http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Edinburgh Christmas and Hogmanay budget to be cut" en Thu, 21 May 2026 17:02:39 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15563#post-252616 Sat, 10 Jun 2017 22:35:56 +0000 Rosie 252616@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm old enough to remember when the pubs closed at 10:30 on 31 December and we hung glumly round the Tron waiting for something to happen. It wasn't even clear that it was midnight.</p> <p>But 3 weeks! Can't there be 5 minutes without some kind of festival?</p> <p>I do remember they tried to make something of St Andrew's Day, which didn't take off. End of November - St George much more season-friendly.</p> <p>Where's a surge of Free Presbyterianism when you need it? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15563#post-252590 Sat, 10 Jun 2017 19:11:41 +0000 gembo 252590@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If the Edinburgh winter festival has been so successful surely it does not need so much funding anymore.</p> <p>He is right about how Edinburgh used to shut down and yet part of me is now hankering for those days.</p> <p>Actually the first free Hogmanay festivals were a laugh. George street was a carnival, there were agent provocateurs on stilts asking people if they had a licence for their moustaches etc. Then it became so popular it was so dangerous they had to start charging you to have fun and then one year it was like minus twenty and blowing a gale. That was a laugh. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15563#post-252586 Sat, 10 Jun 2017 18:57:56 +0000 chdot 252586@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>We believe Hogmanay should not just be a three-day event.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/city-centre/hogmanay-bosses-reveal-plans-for-additional-events-1-4471919" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/city-centre/hogmanay-bosses-reveal-plans-for-additional-events-1-4471919</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15563#post-201527 Fri, 09 Oct 2015 12:30:55 +0000 chdot 201527@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"removed in the spirit of Christmas"</p> <p>Bit early... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15563#post-201525 Fri, 09 Oct 2015 12:25:27 +0000 Stickman 201525@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>&lt;EDIT&gt; deliberately provocative statement removed in the spirit of <strike>Christmas.</strike>. &lt;SECOND EDIT&gt; the religious/secular occasion of your choice. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15563#post-201515 Fri, 09 Oct 2015 11:56:26 +0000 crowriver 201515@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Edinburgh was shut for business over Hogmanay"</p> <p>What exactly is wrong with that? It's a holiday. Why do we have to be "open for business" 24/7/365? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15563#post-201499 Fri, 09 Oct 2015 11:27:02 +0000 chdot 201499@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>“When we started this event Edinburgh was shut for business over Hogmanay. Everything is open and everything is full now. Most other cities would kill for the profile Edinburgh gets around the world.”</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburgh-hogmanay-boss-warns-of-cut-backs-1-3912364" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburgh-hogmanay-boss-warns-of-cut-backs-1-3912364</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15563#post-201285 Wed, 07 Oct 2015 17:08:51 +0000 crowriver 201285@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good.</p> <p>(Bah humbug). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15563#post-201250 Wed, 07 Oct 2015 14:59:29 +0000 chdot 201250@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/what-s-on/edinburgh-festival/edinburgh-christmas-and-hogmanay-budget-to-be-cut-1-3909614" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/what-s-on/edinburgh-festival/edinburgh-christmas-and-hogmanay-budget-to-be-cut-1-3909614</a></p> <p>Looks like they didn't put up parking charges soon enough! </p>