The Digital Marketing Mum

20/04/2021

The weirdest rebranding / renaming process. Not sure about you but sounds like an IT business now 👀🙈 Next it’ll be KFC - Chicken Innovations?

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11/04/2021

As the hospitality industry get ready to reopen their doors from next week onwards, I’d like to wish everyone good luck and I can’t wait to return to your venues to eat, socialise and be Merry (in a Covid safe manner!)

As one of the most affected industries in the pandemic, I know I’m not the only one who has missed the interaction & experience of dining out (sometimes with my kids 🙈), or just a weekend trip away. But whilst we can’t enjoy everything to the max quite just yet, this next step is a huge step in the right direction for us all to start getting back into the world again 🌎🍽

Be kind and all the best to businesses!

07/04/2021

Chip cob! 👀

I know it’s not even 9am yet and starting a debate.🙈 So what is this? 👀

28/03/2021

Vaccine done 👍🏽

18/02/2021

“The equation for work is: output = unit of work / hour × hours worked. ‘Work more, sleep less’ people tend to focus too much on the hours worked part of the equation. The unit of work / hour part of the equation – productivity – is just as (if not more) important.”

In its advice on work-life balance, the Mental Health Foundation counsels: “Work smart, not long.” What does that mean in practice? “This involves tight prioritisation – allowing yourself a certain amount of time per task – and trying not to get caught up in less productive activities, such as unstructured meetings that tend to take up lots of time.”

British productivity remains low while the number of hours we work exceeds that of some of our European neighbours. One result of this is the dismal array of statistics set out by the Mental Health Foundation: when working long hours 27% of employees feel depressed, 34% feel anxious and 58% feel irritable.

Source: Guardian

17/02/2021

14/02/2021

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13/02/2021

I think we can all relate 😂

12/02/2021

Where do kids get their energy from!? My son literally danced all day in his amateur lion costume 🙈

Watch out MaBo Lion Dance 孖寳醒獅團 you got new competition! 🤣🤣 Just a shame we can’t celebrate fully this year!

09/02/2021

03/02/2021

Great tips for busy parents juggling work, kids and life in general 😇 via Harvard Business Review

Working parents need a solid family calendar system to reduce stress and diminish avoidable bad surprises. There’s no one right way to keep track of your family’s schedule, but there are some basic principles that can guide you in setting up a system that works effectively and helps you all to feel like you’re on the same team. Decide on a central location, agree on how events are added, and touch base daily. When you’re all up to speed on these basics, try more experiments such as pre-blocking activities that often slip through the cracks.

Five tips for working parents.

21/01/2021

This is Biff.

This is Chip.

This is Biff and Chip's homework.

Biff and Chip are required to write down ten examples of fronted adverbials.

Biff and Chip have not a fu***ng clue what a fronted adverbial is.

This is Mum.

Mum has not a fu***ng clue what a fronted adverbial is either.

"We don't know what a fronted adverbial is," whinge Biff and Chip. "This homework is impossible. You will have to help us."

"It's not my homework, it's your homework," says Mum, thanking her lucky stars that she did not have to engage in any of this fronted adverbial bo****ks when she was at school.

This is Dad.

Dad still struggles to distinguish between a noun and a verb, and would not know a fronted adverbial if one came up and punched him in the face.

Biff and Chip think for a moment about asking Dad for help.

They decide to Google instead.

This is Mrs May.

When Mrs May went into teaching she honestly believed she would be able to spend her time helping children to love learning. And putting on plays. Mrs May loves a play. She did not realise that a love of learning would not feature on the National Curriculum at all, and that she would instead be forced to meet a series of impossible and continuously moving goalposts which successive governments would put in place, and have to teach her classes about ridiculous concepts such as fronted adverbials which, in all honesty, are only ever likely to be of use if they end up becoming professors of linguistics. Or primary school teachers.

If truth be told, Mrs May has not a fu***ng clue what a fronted adverbial is either.

This is Floppy the dog.

Floppy holds no beef with fronted adverbials.

Floppy eats the fronted adverbial homework sheet.

Floppy knows that he is a fu***ng liability, and waits to be told so.

No one is more surprised than Floppy when the entire family gather around and tell him "Oh GOOD dog Floppy."

Floppy feels this is proof positive that some good can come from fronted adverbials after all.

Later at school, Biff and Chip are, for the first time, able to legitimately use the excuse: "My dog ate my homework."

Mrs May breathes a secret sigh of relief that that is one less set of incomprehensible and entirely incorrect homework that she has to plough through, and suggests to the class that they will all put on a play instead to celebrate.

Hang in there homeschoolers 🤣🤣