I LOVE THIS DESK
I am currently sat at the the best...
....kept desk in the office.
It belongs to Carmella who works on Sarah's show.
It's exactly the same as everyone else's desk but it's soooooo much tidier. It's so tidy in fact it actually looks like a different desk. It's blissfully calm, even it's grey colour has something chic about it.
I love writing the blog at this desk. I don't have a desk you see. When I arrive here every day I am assigned a station. I am "set up" somewhere or other.
"Oh hi darling, I've set you up over there !"
When I am "set up" over here the day immediately feels better.
And listen to this...
I just booked my first guest for The Sunday Supplement. Sat here, I am sat opposite Claire The Sunday Supp researcher, she was talking along with Big Ant (her producer) about a guest for this week, so I made a suggestion and she said whooppee could I make that happen. Secretly now under pressure I made a call and hey presto the guy said yes, I had actually booked a guest.
So this Sunday at 11.30. Fiona Bruce will be saying
"....and now we welcome detective seargent Hatahaway, Laurence Fox to the programme."
Listen y'all he's a very intelligent, funny, talented bloke and he's in one of the only decent shows left on the telly.
Now who can I sort them out with for next week ?
CLP.
2008.
X.
Comments
Cor - wish I had a desk like that! I'd love to work in an ocean of calmness but unfortunately chaos reigns! Heigh-ho.
Greetings to all from an extremely windy (oo-er) North East :-)
CLP
Just goes to prove....it's not what you know...it's who you know ;-)
Know what you mean re tidy desks
I feel so much better after we have had our "friday tidy" session in the office each week.
Each friday afternoon...we sort out all the rubbish...clean the desks...make sure bins and cups are cleaned and emptied and get the filing up to date
Yo Chris Man,
Bingo Star ere.
I'm glad your in a good mood terdee.
I'm not normally down but am feeling very depressed terdee.
Why you may ask?
I'm depressed 'cos i've 'eard anti - depressants don't work!!!!!!!
Chow!
Good afternoon Chris...
I have not been on here for a while, so hi to all. I listen to all your shows on the weekend as I am at work when you are on.
I just wanted to let everyone know that the book you spoke of yesterday, you can get online at this link FOR FREE :
It is the whole book - and it is not a large book .... so you can print it out at your leisure.
Keep up the great work Chris and I am on the bandwagon baby with the Fountain Of Youth!! I have already started counting backwards so this will confirm what I have said all along !! That I AM 29 - or will be soon - right? You promise?? :-)
Love to all
Joan
Hi CLP
Ahhh... clean desks.... tidy drawers.... polished angle poise....
An old teacher of mine once commented that he could tell a lot about a person by how tidy their desk was. I think that's true. I'd bet that Carmella is organised in other areas of her life too, and the fact that you coveted her desk Chris, suggests that you may not be so organised but would dearly love to be !!
Keep watching this space for the next chapter of deskology (or is it desktherapy?)
And CLP managing to book Mr Fox reminds me of an adage that must not be forgotten:
It's not what you know.
It's not even who you know.
It's what you know about who you know!!
Tata for now
PeeBee
It must be nice to have people like you have to call on hope Billie is ok i am sure he will be a big hit on the programme
Good to hear you are in such a good mood so how come someone with your high profile does`nt have his own desk to work from and you need to use hot desks all the time sounds like you will need to get that one sorted out
looking forward to the show
Hi Chris
Tidy desk is a tidy mind!!!!
Each time i read your blog i have to go of to search Google to see who or were you are blogging to me about. Would it be possible to highlight topics so we can follow a link to say wikipedia etc. i.e today i had to Google Laurence Fox then knew who he was straight away.
Grey is the new black?
Matt
Anyone.....
Me? I do it.
No idea what they do on the Sunday Supplement, but I could talk them thru the 5 Secrets of the Fountain of Youth....
Talking of which, I'm Loving No 1.
I spin and spin and spin...
And then I'm sick! But they are so right - I feel so much better after that.
DWNB
Thanks Toronto Joan - am in the process of printing off the 56 pages of the book now!!! Tried the Phoebe spin and fell over like everyone else on the blog. Laughed a bit too much and p**d myself - only to be expected having had the big C and check up tubes every 3 months for the last 2 years. Still worth a good laugh though A?
Oh dear - good job I work for myself - "Printer cartridge low" - will take it with me on my next Phoebe spin to give it a bit more life.
Tidy desk - I wish!!! Tesco & M&S internet vouchers here somewhere!
Well now what's all this.
Sunday Supplement? Wha? Ah no I'm back after 2 weeks from the Promised Land, where they enter turkeys into the Eurovision and Ireland's Biggest Ball Of String into the National Records, build Port Tunnels too small to fit lorries through and hold the Toilet Duck Comedy Awards on an uninhabited island in February, and I feel like I've come outa coma.
I've some catchin' up to do it seems.
This desk dilemma. I don't have a desk either. A desk is a reponsibility I want only slightly less than I want a husband, a nasty rash or a camel.
It goes back to my school days when desks had inkwells and lids like the jaws of an alligator, and I nearly lost all me fingers by trying to hide me nail varnish within said furniture before the letch of a Geography teacher slimed up to me and sat on it.
I was also traumatically outed as being the artist of the graffiti depicting the Senior Mistress wearing a moustache and a Bolshevik's helmet and brandishing a baseball bat during a spot inspection by the art teacher during Operation Tufty, looking for stolen sable brushes and Cow Gum.
Happy Days. Ooo got to go; the daughter Lucrezia Borgia is here and looks like she means business.
A Bientot.
Clodagh.xx
I too am sat at a desk that I love very much! It's only calm and tidy because everything that belongs on or near it is in another room. But it has an amazing view and I like sitting here.
Ok guys and girls, I've decided I need to go and do something because I'm slowly going stir-crazy sat at my beautifully calm and tidy desk looking out at the hills. Had a (teary) chat to the husband at lunchtime and I've decided to go and try and find some part-time work at last. Question is, as I'm now old enough to have a career but don't, how on earth do I go about asking in tiny little local shops if they've any part-time work available? What's the correct protocol? Anything I should in no circumstances whatsoever say? Do I need a CV? Because mine says I'm qualified and have experience to be a secretarial or administrative supervisor, which I have no desire at all to ever do again. (I have a lot of respect for CtD, and I hope Day 2 has been just as good!) I'm a tiny bit scared. Maybe it's a bit like going back into the dating game after so many years - j I'd offer advice if I knew any but I've been out of that game for some time now. Writing out letters and sending out CVs is one thing but walking brazenly into a shop is another...
A quick hi to Joannie from Toronto - fellow Manc -hope you're well and had a happy birthday and New Year - attempted to send a greeting but the blog police were on duty all New Year's Eve - in my neck of the woods - and couldn't post.
Great to hear from you.
Wilsmar
Chris
How about keeping the wonderful Sunday Supplement as it is (papers first half hour, entertainment second half hour, big guest in hour two) when Michael Ball takes over in April.
Terrible rumours are about that the show Parky made so great will not be the same from April.
Use your powers Chris. We need our Sunday papers etc with the Sunday coffee!!
Ah Clodagh, I'm so glad you're back - bet the turkey wins!! If it stood for PM I'd vote for it!!
Bingo, was just about to give you a big virtual hug for being sad then you made me laugh!
So have a ((hug)) anyway :-)
Hello all!
Txxxx
Ah Clodagh, I'm so glad you're back - bet the turkey wins!! If it stood for PM I'd vote for it!!
Bingo, was just about to give you a big virtual hug for being sad then you made me laugh!
So have a ((hug)) anyway :-)
Hello all!
Txxxx
By the way Jeni, what a lovely position to be in - working cos you want to not cos you have to!! If I were you I'd deffo just pop into all the shops you like and say if they ever need any extra part time staff you'd love to work for them and give them your contact details!!
Hi Chris
Glad is was not last Sunday, other wise we may have lost our second round in the Sprit FM pub quiz. Laurence and Billie were a great help, both are very intelligent.
Love the show Melody
Ahh Carmella! ...apparently that's not her REAL name (ask Sarah and her dawn patrollers!). Just as long as you tidy up after you CLP - you wouldn't want an irate Carmella Di Clemente after you!
Speaking of tidy...this new ´óÏó´«Ã½ home page is SO much neater! You can get rid of all the boring stuff and have a quick link to Chris' blog right at the top! Great!
Hi Wilsmar....
I will try again, I posted again earlier but I guess the blog police got to it first!!
Thanks for my birthday wishes, my ...you have a great memory!! I do too, it is just short..LOL....Happy New Year to you too.
I have forgotten where you live now? How are things with you?
If you would like, send me an email...if you put your cursor over my name you will get to my website....
Take care
Joan
How about keeping the wonderful Sunday Supplement as it is (papers first half hour, entertainment second half hour, big guest in hour two) when Michael Ball takes over in April.
Terrible rumours are about that the show Parky made so great will not be the same from April.
Use your powers Chris. We need our Sunday papers etc with the Sunday coffee!!ow (Sound of Music at 7.30)
Clodagh, did you hear the song when you were back in the auld sod?????? Its so funny, he slags off Sir Tels wig and River dance, hes a legend, Ive heard Danas not too happy tho!
Howya BigBump. Yes I did indeed hear it, it was impossible to avoid it; although if I'm brutally honest, whereas it's a typically Irish piss-take and therefore should be hilarious, I don't actually think it's that funny. It's one of those Trying Too Hard things, you know.
That's the thing about the Eurovision. What makes it funniest is that most of the entrants are so dreadfully kitsch and don't realise they're hilarious. Actively turning on the comedy in that context doesn't do it for me, I'm afraid.
Maybe it's me, maybe I've been spoiled by Podge & Rodge or maybe I'm a bit protective of our Tel and am a bit uncomfortable with that reference if you get my drift but no, I'm afraid it's Ireland Nil Points here.
But I'll still be watching the thing, behind me fingers, with the GBF in raptures and laughin' me socks off no doubt. And I hope you do, too, because it would be a bland world indeed without such marvellous eejits. Hurrah for them.
Clodagh.xx
Well did the earth move for you darlings?
Here in MK I was woken by what felt and sounded like a juggernaut slamming it's brakes on and locked wheels bouncing down the road.
Mrs DD sat bolt upright, mumbled and laid back down and went back to sleep, I was waiting for the sounds of sirens.
DD out
at last...
.....the earth moved in the marital bed - hehe.
I slept through it only to be woken up by MrsW who then got me to call someone at work to see what was happening???
As for desks, well I've never really had one but I would be a mixture of tidy, coffee cups and mayhem I imagine??
Hope you're all well out there, anyone seen or heard from Em M lately?
or Hazel?
Bonnet de douche
KWx
Good morning everyone.
I too was woken up around 1 - 1.15 this am in deepest dorset thought was having nightmare and only found from Breakfast news about the earthquake but then thought - hang on I live in Dorset how did it affect me so far away from Lincolnshire?
Cheryl hope day 2 went well.
Gingembre - congrats on getting a date for your knees at long last - oh and for spurs.
Anyone know the whereabouts of Hazel is she on holiday with Badger?
Must dash off - Dan congrats on the 1st date and arf 1st record.
Phoenix
I hate this desk.......
.....back at work today.
Thanks guys for the support. Mr Nasty came in to the office for a chat before I left work on Monday. He said that he hadn't been wrong and I told him that I was easily intimidated. He then told me that I have an 'air of a victim' about me. Great. But he's right.
Not sure whether to leave and get a new job straight away or leave and be an 'at home mum' until little man starts full time in September.
Then boss comes in this morning being nice and I feel guilty for wanting to leave. Bit like a bad marriage I suppose!
Jeni, my eldest was looking for part time work recently and every shop that he went in to asked him to drop a CV off. It may be a good idea to take some with you just in case. Hope you are feeling better today.
Better get on with some work
Love to all
Debbie x x
Have been Phoebe spinning for quite some time now. I can manage 10 without falling over.
I have to stand very very still for about 10 minutes after wards.
Cool.
DWNB
I can't believe I slept through the quake! All my friends up in Manchester have statuses reflecting the fact that their whole households were up bleary eyed making a brew afterwards, some terrified, some bewildered, and then some others who also managed to sleep right through and are upset to have missed it. Maybe down here near the south coast we are just too far away for it to feel like a juggernaut outside the house although I'm quite glad about that because I have my doubts as to whether this old cottage would have survived intact!
I do remember the last time I felt an earthquake, that was back when I was living in Manchester although I don't remember how long ago it was. Few years ago (just checked, twas Sept 2002). Felt like some invisible giant had just run through the house. Weird.
Desk is still tidy although the clutter is slowly invading.
Happy Hump Day all, downhill all the way to Friday now. Hurrah!
xxJeni
PS Hope you're feeling less blue today Debbie, Bingo, PP et al...
PPS Biggles Mum you've made me laugh out loud! I tried some of the exercises this morning and failed miserably but at least I got a laugh out of them :) I shall be spinning with the husband when he gets home this evening!
PPPS Debbie, go for it! What have you got to lose? Mr Nasty, that's what - and you'll be well rid. Go for it love!
undergoing some MAJOR life laundry whilst I am home this week - I shall be knackered and glad to get back to work. Who knows I "might" have a clean desk too by the end of the week........
Ello,
Is the blog in operational usage terdee??????
Chow!