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Getting over the gardening bug | caught in a Newcastle hotel bed
Edinburgh Evening News
|November 14, 2025
Fine city, Newcastle. I enjoy my trips down to work at the southern branch of the Stand comedy club.
They put me up in a hotel, a wonderful treat. Solo sleeping means snore-free snoozing. My husband is dearly beloved, but his snoring is almost a superpower. He can rattle spare change on the bedside table.
Saturday mornings mean a lovely wee cup of tea in bed with the telly on. On my last particularly drizzly morning in The Toon I was slightly shocked to be offered The Beechgrove Garden. Good lord. I had no idea the Aberdonians were still at it in the potting shed.
Way back in the 70s it was fronted by two mildly dotty, lovely gentlemen, Jim McColl and George Barron. Jim was a great one for a flat cap. George was obsessed with muck. Both really knew what they were doing.
They gave the impression of two chaps trapped on an allotment in Limbo. On the surface they seemed pally enough, but there was always an edge of snark lurking under the language of flowers and fruit.
This story is from the November 14, 2025 edition of Edinburgh Evening News.
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