GENTLEMAN and a scholar Kenny Waugh Jr, and one of the main sponsors of the Jazz Festival, will roll out the red carpet at Hudson's, his Hope Street hotel, and host the festival launch on July 24 for the media, co-sponsors and senior City Fathers.
"Frankly you could never call me a jazz fan," he tells me. "The Proclaimers are more my style and I hang on to their every word at Easter Road before every match."
Kenny, who also had the carpet out at Hudson's for the Film Festival, is bound fo
r Australia this month on a two-week tour with George Watson's fourth, fifth and sixth-year pupils – rugby for the lads, hockey for the girls.
"All my children have been Watson's pupils. I've still got a son and daughter at the school.
"They're proud to wear the tie, just as their dad is proud to wear a Hibernian tie."
Publican, hotelier and property developer, his company will build a 56-bedroom and bar/restaurant and new Edinburgh Accies changing room facilities in the transformation at Comely Bank. Building begins on August 19.
Bravo, Sir Sean Applause, applause. An early-morning fire alarm at the Caledonian brought guests, mostly Americans, on to the street in their jimjams and curlers but with admirable disregard for their safety they applauded the eventual appearance of one of their number, arm in a sling, Mr Sean Connery.
A bravo moment. Sean, resident at the Caley last week and no stranger to such hazards, all but took a bow.
A false alarm as it turned out. Apparently the hotel's toasters tend to bring out the brigade. No smoking allowed, but is this how they smoke the salmon in the kitchen there?
Afterwords . . . . . BBC Glasgow reportedly are training up Jackie Bird for a "top secret" assignment at the front line in Afghanistan. She's been over the assault course in Sauchiehall Street on Saturday nights by way of toughening up.
Jackie should have been bundled into the war zone a long time ago. If they'd put her on Taliban telly they'd have run screaming out of their mud huts with their hands up.
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