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"Edinburgh Christmas and Hogmanay budget to be cut"
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Posted 8 years ago #
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Good.
(Bah humbug).
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“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.”
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http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburgh-hogmanay-boss-warns-of-cut-backs-1-3912364
Posted 8 years ago # -
"Edinburgh was shut for business over Hogmanay"
What exactly is wrong with that? It's a holiday. Why do we have to be "open for business" 24/7/365?
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<EDIT> deliberately provocative statement removed in the spirit of
Christmas.. <SECOND EDIT> the religious/secular occasion of your choice.Posted 8 years ago # -
"removed in the spirit of Christmas"
Bit early...
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We believe Hogmanay should not just be a three-day event.
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Posted 6 years ago # -
If the Edinburgh winter festival has been so successful surely it does not need so much funding anymore.
He is right about how Edinburgh used to shut down and yet part of me is now hankering for those days.
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.
Posted 6 years ago # -
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.
But 3 weeks! Can't there be 5 minutes without some kind of festival?
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.
Where's a surge of Free Presbyterianism when you need it?
Posted 6 years ago #
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