All greens. I’ll take that. #Wordle 1,658 4/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Too many options. #Wordle 1,657 5/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

#Edinburgh - art in plain sight.

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#Wordle 1,655 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

#Connections Puzzle #933 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩

#Wordle 1,654 4/6 ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Been a while. #Connections Puzzle #932 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

#Wordle 1,653 5/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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A trip to York for Berwick’s legendary pantomime with Martin Barrass, Suzy Cooper, David Leonard and AJ Powell was always the finale of my annual panto tour. Now it’s gone, a big shout out to Henry Calvert for reuniting the cast York’s Famous Panto | A Retrospective. Watch here youtu.be/-5E5XT0bTc0

Deck The Halls 4Film now. DND! #GuiltyPleasure

I’ll take that. #Wordle 1,651 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Obviously still half asleep after my Christmas dinner but got there. #Wordle 1,650 6/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Brunton’s Wizard of Oz is spirited but its script needs a magic fix – review ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #review #panto

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Full Rainbow #1093 ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪ @5s 🔴⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪ @7s 🔴🟠🟡⚪⚪⚪⚪ @10s 🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟤🟣 @17s in 8 moves. BRILLIANT! FULL RAINBOW www.fullrainbow.co.uk www.gylesbrandreth.net

Wordle 1,648 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

#Sunderland Empire #panto stars shine in sassy Sleeping Beauty – #review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @mustseetheatre.bsky.social

14 presets. 14 pantos. 54 stars between them. My 2025 panto tour is complete. @mustseetheatre.bsky.social #panto

Looking ahead to 2026 and am excited to reveal I will joining Mark Forrest as Director on his debut play, SHIPS… - we’ve been friends since we were kids, so this is a very special project for me, especially as Ships is a dark, yet funny, snapshot of life in Leith, by a Leither, for Leithers.

Full Rainbow #1092 ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪ @5s ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪ @7s ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪ @10s 🔴🟠🟡⚪⚪⚪⚪ @20s 🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟤🟣 @33s in 7 moves. BRILLIANT! FULL RAINBOW www.fullrainbow.co.uk www.gylesbrandreth.net

By the skin of my teeth. #Wordle 1,647 6/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Just watched Strange Journey: The Rocky Horror Picture Show. So many people, speaking so much sense. Such a loving tribute to the genius that is Richard O’Brien, by his son Linus O’Brien.

Eventually #Wordle 1,646 5/6 ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Cumbernauld’s Baltic is a belter but with a snip or two could be cooler – review ⭐️⭐️⭐️

#Wordle 1,645 4/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

#Connections Puzzle #923 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Today’s panto, No 13, lucky for some is The Wizard of Oz, The Brunton at Loretto Theatre. Here’s the preset.

Last night’s preset for Baltic at Cumbernauld Theatre. Must See Theatre review coming soon.

Variety Show ethic trumps #panto fun but Jack still goes up the Beanstalk – #review ⭐️⭐️⭐️ @mustseetheatre.bsky.social

Phew #Wordle 1,644 6/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Been a while since I got ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #waffle1428 5/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩⭐🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 wafflegame.net

Missed by one 🟦 #Connections Puzzle #921 🟦🟦🟩🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Slightly later than planned, the latest Panto Countdown to Christmas pic. It’s from 2009 and Musselburgh Brunton’s 30th pantomime, specially commissioned to mark the historic milestone - Sinbad and the Little Mermaid. The press call saw the cast clamouring on and off boats. 6/13

Welocme to Edinburgh Monarchs Mitch Cluff. Good to have you on board. We’ll see you in The Tower. #speedway

All green 😀 #Wordle 1,642 4/6 ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Now, I wonder if Allan, Grant, Joskyn, Gail, Clare and Amber ever expected to see their faces on chocolate beans. A wee surprise for the Panto VIPs at Capital Theatres’ Jack and the Beanstalk tonight.

My Neighbour Totoro stars thrill at being in magical London West End production.

Can’t believe that today’s countdown to #Christmas panto pic is now 25 years old. Taken with Allan Stewart on the set of Dick Whittington at the Edinburgh King’s in 2000. The first of two occasions I played Santa Clause. 5/13

😕 #Wordle 1,641 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟨⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Today’s adventure, #Lumo Trains extend their services into #Glasgow.

Season’s Greetings. Wishing you all a peaceful Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

Panto countdown to Christmas Day 4 and a great shot of Edward Cory as Count Alucard with Nessie in 2008’s Sleeping Beauty at The Brunton, Musselburgh. A stalwart of my pantos, Eddie also played King Rat, Baron Hardup, Vainglorious, Barnacle Bill and Abanazar, and was my assistant director.

Saw a post from a ‘performer’ decrying anything less than a ⭐️⭐️⭐️ review as disrespectful to the creatives involved. The point of a review is to tell prospective audience member if they should part with their hard-earned cash, not inflate egos. If it’s crap, it crap. Simple. Do better.

Day 3 of my panto countdown to Christmas and it’s back to 2006 and the first panto I wrote and directed - Dick McWhittington at The Brunton, Musselburgh, where we had the amazing Katrina Bryan, later a huge success in CBEEBiES’ Nina and the Neurons, as our principal girl, Alice Fitzwarren. 3/13