Happy Halloween 2025

Most Fridays mornings in block prep I find myself at a well known bakery collecting pastries for big meetings. Today I did that in a cowboy costume all in aid of the Halloween cheer. It wasn't in short supply around our offices. Art and Costume departments thrived especially but everyone made a big old effort. The pumpkin carving contest I put on concluded with a runaway winner, and the overall vibe was just terrific in the workplace. I left tonight still soaking up the good energy. Usually on Halloween I watch a scary movie or do something similar, but I got my fill from simply being around such great people at the office.

 

 

Smoking Microwave

Powered through a bunch of my logging duties across the morning. The main team aren't working til much later on these days so I had plenty of quiet time in the mornings to get a wriggle on. We did have a full on fire alarm occur though, which prompted me to once again throw on my Hi-Vis jacket and frogmarch people into the back of the car park. We were let back in after the staff blasted a smoking microwave with an extinguisher. My pumpkin carving competition is now garnering so serious entries too, the level of skill is absolutely bonkers on this job and I'm actually flabbergasted at how impressive some of them are.

Traitors update: This will be the final update as I was banished tonight. I got voted out after a genuine misunderstanding that was used as leverage against me. Least I made it to round 3 but it still stings going out.

Down Cemetery Road

Louis shared the reviews for Down Cemetery Road which are looking pretty good! Always good to see the show you gave 11 months of your life to yielding some warm reception. You'll see my name in the credits for that one (if you don't blink that is) as the Assistant Script Supervisor, my first full role as such in fact and it was a great learning environment. I've already seen the first two episodes and already eager to see how the rest of it shakes out.

Traitors update: I was nearly banished tonight, winning my right to survive by a single vote. Very hairy moment for sure but hopefully that means the Traitors won't be voting me out in the morning.

Traitors

So at work a bunch of us have volunteered ourselves to play Traitors. We thought it would be a bit of a laugh that would love and die very quickly. How wrong we were.

Our 2nd AD has gone all out with flavor and theming. 25 players, two eliminated at the start of the day, then a task for everyone to do, then a roundtable to discuss who should go out, followed by a round of banishments. Happy to report I have survived to live another day, but by golly, the whole thing is so absorbing. Everyone on set is side-eyeing and asking for tea to be spilt... All the while no one trusts anyone. It's madness but is bringing people together in the best possible way.

Now I just pray I make it to breakfast as the castle tomorrow morning. 

Scripty Once More

All my stress and prep work paid off because my day on set as the Script Supervisor went smoothly. It helped that I was surrounded by a wonderful team of people who all knew what was what. The cast members all knew their lines and were receptive to all my notes. Got a few good saves under my belt but I can go to sleep knowing the scenes we shot will cut together in the edit without issue. Time to treat myself with a nice early night because my brain is fried. 

Sunday Homework

We originally planned to meet up with Daniel for a group lunch but a newly developed cold kept him grid locked... But that didn't stop Mark, Lucy, Rebecca and me from feasting on Asian inspired small plates. That was my sole 'fun allocation' for the day because I got my head back into the land of scripts. I'm doing easily the biggest day of Scripts Supervising of my career tomorrow so I've been doing all my homework ahead of tomorrow to ensure the day goes smoothly. I just want it to go well and prove to myself that I can do the big scary days. I already can't wait for this time tomorrow when I can stop worrying about things that haven't happened.

Another Bristol Boy

Only had two objects today: Move Daniel Roberts into his new Bristol flat and go a early Halloween party. First one went off without a hitch - I hooked up with Dan and his family and hoofed boxes up and across a car park in an incredibly jovial moving in event. We're seeing Dan tomorrow to officially welcome him into the Bristol way of life but I'm already so excited for all the hangout sessions in the works.

Flash forward 6 hours later and I was dancing with Long John Silver, Glinda from wicked, Fred Flintstone, an MMA fighter and Deadpool at a house party. I came 2nd in the Apple Bobbing but earned laurels for my tarot reading sessions which were a lot of fun to give out to people a la carte.