allow - the fact theyโve given a liftetime ban to Jo Caulfield for posting a funny about drinking wine beggars belief. Sheโs a fabulous person and comedian. Give her account back!!
#JoCaulfieldIsDelightful
Had to come see this for myself. This is all down to the amazing LX team
@captheatres
- thank you guys. Phenomenal.
@AndyGray59
would have LOVED this. ๐๐ฆ
#Batman
Got on the wrong train to Glasgow Queen Street. Got the one which goes via Polmont, Camelon and Aviemore. This is me at the start and this will be me by the end of the journey.
Fab week on the Afternoon Show! Tribute to Sean Connery, repeat of my int with John Sessions recorded just before his death,
#Outlander
reunion with
@SamHeughan
&
@grahammctavish
and a fascinating int with Brian Beacom about Stanley Baxter!
It's all here:
About to take this Big Tidy out for one last bag off.
What an emotional rollercoaster this show has been from the very beginning to the very abrupt end.
Thanks to everyone who came and to those who wanted to but couldnโt.
See you next year.
๐๐๐๐๐
๐ธ :
@rosscomact
Yesterday I interviewed Joanna Lumley and today Iโm talking to Shakinโ Stevens. My 12 year old self would have dropped his Rucanor bag in disbelief.
On this day, the 2๏ธโฃ1๏ธโฃst of May 2016.
Two photos, two very different emotions, twelve hours apart.
Pic 1. 8:55 am
Pic 2. 8:39 pm
How quickly life can change. ๐
My first Xmas without the Panto since 1999. Needless to say weโre beyond gutted.
Not the biggest surprise but still hard to see it in black and white. Iโm remaining positive and looking at it as just taking a year out.
Looking forward to 2021. What a show THATโS gonnae be. X
* King's panto update*
We're saddened to announce that this yearโs Kingโs panto, Sleeping Beauty, has been rescheduled until November 2021.
Tickets will automatically be transferred to 2021. Our box office will be in touch with all ticket bookers over the coming weeks.
๐ | The Board of Hibernian have announced that the majority shareholding in the club has passed fom HFC Holdings - owned by Sir Tom Farmer and Rod Petrie - to Bydand Sports LLC - a new company set up for that purpose by US businessman Ronald Gordon.
โก๏ธ
๐ข๐ฌ The quine is back!
@bbcrivercity
Roisin returns to Shieldinch and we can't wait to see Joyce Falconer on-screen again along with some new casting including the wonderful
@GrantStottOnAir
๐
Itโs been 5 months since weโve seen each other. We last had a beer together in March here in Black Ivy so weโve returned to pick up where we left off. ๐บ
(1/9)
Today the First Minister announced that from 26 December indoor events will be limited to 200 people or less with 1 metre social distancing in place for up to three weeks.
Happy 90th Birthday Sir Sean Connery. Thanks for delivering everyoneโs milk (apparently), The Untouchables, being the best Bond and Indianaโs Dad.
Thanks also to the young lady whose timing was impeccable that night at Prestonfield. ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ
#SeanConnery
Having watched all 6 eps on the new series of
#AfterLife
(for reviewing purposes) Iโd say not just 6 funny eps (which it is) but itโs like the perfect third chapter in one big funny, sad, touching, awkward story told over three series.
@rickygervais
- bravo Sir. ๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ป
Since last June I have moved my daughter out of York back home to Edinburgh. Out of home in Edinburgh through to a flat in Glasgow. Out of a flat in Glasgow back home in Edinburgh. Today I move her out of home to a flat in Leith.
Might start taking bookings.
#StottiesRemovals
Cutest heckle Iโve had levied at me in Panto came this afternoon. Whilst in full evil flow, a little tiny voice bellowed โI used to like youโ at me half way through Act 1.
Beautifully timed delivery too.
If someone told me, when I first started out in
#Panto
, that one one day this was going to happen, I would never have believed them. But it did.
#WhenGrantMetStanley
Panto villain
@GrantStottOnAir
was lucky enough to meet pantomime legend Stanley Baxter in his home in London ๐ญ
A very special programme about the Kingโs Theatre and its panto will air
@BBCRadioScot
's special on Christmas Day, 12.30pm ๐ป
Read more ๐๐ผ
Just jumped in a cab from the Kings Theatre.
Taxi Driver: โBeen to see the Panto?โ
Me: โEr.....yup.โ
TD: โIs it funny?โ
Me: โThe baddie was quite good.โ
TD: โNot been to the Panto for years!โ
Me: โWho was your favourite?โ
TD: โthat Allan Stewart is excellentโ
Me: ๐
The moment from last night when Andy Gray stepped back onto the stage of The Kings Theatre. โค๏ธ
#Theatre
#Panto
#AndyGray
@ King's Theatre, Edinburgh
Happy 97th Birthday to the wonder that is Stanley Baxter. Had the fantastic opportunity to interview him in his home in London when he was but a nipper of 92.
Just done something on my way to work today that I havenโt done, in public, for years - I fell.
It was a beauty. Crossed the road, tripped over the kerb, landed on my back, legs a cimbo - full dying fly!! Right in front of a car full of a family heading to Panto!!
#Erse
๐ณ๐
Had to share this. One of the child dancers in the
#Panto
asked me backstage if I โshaved my head to get that pointy bit to look like that!โ
๐ณ๐๐๐๐ณ
#OutOfTheMouthsOfWeans
Today I went into town and wandered along Princes Street. I went into shops and bought clothes and records. It felt like 1985 all over again.
All that was missing was a quarter pounder from Wimpy.
My son is 23 and has never experienced the joy and excitement of watching Scotland in a National Tournament.
Last night I have promised to buy him a Scotland top.
THATโS the sort of crazy, irrational, spontaneous behaviour Scotland qualifying has incited. ๐คช๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
Finally completed
#BlueLights
. Wow. Best cop drama Iโve seen in years. Better than Line of Duty in my book. Story actually made sense!! ๐ Real edge of seat telly. Canโt recommend it enough. ๐๐ป
It was 30 years ago today..
Having left the polis one week previous, at 1am, I pushed up a fader in studio B at Radio Forth and did my first professional link on air. Little did I know what was to come and little did I know my first autograph card was going to look like this!๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ
Should be starting rehearsals tomorrow. ๐ขGot my Kings fix this morning tho. ๐คฉFilmed a very special Xmas event for
@MaggiesCentres
with my big jowly pal
@AndyGray59
!! โค๏ธ
The final show of the year and indeed the run. And what a fantastic run itโs been.
Time for Capt. James T. Hook to take on Pan one last time.
Happy New Year ya bunch oโ tidies!! ๐ดโโ ๏ธ๐๐ช
In the last year I auditioned for the part of a radio presenter and on another occasion; a policeman.
I didnโt get either.
As a former police officer turned radio presenter, this made me chuckle.
#ShareYourRejection
Imagine how much better we would all feel every day if Twitter was full of glorious, heartwarming stuff like this?
Take a bow
@theliammayo
and all who helped with this! ๐๐๐โค๏ธ
As some of you on here already know a lad I work with who has autism was mugged on Monday. We managed to get a whip round on the go and raised over ยฃ400! Thank you to everybody who donated and passed on their best on here. He doesnโt show his emotions very well but heโs buzzing
So sad to hear Bobby Ball has passed away. Did my first ever Kings Edinburgh Panto with him and Tommy in 1994 and then again in Glasgow the following year. I was a huge fan as a boy so getting to watch them tear the place apart from the wings each night was a thrill.
#RIPBobby
Let the panto comedown commence. A fabulous first run in the wonderful Festival Theatre with a lovely bunch of Tidies.
Will return there in November for my 25th Edinburgh Panto with my ever faithful Ring of Villainy for โPeter Panโ.
๐๐๐๐๐ช
Until thenโฆ.Shoosh.
Such sad news about Les McKeown. Hosted a gig and his band were booked to close the event. Soon as they went on stage, every single seat at every single table emptied and the dancefloor filled and stayed packed through their brilliant set.
#BayCityRollers
Up town for a stroll and sad to see this place all boarded up. Top Man was my first โradioโ gig as in store Saturday DJ in the early/mid 80s.
Great days of dodgy hair, T bag T shirts and leather trousers.
Iโm sitting in a lovely bar up town on the coldest night since the last cold one and noticed that peopleโs inability to SHUT THE DOOR after them is quite remarkable. ๐ณ
Right. Here we go. Another belter of a season at The Kings with this dream team beckons. Goldilocks makes it 20 Edinburgh Kings Pantoโs in a row for me!!! ๐ณ๐ ๐ฉ
#NotBeenFoundOutYet
Happy 90th Birthday to the magnificent
@edinplayhouse
! Sold programmes as a teenager and saw hunners of bands back in the day. Even did work experience there from High school with my mate Mino. They trusted us to change the names on the canopy one day.
So we did this. ๐ค
After a quick (and very abrupt) exit on Xmas Eve, I finally went back to The Kings today to clear out my dressing room.
Gutted we had to finish like we did but am now looking forward to moving
#Panto
to The Festival Theatre this Christmas.
Watch. This. Space. ๐
Huge respect and admiration for our panto star Andy Gray speaking about getting the all-clear from cancer to bestie
@GrantStottOnAir
on Friday in the packed out BBC tent at George Heriot's School. Full report in the Edinburgh News:
A HUGE round of applause to welcome the first young person to the RHCYP! ๐
Edinburghโs new childrenโs hospital is now fully open. โค๏ธ
#MoreThanAHospital
#MovingDay
Hibs appointing Appleton.
Naysayers: โWhoโs he?โ โNo ambition Hibs.โ โWhat a shambles.โ โSack the board.โ
Hibs now not appointing Appleton.
Naysayers: โTypical Hibs.โ โWhat a shambles.โ โSack the board.โ
๐
Am I the only one who watches someone on
#xfactor2018
- thinks โwell thatโs a load of pishโ only to think โwhat the fuhโ when the panel say they โloveโ them? ๐ณ๐ค
Twitter seems to be amazed that Dec is coping brilliantly on his own.
Of course he is!!
He was hardly going to lose the ability to do what heโs been doing for years!!
#SaturdayNightTakeaway