Marvling Blog

The MB team triumphed! When the announcement for the most prestigious award of the night came, the biggest cheer came from the MB tables. Marv's long suffering partner cracked open the bubbly and i...

Moll brought in an unwanted tree and the MB team lost no time getting into the Christmas Spirit. Marv and Ling who were out having fun at the accountants came back to a tree decorated with reject m...

The atmosphere has reached fever pitch at MBHQ. With the awards ceremony imminent, everyone has been going a bit crazy. Ling bought over £200 worth of make up and then her long suffering partner...

The whole MB team were very busy this week. With their eye firmly on what's important everything revolved around getting outfits for the up and coming awards. It is black tie and Marv and Ling's lo...

Ling and Marv were making movies this week demonstrating how to do the Magic tricks in the new It's Magic Box. Ling has written instruction leaflets with diagrams to put in the box, but they are so...

Ling decided it would be a nice, team building idea to introduce Employee of the week, but this already much coveted position has induced a change of atmosphere at MB HQ. The once friendly, office ...

Employee of the week goes to Shirley who not only volunteered her granddad's vintage top hat for the It's Magic photoshoot but also designed a Blue Peter style target poster to inspire the whole MB...

The whole team is back from school holidays. Some relaxed, some tanned, some bruised, but all ready to start the busy Christmas season. Nell was first out of the blocks, grabbing 2500 Christmas Kis...

Okay. Marv and Ling are techno-phobes. But they have bitten the bullet and are publishing their first Email-newletter. It is a competition to win their new Veggie Volts in a matchbox and whilst Mar...

MB HQ was visited by a proper business man today. It was the first official visit to the new offices by an outsider (Nell's jujutsu partner and Moll's husband don't count) and Marv was concerned ab...

It has been a full on few weeks. Ling has been decorating the new office - painting, screwingand hammering accompanied by lots of swearing. Marv has been transferring everything from her house to t...

The keys to the new MB HQ were handed to Marv and Ling today. Unfortunately Ling's track record with keys is not good (she has to wear her important keys around her neck on a bight red lanyard and ...

Yesterday Moll turned up at MB HQ with a fully fledged matchbox prototype for Mother's Day. She moaned that it had taken a couple of hours to develop. Marv and Ling who have been trying to do a sim...

Ling unveiled the first draft of the work rota today as everyone will be having regular hours this year to prevent Marv from bringing out her grindstone and putting people's noses on it every spare...

Preparations for moving into the new MB HQ start this Saturday. Marv and Ling met the landlord and got the low down on important housekeeping matters. Marv is very territorial which is causing some...

Yesterday was the first ever Marvling Bros Staff meeting. Ling opened the meeting by announcing the new staff uniform. Designed by Ling to reflect the company's Essex roots, the limited budget and ...

Hard work maketh the man, so all the MB team were given lots of filling and packing over the Christmas period whilst Marv and Ling took two weeks off as Marv doesn't want to be a man and Ling is ma...

We are officially closed and at the same time off to pastures new. Up til now Marv's house has been the main focus of the action but now she has got fed up with running out of bread and loo paper (...

The MB elves have been so busy posting, packing, stamping, sacking and eating biscuits and ensuring everyone gets their matchboxes in time for Christmas, that their homes have been sadly lacking in...

14 days to go til Christmas break but all sorts of ailments are hitting the MB workforce. Everyone has got paper cuts from boisterous boxes and evil envelopes, but more unusual complaints such as '...

To get everyone into the Christmas spirit Marv has been playing a selection of good old fashioned Christmas melodies, but after the 50th rendition of 'Santa Baby' (She has been playing the same pla...

It has reached tipping point at MB HQ. Reinforcements on the home front (post room) have been brought in in the shape of Jane and as the stocks of ammunition get lower, everyone is working overtime...

It started with Black Friday and ended with Cyber Monday. Thousands of orders were dispatched and inbetween the chaos, it was Marvling Bros Xmas night out. 9 out of 13 of the MB cohort converged in...

It is getting serious at Marvling HQ. Nell, Sal and Moll were all demanding more responsibility so jobs were hastily created by Ling (well job titles - everyone is still stuffing envelopes but with...

Ling was extremely agitated yesterday when she thought Nell wanted to leave the company. This week the post workload has increased and Nell has been taken off the Beer Garden to stuff envelopes. Li...

This time last year, there were tense scenes at Marvling HQ when vital supplies were held up in the post i.e. bubbles envelopes. To avoid similar scenes (Marv pacing up and down the street whilst S...

Disaster struck yesterday when the Hugs ran out. Moll who needs lots of Hugs to get her through the day had to take the day off to avoid a panic attack and Marv put on her determined face as ...

Less than 1250 hours til Christmas and Marv is putting everyone's nose to the grindstone as the orders increase. Ling has made nose comforters for everyone as a result (made from her recycled socks...

There have been revolutionary mutterings at Marvling HQ. Nell, Sal and Moll have been packing Hot Stuff for the last few weeks (no easy task as labels have to be levelled up, corks tested and bottl...

Packing up for Christmas is well under way, but Marv has noticed some strange behavioural going-ons at Marvling Bros Towers. Sal, who is packing Christmas Cheer is even more cheerful than she usual...

For months the Bros. have been meaning to make alternative postal arrangements ever since they tried to buy 1000 large letter stamps at their local post office and was told that they had bought all...

In the beginning there was Hot Stuff. Some said it was hot. Some said it was not. Some said nothing - their tongues were too numb. But now we bring you the undisputed champion of chillis 2014 - Car...

It has been  busy year at Marvling Bros Ltd. Notonthehighstreet in particular has completely swamped the company with work to the point that the official Marvling website has been a bit neglected. ...

It has been a nerve wracking time for the company as last week a visit from the Special Investigations Unit decided to give the premises a visit. Questions were asked including 'What exactly is a s...

Last week Marv had the most awful fright when she came home to find the FSA (Food Standards Agency to you and me) at her front door. Apparently they thought the Marvling Bros. had a shop premises a...

The Christmas period brought thousands of matchboxes into people's homes, bringing love, laughter and luxury all over the world. Hot stuff exceeded all expectations selling over ten times predictio...