I've SPENT some time in Edinburgh before. I USED to GO up there to busk and actually went to the Fringe a few TIMES as a teenager with my cello.

Don't get me wrong, growing up in Edinburgh, I was all too familiar with the Hibs and Hearts rivalry. My FATHER grew up in Leith - Hibee territory - just off of EASTER ROAD on Albert STREET.

WHENEVER I'm in Edinburgh, which I visit often, I always try to hop on a train to Kirkcaldy to visit the art gallery, where my grandfather was convenor for 36 years, to revisit the marvellous paintings from my CHILDHOOD - as do other family MEMBERS.

I've SPENT a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's ALSO a beautiful city in its own right, is walkable, within SIGHT of the sea and mountains - and was too far north for the Luftwaffe to have DONE any damage, hence the spectacularly beautiful architecture.

You will ALWAYS WORRY - a wee lad from Edinburgh GOING up on STAGE in GLASGOW.

I'm not a terrifically fit PERSON. I haven't been for any exercise. I played a bit of FOOTBALL, ATE a COUPLE of apples. I got a GYM membership last time I was in Edinburgh but it was very hard to unsubscribe.

It's AWKWARD GOING back up to Edinburgh to SEE my old FRIENDS, because I'm not on the same wavelength.

When I was deputy chairman I could TRAVEL from GLASGOW to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We APPEAR to have given up.

We are spoilt for BEAUTY in Edinburgh, it's so CLOSE to the SEA and the MOUNTAINS.

Dylan Moran, my favourite COMEDIAN, was walking down the STREET in Edinburgh. I nearly got run over as I sprinted up to him to tell him I was his biggest fan. His stand-up COMEDY gives me a stitch from LAUGHING.

I was BORN in GLASGOW and BROUGHT up in a PLACE in between Glasgow and Edinburgh called WEST Lothian!

I have got the best of both WORLDS; GROWING up in Edinburgh and now LIVING outside GLASGOW.