IT has to be the costliest piece of record production ever in Edinburgh. An all-star line-up. Bogart, Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, James Stewart, Trevor Howard and the woman he left on the platform, Celia Johnson . . . they all have virtual walk-on parts in the DVD of a beautifully crafted balled penned and sung by local man Kenny Herbert.
If there was any justice, All My Days would make the Christmas top ten. Sure to have romantically-inclined women weeping all over their Prada.
It's one of the tracks on the prolific Herbert's timely album. He is also one of the two guitarists in A
ll My Days, along with Davie "Pilot" Paton, collaborator and, as they say, no mean songsmith himself.
I've urged Ken Bruce and his buddies to get All My Days on their playlists. No, I am not Kenny Herbert's agent, believe me.
A Brucie bonus I get a call from one-time broadcaster, voice coach, confidant to the stars and currently revelling in the inherited title Laird of Newtongrange Steve Hamilton rings me early morning, having completed his milk round.
"I'm gutted, totally gutted. I placed a substantial bet at 33-1 with my bookmakers William Hill on John Sergeant to win Strictly Come Dancing and as the show progressed, with John still looking like winning, I placed a second bet at 16-1, and he goes and blows it.
"You can drop the Laird bit. From here on, call me instead the Numpty from Nitten.
"Can I just add that I'm getting back on to William Hill asking what odds they'll give me that Bruce Forsyth will never die?"
The big cheese Sommeliers we all know. Those altogether splendid gents who know precisely which wine to pour into your glass.
Fromeliers doesn't slip so easily off the tongue. Same as sommeliers, only their speciality is cheese.
An efficient fromelier is worth his weight in brie and I know of at least one in a five-star Edinburgh hotel. Efficient only after I had a sharp word in his ear.
He well knows who I'm talking about. It's a running joke now.
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