Tour guide Euan MacInnes is declared the institutional winner of the Student Employee of the Year (SEOTY) competition, making him the hardest-working student at Edinburgh University.
We were hoping he’d get a cup or something, but apparently the kudos and respect of his fellow students is reward enough.
The Cadies assault the airwaves again! This time it’s a team of four spooks up against BBC2’s formidable team of experts on everything, the Eggheads!
In a nail-biting 30 minute face-off, our lads racked up the show’s best-ever non-winning score before being beaten on the very last question. It doesn’t get much closer than that!
Cadies staffers Chris Watt, Cameron Pirie and Fat Boab Mitchell film the short drama Dreams Are Not Enough for The Guardian’s competition. We won’t spoil too much of the plot, but Chris ‘trips out’ and he and Cameron end up in a bath!
Cameron also achieves a retail coup this month, by selling no less than fifty paddimacs in 24 hours. Co-incidentally, this was also the rainiest 24 hours of the 2005 Edinburgh Military Tattoo…
Adam Lyal turns up in many odd places, but never before has he appeared in comic form – until now! The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, 2000AD, gives a very familiar-looking ghostly guide his own three-panel, speaking part in the story Caballistics, Inc. written by Scottish scribe Gordon Rennie.
Collectors’ note: the issue in question is Prog 1443.
Top spooks Chris Watt and Euan MacInnes take on the latest television challenge: National Lottery Jet Set. Chris chalks up a ‘moral victory’ in the heats, but gets nul points with host Eammon Holmes for saying he plans to sell his passport on eBay! He is finally knocked out after claiming that a pentagon has 9 sides.
Silly thing! Everyone knows it’s 24. Right?
Euan MacInnes is accompanied on his Murder & Mystery Tour by an Evaluator from the Edinburgh Tourist Board. All this time as members of the board, and at last it’s time to decide our Star Rating – Euan clearly ‘wows’ the Evaluator, who awards the tour 4 shiny stars! (Would have been five, except he failed to tell the punters to go and buy things in our shop!)
The end of April also saw the launch of the Edinburgh Pass, a discount smart-card scheme supported by the tourist board and a range of local attractions and businesses including The Cadies & Witchery Tours. This leads to a rash of ghosts sighted with long white ‘tails’ after accidentally depressing the paper-feed button on their mobile card terminal while carrying it over the shoulder.
We participate in The Grudge Competition in the Herald & Post newspaper co-produced with Ster Century Cinema. Viewers of this ‘pant-wetting’ [The Daily Mail] supernatural horror get a chance to win something even scarier: a Witchery Tour! (woo! etc.)
Our eight brightest tour staff (i.e. nearly all of them) appear at Wembley (not the stadium, the BBC TV studios) to compete in BBC1’s Test The Nation: The Great British Test.
The Cadies fielded the following team:
Joining supremos from the Loch Ness Centre, Eden Project and others on the Tour Guides team, our combined might sees off all opposition.