I have loved all the West Ham success this week. The result, the Moyes dancing and his dad and also the fans. Them singing “you are just a shit Big Ben” at a random clock in Prague cracked me up. Fairly SFW
To you it’s meh, to me, it’s awesome. Had to plait my daughters hair today, on my own, for the first time (for a school thing). We were both nervous AF. When done, she ran to the mirror and shouted “daddy, it’s amazing”. I nearly cried, I’m 41! Let me have this moment yeah.
And you can guess the next bit.
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Today, I went for my COVID Jab... and ... there he was! He had retired but come back as a volunteer to do jabs.
TLDR:The Dr who saved me at 21, just gave me my COVID jab. And I am, freaked, right, out by that.
Morning legends. My Twitter game is shit right now. I’m going through a “thing”. Lost me dad last week. Sorting the house clearance now. Full of emotion. If ur parents are still with us, drop them a message right now. Nothing dramatic... just hi. Normal service will resume soon
This is my sister. She married her life partner Nadia today. She faced some absolute shite in her life and they have overcome and are nailing it! I haven’t made that speech yet!
Good morning to one and all.
I am watching that
#Schofield
thing right now on
@BBCiPlayer
. My gut feel, in
#crisiscomms
#PR
terms; he has done this too soon. Before everything has fully emerged.
We always say, if planning a comeback, do via one initial big hitting interview.
How sad am I.
Sunday and I'm praising
@sainsburys
PR team for a fantastic
#crisiscomms
update email from their CEO.
Doesn't blame a third party ☑️
Details a "sorry" voucher ☑️
Gives assurance all fixed ☑️
Thanks staff for their resilience ☑️
Great comms by Sainsbury's team.
ANOTHER hard day. We closed the offices down for a 2nd time & the sadness in people's eyes as they said "see you next year" was fucking savage to take. Its for the greater good and I'm all for it... but "in that moment*" it was tough to see the team so upset. I have a great team!
Morning. I somehow forgot it was our business birthday today. 17 years old!!! HOW? Anyway, I walk in to a surprise bash and I actually nearly cried! This team are amazing. I’m blown away!
Darling Daughter. “Dad can you put your funeral coat on and stand next to me for a picture”… next thing I know I’m Gru offa Minions! The cheek of it!
#halloween
🎃💛Have a great weekend everyone!
A new record for me at a networking event. Got to the door… thought “what the fuck am I doing”… turned around and left. I need to go on a socialising course 😳😟
I’ve spoken at events all round the world. Tomorrow I’m doing the Father of the Bride speech for my sister’s wedding (Dad rather selfishly passed away a few years ago). I am shitting it. He was a scouser and as such had amazing story telling skills. He would have been awesome 😳
It’s all positive as fuck on the socials innit. Well, let me have a rare moment of honesty. Personally, my year has been utter utter shit. BUT, this lot have kept me going! Their drive, creativity, sass and all round awesomeness always inspires me.
#XmasBash
#NotHadADrop
!
I reserve this term for special times but today has been a thunderc*nt of a day and I’m having a gin. No, more than usual, agency side drama, not feeling down etc etc, just a truly shit day overall. Cheers to you all
@wightlinkferry
I hope the person who featured knows how much love they are getting here on The Twitter/X for their work. Kudos all round. Brilliant work.
I listened to The News Agents podcast episode this am about Boris Johnson’s lies. It’s is fascinating when it’s all peaced together. Also learned, never go on a stag do organised by
@maitlis
🤣
7.48am. Viewed twice. I’m calling it:
The vape
Lack of eye contact
The overly dramatic pauses
Doing it too soon in the news story cycle
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It will join the Eurostar MD and BP CEO (oil spill) interviews as examples that
#crisiscomms
trainers will use of how not to do it.
#schofield
Good morning ya worldies. Eldest son’s birthday today. He puts up with some absolute bollocks every day (mainly from me) and is a right little legend. In this pic, at me sisters wedding, he decided he looked like a medical insurance salesman and tried flogging it to attendees.
15 yrs ago today, Jilly and I set up 10Yetis. Fucking bonkers! Was thinking of doing a “what I have learnt” post but I always think they look a bit wanky/vanity? Should I? There are too many ppl to thank but
@alansmoore
@nickswan
@ShazzaYeti
are right at the top! I love you all
2 yrs ago, out of the blue, his daughter applied for an internship. The name stuck out, she came to work for us. My first words to her "your dad saved my life". I probs freaked her out, especially when I brought my kids in to meet "the daughter of the guy who saved daddy".
Wow wow wow. Blown away by
@Carra23
sending me a signed good luck message for doing my first ever triathlon at the weekend (to raise money for leukaemia charity
@CLICSargentFund
). A class act and my boyhood hero! Cheers
@ShazzaYeti
@JC23Foundation
Become a school governor they said.
See the world they said.
Asked how I could help them.
“Have you thought about directing traffic/parking on the open day”.
About my level. 🤣🤣🤣
Didn’t even get a high vis!
Morning morning dream team. Not only is it Friday but it is also my twins last ever day at Primary School. I'M FREEEEEEEEE. Look at the little cuties when they first started!
On a new biz call to a posh AF banker/VC type.
Boy Twin 2 wanders in... “Dad i have tried twice but i just can’t get it to flush away”... awkward silence
Banker: “do you need to go and deal with that”.
Me, "no"...
I need to schools to reopen.
I believe that the Royal Family uses The Times of London to announce a new child. I use the PR equivalent; my
@therealprmoment
Good and Bad
#PR
column. Good PR for
@MelEVillegas
. Everyone say hello to Sebastian, Cecil for short.
Nothing screams “forced office fun” more than a dickhead boss making some of his amazing team some pancakes. The rest of the team where very much “fuck that”
The poor kids and family.
If the UK journo chat groups are true… this was announced today because some arsehole USA media got hold of her medical records illegally and were about to splash it.
She had no choice but to announce it herself to stop the splash.
Horrid world.
Fast forward 20 years (3yrs ago) and Dr's thought the disease was back. EEK. BUT THAT SAME DR WAS STILL AT THE HOSP. He was now the head of that dept. He saw my name, came to see me, confirmed it wasn't back, and FIXED ME AGAIN. Woooo
Good morning everyone… I know I have kept it fairly quiet but… TODAY is my birthday. Nearly Jesus 2.0!
I love you all so much. You never fail to make me smile and in today’s day and age, this is important. ❤️❤️❤️
We are 14 years old today... Four-bloody-teen! I don’t know either!! One guy who has been with us all the way is
@alansmoore
- mentor and accountant. Worth a follow and always about to give advice - 14 years!!! WTAF
#PRnotER
Meanwhile, daughter, 11, just won gold medal in the entire south west gymnastics tumbling competition. She now goes through to compete in the Great Britain final. Pls allow me this
#AlphaDad
moment. Very proud…
And these three bossed it too. My daughter did a reading and she secretly learnt it and wowed every one. The boys were head of covid mask distribution. They did it with panache. I love you all.
I am all set for home skooling... i have instructed the kids to only refer to me as Mr Barr during school hours, I have put up posters about not running between the living room and the bathroom and advised them that only a max of 2 kids can visit the snack cupboard at one time.
Today is the start of a new thing wot i is doing. 30
#DigitalPR
&
#SocialMedia
tips in 30 days*. Short form video, in my usual idiot style. Hope it acts as a refresher for experienced folk & a handy guide for
#PR
students
*working days only, i'm not savage!
Not feat
@CarrieRosePR
These 6 people are basically our creative team (design, vid, web). They are meeting to discuss how our agency Instagram account can be better run. I currently run our agency Instagram account... I was not invited to the meeting.
#BeenFired
Then, a young Dr who had studied rare diseases did his rotation in the hosp I was at, spotted what it was and over the next 3 years, he bloody fixed me!
Rare for me to be lost for words... My neighbour, who i have never spoken to before, just brought round a home cooked cake for me and the kids. She just said she wanted to... How bloody kind is that!
FROM US WITH LOVE: To help you come up with
#PR
and
#Social
content ideas here is our Days of the Year Calendar (now in its 5th year!). All the silly and not so silly national days (shares loved).
You wanted more honesty: That awkward moment when you get nominated for a
#PR
award for a client that just canned you 😀😀😀. Still love them, still miss them
@hillarysblinds
Probably the biggest project in our 17 year company history going on right now at the
@The_IoD
for
@Masam_ENG
… loads of our team here as well. Who says we can’t do serious
Morning. Some of the strategic & crisis comms we have been working on recently is surreal, eg a national bank, a foreign Government & a FTSE 100. But I hardly slept last night as my kids local rugby club has a big announcement today & managing it has stressed me right out 🤣
This morning, at 6am ish, this article went live about my
@vinted
account and the light hearted descriptions I write… turns out (who knew), not everyone is a fan. 🤣🤣🤣 A steady flow of abuse has ensued.
Love it… brightened up my sat morning. Cheers
@JanetHughesNews
🙌🙌
Our agency will have been going for 15 years next month. I just wrote my first press release in ages & used the wrong version of "site" in the word "websight". FFS. We have only lasted 15 yrs thanks to
@ShazzaYeti
. Also, thanks
@SamSummersPR
for not saying anything!
Good morning everyone, happy muggy Monday. It my twins birthday today. 9! They are bloody bonkers but fricking awesome. Chuck them a hello if you get a moment in your day 🔥❤️
PR is such a weird industry and people do some really weird things. This is not a cryptic tweet. I just think that sometimes, it needs saying. As you were. Be kind everyone.
Morning morning. These crazy little twin buggers are 11 today. Informed The Social that, all being well, I intend to keep them for at least one more year 😀😍😀
Please… someone recognise this next level comedy.
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In the local deli, my GF asked “what’s your favourite panini”.
I replied: “probably Mexico 86 because I loved the hair cuts”.
It took me 5 straight mins to stop laughing at my own joke.
Honestly… I’m next level comedy right…
No, YOU are crying. This is my
#bff4eva
's daughter, Isabel. Ringing the bell today to signal the successful completion of her Leukaemia treatment... What a warrior!
The best kind of
#CV
... on a bottle of Prosecco! Kudos
@LaurenFletch97
. If you want to work in
#PR
I always bang on about doing quirky things to get spotted. Just sending an email to a generic address doesn't cut it anymore.
#PRStudent
I am the last person on earth you should ever listen to advice from but, I am giving some out anyway.
Nothing bad will happen if you turn off social media tonight. I can see and feel the tension rising with all the speculation. Im a dad of 3, I’m just gonna turn it all off.
From a
#crisisComms
angle, the BBC is not playing this situation out very well. You would have thought 1. They would have learnt from other scandals and 2. they would have known this was coming and had a crisis comms plan in place.
Them asking themselves for comment and not
Morning everyone. Wish me luck. Today I am taking an actual day off to do a small building repair job on our house I’m selling or the buyer won’t buy it. No builders will do it cos it’s a small-ish job and “covid”. I’m shit at DIY and bricking it. See you on the other side
Remember when i pushed the elderly couple's car out of the flood water a while back? 🌧️
The horror when my eldest attends the local senior school & gets this as his English classwork! I feel so bad for him & will never do anything like it again 😀 He has taken it in good spirits
AHAAAA... Here I am on
@BBCWorld
- the people on holiday in Turkey are now fully up to speed on my thinking re the BBC drama and
#CrisisComms
. h/t
@joshtwheeler
- All from a quick WhatsApp this am! I am told it is getting syndicated. Sorry.
#SDFaceInaHDWorld
My partners family are Argentinian/Italian. They have a rather slapdash approach to risk and health and safety. Here is the son, on a plank of wood, balanced on a can of paint, balanced on a ladder… retrieving items from the loft. It’s like the start of TV show Casualty… 🤣
Lads… so we all know and having researched it heavily… staying up until 2am, gossiping and drinking with some industry legends and then having a flight at 9am the next day is never a good idea! Pass it on. Ps. Morning
Are you ready? I AM READY. Our
#DaysOfTheYear
calendar is now live! 7th year on the bounce and this time it has key
#newsjacking
dates added and there is an online interactive version! ps, the supporting video is the nuts (SFW, sound on)!
@mrsjennifield
@BBCiPlayer
Would normally say 12 but, as you say, the news pace at the min makes me think 6 would be fine.
Why the gap?
1. Allows all the bad news to have come out. no more surprises
2. Ppl will be interested to see what he is up to in 6 months
3. The gap means media would be fighting to
#pr
people get ready. Just had the “working on this will be just as beneficial for your profile as ours so we think this should be no fee” . It’s a buyers market, I get that but...
Just been reminded of the time we pitched to Amazon (we obvs didn’t win or you would have ALL fucking heard about it) and I told them this joke and suggested they sent it to Bezos:
Q: What do you call two monkeys that share an Amazon account?
A: Prime mates
We didn’t hear back 🤣
Good morning ya beauties. I met six (socially distanced) friends yday. None of them use twitter. They were astounded by these good morning tweets. I tried to explain that I loved you all and owed it to you all. They now think I’m odder than they did before. Anyway, happy thurs 💋