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27 September 1957 in the Simpsons Maternity Hospital, Edinburgh. Brought up in Crown Place, Leith. When I was a kid, there was a cupboard in the house between the living room and the bedroom that used to scare me. I can't remember if it was a food or a coal cupboard, or what was kept in it but I do remember there was a curtain over it and I used to be terrified of it.
A: I first came into the pub 24 years ago, to meet up with friends for a night out. I worked in Ferranti's at the time. I ended up walking out and meeting the friends outside because the place scared me. 6 years later, I was told I was coming here to work. I almost didn't turn up because of that. I worked for 3 months as a refief assistant, during which time the manager left, the employed the manager from The Rainbow who lasted 3 days, the disappeared. I was then offered management of the Tynie, having only been in the bar trade 3 months. My first day working here, I met the legendary Bobby Riva. He told me he was 'Big Bob frae Broughton' and that he would kick the living shite out of me if I didn't serve him properly. Then 5 minutes later, having realised the size of me had second thoughts and said, 'From now on, I'm wee Bob fi' Kirkcaldy with the dodgy heart.'
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A: I've nowhere else to go. I'm the manager. Over the years I've fallen in love with the pub and the customers. I've been here 19 years and it's my pub now.
A: 'The Boxer' by Simon and Garfunkel. At one point in the pub we were going to get all the regulars' wedding songs on the juke box, but it didn't work out because some of them are so old, you can't get the records any more. On my eldest daughter's (and the youngest one's) 21st birthday, I'd like to have the first dance with her to, 'The Greatest Love of All.'
A: 'Mississippi Burning' and 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' are both brilliant. The scariest film I've seen is probably 'Carrie' when the hand comes out the ground. The worst film I've seen is 'Absolute Beginners.'
A: The Hawes Inn in South Queensferry where you can see two of the best structures in the world - the Forth Road Bridge and Railway Bridges - from the same window. Plus, the food's good. My dad was a signal man at Dalmeny Station and once took the Blue Peter cameras up there. Have walked over the Road Bridge many times with Irish relations and the lie, over the years. Also, the view of Edinburgh from the Merchants of Edinburgh Golf Course (13th hole) - the highest point on a golf course in Edinburgh and I've played them all.
A: The best street in the world (Princes Street) is getting too commercialised. To many fast food shops.