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Now I’m hardly a prolific blogger at the best of times but if you’re a regular attentive and loyal reader, you’ll have noticed that recent posts have been skimpy to say the least. Your digital team has been rather hampered by x2 things:

1. Jim Wolffman has selfishly been en vacances in Montreal
2. Me, I, Claire Wood, is about to launch a Fringe show upon the unsuspecting public, the like of which you have never before seen. So that’s been eating up a good portion of my free time.

We are doing, courtesy of a very smart idea from Mr Brooke, a show on our fair barge, the Mary of Guise. This show is The Tempest, by a little known fellow called William Shakespeare. It’s not quite Shakespeare as you (might) know it. I’ve cut the script to bits (such arrogance!), we have live music peppering the fine Shakespearean tongue and, well, I never saw Jonny Depp in a Shakespeare play. (Not that I have exactly Jonny Depp in my cast but you’ll struggle to tell the difference…)

The spectacle starts on Monday. Runs from 9 to 21 August at 7:30pm each night except Sunday with a matinee both Saturdays at 2:30pm. Tickets are available here and I know everyone always says they’re selling fast but they genuinely are. So do pop along if you’re in that neck of the woods and fancy a little sliver of something approximating to culture. (Although don’t pop along spontaneously as we might be sold out - get a ticket Now and Then you can pop along. I’d hate you to be disappointed!)

Although I’m trying hard to hate google (unreasonably singling them out from all other search engines) at the moment for the amount of energy they force us unwittingly to consume - particularly in my job which often feels as if it’s entirely fuelled by google - I then reluctantly lope onto the internet to check something unavoidable. And am presented with this.

The Little Prince.

Adorable. Love them. Yet hate them. Love them yet… What’s a planner to do..?

Great pic / comment on blipfoto about a poor discarded ’see me’ leaflet. Found its way to them via the magic of their twitter feed which is also worth following.

Keep it up, Mandi!

Getting some v nice coverage for our latest BRU campaign.

The Scotsman have a big plump piece today - it can be viewed here.

The Sun have gloriously gone to town with the story.

There’s even some real live coverage of the press conference on the Mirror’s website (assuming you don’t mind sitting through the Kleenex ad first).

But find it all in its purest form on the IRN-BRU website here. Have fun.

Scotland’s Big Picture today on the BBC website is (in the collective sense) ours.

Check it, as Ahmad used to (and in fact, probably still does) say.

Marketing Society Star Awards on Friday night. We did really rather well (oh how arrogant) with a couple of golds, seven silver awards and five bronzes between us and our tangible cousins.

Our esteemed Scottish Government client - for whom most of the above awards were collected - won Marketing Team of the Year which was very well-deserved.

IRN-BRU’s storming Can Clan event last autumn carried away one of the above silvers which was equally well-deserved.

But far and away highlight of the night was our very own Planning Director and my personal master, Mr Amers, winning Agency Star of the Year. Here he is looking modest. Though he hardly needs to.

Are completely and utterly in order for a bevvy of Leith beauties who have just beautifully passed their IPA Foundation Certificates. Although talk about foundations does them scant service as they’re all far superior to that. So big hats off to Brieanna, Christine and Toni. You can rest assured that they are well and truly foundationed when dealing with them in the weeks and months to come.

Words of wisdom in The Scotsman from our illustrious leader. (Richard Marsham, I mean, not Victoria Raimes.)

Well today has been a day of excitement - although it would be more accurate to say the excitement began at 18:41 yesterday - as the new IRN-BRU ad aired last night.

Several months in the making, many meetings and lots of late night phone calls later, it still never fails to thrill me when the fruits of our labours make it to the airwaves. This time around, the end result is a huge tribute to Mikey, Mark, Les, Ed and Gillian. As well as our ever courageous clients over at Barrs. To whom all, thanks.

I’ve been checking twitter obsessively to observe “real-time” feedback, disregarding a bunch of 14 year olds who told me dismissively in a co-creation session a couple of weeks ago that twitter is dead. The journalists have been pretty kind. We’ve had a couple of lovely emails from Other Clients already (thanks, David Craik, newly of Bright Digital Marketing). So, so far, so good, as they say.

But don’t be so foolish as to take my word for it. Judge for yourselves here.