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show boat tickets going… going

Claire Wood — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:50:54 +0000

Seems tickets for our Fringe show on our barge are selling faster than plump firm-fleshed fish on a prize fish barbeque-ing day. A very measley 70 remain for the entire fortnight. Make sure yours in one of them by purchasing quickly here.

show boat

Claire Wood — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:29:29 +0000

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!)

conspiracy for good

Claire Wood — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:41:28 +0000

This sounds like my dream come true. A giant treasure hunt - in a superbly good cause. Bring it on!

beards

Claire Wood — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:03:51 +0000

I’m image hunting for a man with a beard (bizarrely) in an office. And Getty Images threw up this:

Emperor Nicolas II in his palace in St Petersburg in 1914. All of 4 years before he was shot to death with wife and kids in the woods outside - if my memory serves me rightly - Ekaterinburg. How cultured Getty has become.

love / hate relationship

Claire Wood — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:33:25 +0000

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..?

Planet Leith

David Watson — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:36:31 +0000

Planet Leith, your one stop shop for snobby cards!

Only in Leith!

Eggheads

David Grenfell — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:57:39 +0000

Despite a late finish the night before for Batter of the Bands, Messrs Thorne, Ireland, Nicholson, Scott, Grenfell and Davies made the early trip to Glasgow full of confidence and bacon rolls. After an hour or so in make-up, form-filling and shirt-ironing the team, minus Davies who was warming the bench, swaggered onto set to meet Dermot and the heads of egg.

From then on, it moved into slick BBC production mode. There was no wasting of tax payers money here. And before you could say CJ de Mooi, the boys were in a taxi to the station, ready to take on an afternoon of World cu..sorry work.

But did anyone whip Daphne? Did anyone need 7 takes just to do their intro? Did anyone hand in their notice on Monday?

I’m sure you want to know how they got on. Unfortunately you’ll have to wait until summer 2011 when it goes on air.

fashionable austerity

Claire Wood — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:51:39 +0000

There are odd bits of chat flying about on the subject of what proper trend seekers might call “fashionable austerity” or maybe I’ve just made this term up. But you know the sort of thing I mean - vintage or customised old clothes as cool, sprucing up old furniture to give it new life, of course carrying your canvas bag with you at all times rather than taking dirty wasteful plastic bags from supermarkets and such like.

Some commentators endeavour to see a return to the ethics of the great wars which seems a bit of an over-optimistic reaction. But then I have just finished reading a rather superb novel called The Kindly Ones (Jonathan Littell) which in 1,000 glorious pages charts the wartime experiences of an SS officer. It’s a cracking read if you have the patience. The point being that fashionable austerity wasn’t really a feature of the normal person’s experiences in the second world war. It was more about getting by.

But I’m rambling. The point is, there’s a lovely ad in today’s Metro, courtesy of Sainsbury’s for their nectar card, which in the face of yesterday’s austere budget, is brilliantly topical.

a proper cup of coffee

Claire Wood — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:10:28 +0000

Childish but hooray for Costa!

I’m the same as you

Claire Wood — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:38:37 +0000

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!