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Ashley Davies

@msashleydavies.bsky.social
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Arts journalist (comedy specialist), Times Scotland (Alba) and Metro mainly. Scotsman comedy reviews during Edinburgh Fringe. Wanging on about birds all year round. North Berwick, near Edinburgh. She/her

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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 2h
The children have made our holiday hot tub so disgusting it’s only a matter of time before Feargal Sharkey turns up to spotlight the cause.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 22h
Witch
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Nobody warns you, when your kids start to grow up, how much you’ll miss reading them bedtime stories and deceiving them into performing menial acts of child labour under the guise of “fun competition”.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
For a few quid you can buy fish scraps from this guy and give Lucy and her pals a treat.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This is Lucy, who is just a couple of years younger than Leo DiCaprio’s current girlfriend. She’s blind but moves fast when she knows fish are about, and has no idea how ursine she looks. She lives around Eyemouth Harbour.
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Glasgow City Council: St Enoch Square is so dangerous at night we must implement a curfew against gatherings of more than two people Glaswegians: how will that be enforced Glasgow City Council: funfair Glaswegians: what Glasgow City Council: funfair.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This is one of the others. They really bring to life the torment of those left behind. artuk.org/discover/art...
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
It’s in Eyemouth in Berwickshire, but there are similar ones up the east coast (and probably beyond) of Scotland.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
These memorials to people lost at sea are heartbreaking.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
When it dawns on your dog that he’s about to get neutered
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I hope someone tells him you can while away the hours at the big Lush and you don't have to spend a single penny.
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Just checking setlist.fm so I can plan my toilet/bar breaks.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
hahaha
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Barack Obama's OVO Hydro show tonight is, unsurprisingly, sold out. I wonder if people will do that hunched-over walk they do when returning to their seats in the middle of the show with their pints.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Disappointing. In my day seals used the correct cutlery and sat like gentlemen.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ah, makes sense. I stupidly assumed it was an old beef.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
What happened at the Black Swan in Kelso?
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This dog has clearly developed a taste for human blood.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My children have just told me 58008 is “an old calculator meme”.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Northern Lights in North Berwick right now. This is with an iPhone but pictures look so much better with a Samsung.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Here's the top 75, chosen by multiple award-winning @chitgrrl.bsky.social, who has reviewed restaurants all over Scotland - incognito - and knows what she's talking about. www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...
thetimes.com
The 75 best restaurants in Scotland
From an oyster shed on Islay to buzzing bistros and Michelin-starred restaurants in Glasgow and Edinburgh, Chitra Ramaswamy picks her favourite places to eat
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I really enjoyed talking to chef Pam Brunton, who co-founded Inver, this weekend named best restaurant in Scotland. (See next post for the top 75.) She had some particularly interesting things to say about communication styles during service. www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
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Pam Brunton: Why I’m selling the best restaurant in Scotland
The co-owner of Inver, No 1 in our best restaurants list, tells us about moving on, the morals of food and ending up backstage at Glastonbury
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sounds like a word from Upstart Crow
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When I was a kid I didn't understand what a special effects or stunts were and thought that people who 'died' in movies were terminally ill and their families got money for their sacrifice.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Imagine not welling up about what they did to Laika the dog.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Beach wheelchair art
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
No. Glad we cleared that up.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Is there a more passive-aggressive typo than "any thanks"?
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Cha BBT, if I drink as much water as you will I drown?” www.instagram.com/reel/DeFV-mK...
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I love a farm cat. They have no idea how the other half live.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I picked some fun stuff to do in Scotland over the next week and beyond - books, surfing, foraging, musicals… Miriam Margolyes. www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
thetimes.com
What to see in Scotland: PT Barnum to Miriam Margolyes
Plus: Tiree windsurfing, the star-studded Bookmark Book Festival, foraging at Colonsay Food & Drink Festival and the outrageous director John Waters
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Reindeer shedding its velvet. Looks itchy.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My neighbours, swearing blind they haven’t been feeding my cat.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
North Berwick high tide
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thanks for the chat, @alandaviescomic.bsky.social. Couple of Scottish dates coming up - in Edinburgh and Aberdeen. www.thetimes.com/article/e96e...
thetimes.com
Alan Davies: I spend more time in the pharmacy than in the gym
The Jonathan Creek actor on his new stand-up show, taking a bath in socks and Edinburgh’s best vegetarian food
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sail away, sail away, sail away
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
He’s a scamp, that Sam Campbell.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Does Two Doors Down work as a stage show in a massive venue? I went along to find out. www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...
scotsman.com
Latimer Crescent comes to the Hydro
Vast audience greets cast with warmth and affection and is on their feet by the end, writes Ashley Davies
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Please join me in singing “task paralysis” to the tune of Bobby Brown’s My Prerogative.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Two Doors Down Live matinee taking place beside Comic Con in Glasgow. The confluence of cultures is really something.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ideal.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Normalise 20-minute social events.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Russell Kane playing Romeo?! He told me how and why. In today’s Metro.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Russell Kane playing Romeo?! He told me how and why. In today’s Metro.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Beautiful morning in North Berwick
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Shout out to the Victor chippy in East Kilbride from John Hannah. www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
thetimes.com
John Hannah: My most embarrassing moment? My first night on stage
The Four Weddings and a Funeral actor on childhood holidays, his new film and how to get the best out of the West Highland Way
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I've been trying to work out what feels odd about the newly discovered tilcayo cat, and I think I've worked it out: it looks like amateur taxidermy. www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ar...
bbc.co.uk
First new wild cat species discovered in more than 100 years
Experts say 'Leopardus tilcayo' is around the size of a domestic cat, but its spotted and striped coat initially made it difficult to tell it apart from other wild cats in the area. Find out more here...
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you ever want to know what it’s like throwing a grenade in a building, post a photo of a buzzard on a Facebook birding group and tell them you saw an eagle.
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