Some suitable additions to our Props tables for National Stage Management day!

Bye to Swansea: Oxford next! At least we get it out of the way early..

Watching Stephen Fry 'Out there': excellent. Tune in now or catch on demand

Liverpool Empire. Where the rumble of the trains underground sometimes competes with the music: but not tonight-the 'shabby little shocker'!

Touring tip for budget hotels: if you like lots of tea, use the kettle as a teapot: but check in case previous occupant has done this too!

Touring tip: you can use face cream to polish your shoes!!

Memo to self: don't spend half the night 'talking' to a friend in the U.S. & watching Tito Gobbi on YouTube if you have to be at work @ 11!

If you haven't heard this years Reith lectures by Grayson Perry, get them on replay: funny, cynical, truthful, brilliant!

Think the London Underground message "a good service on all lines" would be more convincing if the announcer didn't sound like Jack Dee!

How many carriages have Cross Country Rail put on from Birmingham given Racing @ Cheltenham & Rugby in Cardiff: yep, 2. #standingalltheway

What's Classic FM got against the human voice? A request for the Queen of the Night aria is answered by a TRUMPET version. Grrr.

Plymouth publicity

#HappyBirthdayShakespeare! Don't worry, we're Stage Managers - we've got all 450 candles risk assessed!

Dear Woman in grey suit on the train: does your phone have to make beeping sounds, like a video game?!

Equity ARC begins with the Obituary, honouring all members who died in the year. Ralph Hamer, Goldini & Richard Angas my personal losses.

Equity ARC. Compelling contribution from Lubna Kerr regarding lack of even basic common courtesy in the audition process

So sad to be going home after such a wonderful break in Devon: back to work Monday!

Busy day: work this morning, train to London for Equity Council Dinner (a 'getting to know you' event). Now watching the news in Italian!

Doctor Who returns, and Peter Capaldi may just be the best Doctor yet says @MsEllenEJones ind.pn/1sjmaxb

As a half-Scot (part of diaspora in South Wales!) am delighted that Scotland is going to remain in the UK!!