Your thinking, what wait? Am I supposed to be waiting? Well, I haven’t been waiting, so should I be?

The answer is Yes, you should be waiting. You should be waiting for Custard Media Solutions’ premiere, worldwide exclusive, of their brand new promotional video!

Last Thursday afternoon, we had Seal Films turn Custard Media HQ into a Hollywood film set.  Ok well that isn’t strictly true; we had the same desks, albeit we sat in different places, same chairs and the same people.  The same people that have no experience in this kind of thing…(well except me, I was in a film once…well a deleted scene of a film…but it made the DVD).

Didn’t take us too long to film, as soon as we stopped Adam from laughing mid take and Sam shouting from the background whilst we were recording, but other than that it all went smoothly, as custard does!

We should have a few more action photos for you and some out takes as well as the edited version soon enough.

I won’t give too much away at this point, no not about my film, that’s not as exciting, about the promo.  All I will see is, watch this space.

I’m talking about the dreaded ‘Manflu’! Now, don’t laugh, maybe it’s not a ‘killer disease’ but this is a serious matter, because the women of the world don’t seem to have any sympathy when this wretched malady infests itself within the male species.

You see, Sam is one of the most hard-working, most sensible people I know…(ha!) and even in tragic times like this, he still pushes himself into work to keep the team together and educate us even more about the world of seo and online pr.

But then yesterday, it just all got a bit too much, he couldn’t take it anymore and the Manflu or ‘Samflu’ took a turn for the worse. Bedbound, helpless and dysfunctional, Sam just couldn’t make it into the office but instead like the dedicated man that he is he set up shop at home and pushed himself through with a full hard day of work (so I’m informed)!  It’s obvious that Sam is trying hard to battle it off, but for some guys, it’s just not that easy and all that you can do is wallow in sorrow as nobody comes to the rescue.  Yesterday, Emma found a quote that sums up this situation down to a tee:

“Men suffering from Man-Flu want nothing more than to get out of bed and come to work, but they are too selfless to risk spreading this awful condition amongst their friends and colleagues. In this sense, they are the greatest heroes this country has ever known.”

Manflu has even made Internet News this week, and men have been dubbed the “weaker sex” because a “minor ailment is enough to morph us into helpless babies.”  Now, don’t get me wrong, I am far from a sexist person, however, you can tell that this was written by someone who hasn’t been there, someone who just hasn’t experienced the pain and drama that we have to go through, someone who just doesn’t understand!

The following clip is the epitome of what men have to go through.  Take a look, maybe it will make ladies more aware of the kind of state we go through, and maybe you will think twice next time.

I should state before you watch, that no man was injured during the making of this video, and is inserted for educational purposes only. Women, don’t try this at home!

When our female counterparts are poorly or sick, we men can relate and know how you feel, so we wait on you, hand and foot and nurse you back to full health, and when the tables are turned, what a different story.  We get taken advantage of and I think it’s time we make a stand.

So next time one of your employees, employers, husbands or boyfriends have to pull a sicky due to the dreaded Manflu, just remember…they are off for your own good!

However, all this hard work warrants a bit of time off, and Christmas was the perfect time. It’s a whole week to chill out, to take a holiday and to just do our own thing. This is time is cherished by all of us.

But as you can imagine, coming back to HQ in the New Year, it’s busy times, phone off the hook, work to catch up with and emails to respond to.

That brings me onto today’s post rather nicely.

Emma ‘Gibbo’ Gibson is HQ’s office manager and account manager and over the Christmas period there was one particular email Emma received, that contained some work for her to do.  We had only been back a couple of days before it was the weekend and Emma received a bit of an ‘ear bashing’ because it hadn’t been done.  Not only that, but this ‘ear bashing’ took place whilst she was in her Holy Place…The Pub!

Our client heard about this and I think he felt rather guilty, because yesterday around about 4.30pm, a delivery for ‘Gibbo’ arrives.

This wasn’t your standard looking gift…this was a rather large brown box, all taped up with Emma’s name on it.

So like a little child on Christmas Day, mini squeaking to high heaven (as you will soon witness for yourselves) she proceeds to open her gift.  In true fashion, Ayman Fazeli, our online pr manager and part time camera man for Custard Media Solutions, was ready for a bit of video action!  Just see what she makes of the marshmallows…O, sorry Emma…”They’re Princess Marshmallows!”