ALEX Cole-Hamilton has had some amazing and detailed stories to share with us on social media recently. And I'm sure you're wondering how you, too, could experience the thrills he does on a day-to-day basis. Now you can!
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Introducing Choose Your Own Adventure with Alex Cole-Hamilton. You get to decide where he goes, what he overhears, what he's wearing and even whether or not he's clean shaven at the time!
To play, follow these rules:
Pick a random number between 1 and 7 for each round
See what you get!
I was …
1. In the supermarket
2. At a jazz club
3. Fresh from pumping iron at the gym
4. Cropping front pages of The National
5. Outside blocks of flats in Lerwick
6. Saving a child from a fire
7. Taking out the bins
Wearing …
1. My Star Wars T-shirt
2. A Panama hat
3. A LibDem rosette
4. My Spiderman costume
5. Canvass shorts
6. Nothing
7. Ian Murray's Union Flag jacket
And I overheard …
1. Two SNP voters tearing up their membership cards
2. Three former SNP voters saying they’ll now vote LibDem
3. One former SNP voter talking about how much I’ve done for Edinburgh
4. A whole group of SNP youth activists planning to bunk off campaigning
5. An SNP voter admitting independence was bad
6. A family of SNP supporters arguing about GERS
7. An SNP-supporting couple hiding copies of The National
Let us know what combinations you find!
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