Day in the Life: Easter Holidays

06:30 

Alarm goes off.

06:45 

Still lying in bed running through the to-do list/ child activity list/ wondering if there’s milk in the fridge.

7:15 

Breakfast – there is milk. First and second coffees of the day.

8:00 

Conference call with Team Compass – assign priorities, make a list, delegate furiously. To-do list gets longer. Realise should have delegated more.

8:20 

Leave house taking into consideration ridiculous city traffic when trying to circumnavigate approximately 3 miles in the car.

9:00 

Child 1/ Tennis lesson

9:15 

Child 2/ Swimming lesson

9:30 

Work calls in gym café while consuming 3rd coffee of the day

9:45 

Child 1 to swimming with cousins

10:00 

Child 2 to play at friend’s house (approximately 4 miles away allowing for around 20 mins in travel time)

10:30 

Home to write up pitch for new Client 1. 

11:00 

Child 1 returns, requires snack. Attempt to fit 2 x jaffa cakes, 1 x apple, 1 x ham sandwich (brown bread) on small plate. Child returns to kitchen with 1 x apple, 1 x abandoned brown bread on plate, demands more jaffa cakes.

11.15 

Leave with Child 1 to collect Child 2. Allowing approximately 45 mins for travel time covering estimated 8 miles of holiday traffic.

12:00 

Child 1 and Child 2 to cousins. Sit in for Skype call with Client 2, managing social media posts on Instagram and checking Twitter for anything “interesting”. Nothing of note, avoid reading 134 tweets involving someone shouting about #CaronnaVirus.

13:00 

Child 1 and Child 2 allowed back in car. Home for lunch.

13:30 

Children eat lunch (2 x ham sandwiches, brown bread, 2 x satsumas, 2 x bags of crisps, 1 x replacement cheese sandwich, white bread). Consume 4th and 5th coffee of the day, forget to eat.

14:00 

Trip to cinema with Child 1 and Child 2 – take train to avoid cross town traffic. Train terminates at Partick for maintenance. Change to underground. Run to cinema (now ticked off as “Today’s Cardio”) Eat giant popcorn because no lunch, surreptitiously send four Facebook messages to prospective clients during eternal adverts/trailer preamble.

16:30 

Return on train from cinema. Drop Child 1 at friend’s house for sleepover. Return home for Child 2’s friend’s arriving for overnight. Informed we have no “food” – take Child 2 to corner shop to purchase pizza, crisps and additional Haribo (me, not them) as can’t face another car journey to supermarket.

18:15 

Finish responding to 137 emails, update Instagram stories, send Client 3 an updated proposal for new account. Call with Trip Advisor account manager for Client 4 strategy.

19:00 

Cook pizza. Cook more pizza for Child 2 and friend. Talk to Child 1 on phone about specific location of googles for Easter swim camp. 

20:00 

Write proposal for Client 5 suggesting new SEO approach, social media platform improvement and branding alignment. Remember the pizza’s still in the oven.

21:30 

Encourage Child 1 and friend to go to sleep. Turn on Netflix, pour large gin and tonic. 

21:40 

Encourage Child 1 and friend to go to sleep. Remember gin and tonic is still in kitchen.

22:40 

Turn off all lights so that Child 1 and friend will go to sleep.

23:00 

Silence

23:30 

Drink gin and tonic.

23:45 

Go to bed

00:00 

Let cat out. Back to bed. 

00:15 

Lie awake for 45 minutes planning Client 6 strategy in head while playing “calming” sleep meditation app on headphones.

*** Repeat variation on a theme for two weeks. ***