Adam Lyal - Out of Hours
Have you ever wondered what Adam Lyal gets up to when he is not leading tours around Edinburgh's Old Town? Every two months or so we will endeavour to delve into the depths of the Witchery Tours photo archive, and bring you a selection of photos and fascinating facts about one of our ghostly guides. What's more, by clicking the arrows below, you can look back over our previous 'victims' - we don't let them off the hook that easily!!
The featured guide for the months of October / November is Robin B.
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Name:
Robin Bankhead
Date of Death: 27th March 1811
Age: 8484 days
Occupation: Tour guide, publications officer, linguist, clubber.
Past occupation: Stewed ant
Looks like: The
back of a bus - in the nicest possible way! A boy band pin up, Prince
Harry's half-wit cousin.
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Nicknames: Mr B. Will Waite, R & B, Flower (due to his distinct fragrant aroma) Joined The Cadies & Witchery Tours: November 1997 Favourite Food: Findus chicken chasseur (from all good frozen food outlets), dry white toast, prawn cocktail crisp sandwiches, microwaved cheese & spam sandwiches. Favourite Drink: Kronenbourg Seize-Cent-Soixante-Quatre (brewed in Reading), white coffee with three sugars. |
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Best Friend: Amy (his girlfriend) 2nd
Best friend: Kabuki (his cat) Hobbies: Searching for new hobbies, giving up hobbies he's been at for more than a week, reading Paul's comics, onanism (look it up), cycling short distances. Bad Habits: Replying to his boss's offer of coffee by nonchalantly waving the cup in his face without looking up; finishing a tour after the next one's supposed to have started; using his own prototype language which no one understands... yet! Favourite Sayings: "That's a bit crap really then, isn't it?" |
Favourite Colour: Black, Taupe.
Favourite
Music:
Einstürzende Neubauten, Atari Teenage Riot, Hear'Say.
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Favourite Films: Goodfellas, Do The Right Thing, Near Dark, Drugstore Cowboy, My Stepmother Is An Alien. Favourite Films not yet made: Barrymore: The Musical Favourite Books: Just So Stories (R. Kipling), On The Road (J. Kerouac), Mr Nice (H. Marks), anything by Bill Bryson, What's under the kilt (www.scotweb.co.uk/underthekilt/). Most embarrassing tour moment: Jumping out on his first Halloween night, Robin was assigned the task of being a skeleton (about twenty times). On one of his last appearances, he decided to vary his routine a bit - by attempting 'some kind of martial arts thingy' with a length of chain hanging from a nearby gate. This seemed to be going quite well, up to the point where he concluded his chain-twirling show by slamming it into his forehead with near-lethal force. Thanks to the Cadies' marvellous safety gear for all new recruits (a balaclava and rubber mask), Robin was merely knocked silly (possibly an improvement) and sustained the minor 'ding' you see in this picture. He then wobbled back to his hiding-place, did his last couple of jump-oots with blood obscuring his vision, and returned to the office for humiliation and painkillers (pictured). |
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Ambition: To make an Excel spreadsheet to tell everyone in the world where everything is (and then sit back and watch the royalties roll in!)
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Dislikes: Paul wearing his Lyal boots, doing tours in under 2 hours (they are only meant to be 75 minutes long), going into courtyards, people who say "you can't smoke here" when he is only playing with his lighter, people who think they know more history than Mr Lyal. Name in a previous life: Duke Thorndyke III Occupation in a previous life: Probably a slave trader if you believe in karma, tobacco merchant, highway robber. |
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