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Currently I am in the kitchen cooking a load of chicken for hubby to eat during the week. The little square table is cluttered with stuff as is the counter beside the sink (I'll do the dishes later). I have no view from here but if I got up and looked out the window I'd see a car park surrounding a little communal green area that is kept nice and tidy by the company that looks after the development.The dog just came in and sniffed around trying to find the source of the chicken smell. He won't be getting any.
I'm in the back room upstairs, installing software on my iMac. Earlier today I was in town on my iPad, and later tonight I might be downstairs in front of the telly on my iPad.If there was daylight, out of the window of my early 90s mid-terrace cornflake box I would see a small unkempt garden that has been rendered almost uninhabitable by an obnoxious amount of neighbourhood cat shit. I hate cats.
Geoff calls it my cave. It really is quite a cave.I'm under a bed, facing a wall and I have a kitchen work top as a very long desk. Either side of me is two Ikea drawers and I am literally squared into a little space beside my black PC (why did I go for freaking black again? I can't see shite without 3 lights on!)
Louise-Lesley (Elle) wrote: "Geoff calls it my cave. It really is quite a cave.I'm under a bed, facing a wall and I have a kitchen work top as a very long desk. Either side of me is two Ikea drawers and I am literally square..."
Have you considered one of those handy little halogen lamps you can tie round your head like a miner's lamp?
They're all LEDs these days. But bloody useful nonetheless!
Tim wrote: "I'm in the back room upstairs, installing software on my iMac. Earlier today I was in town on my iPad, and later tonight I might be downstairs in front of the telly on my iPad.If there was daylig..."
I hear lion shit is supposed to be very good for repelling cats .. I wonder if it attracts lions though?
On the shelf about two feet in front of my eyes and up a bit there is a book with a yellow cover NEURO-LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING FOR DUMMIES .. hmm, maybe a hint from my wife. Deffo not my book.
R.J. wrote: "Louise-Lesley (Elle) wrote: "Geoff calls it my cave. It really is quite a cave.I'm under a bed, facing a wall and I have a kitchen work top as a very long desk. Either side of me is two Ikea draw..."
What a fantastic idea! it would probably be the best idea. it's so dark in here.
Tried it. Tried all sorts of different smelly things: Didn't work. Electrified chicken wire might do the trick though...
There's a box set of MADMEN on a shelf above .. yep, that is deffo my wife's Hmmm, now I look, there is a fine patina of dust on most of the shelves in my den here.
I also picked black drawers - they attract dust like CRAZYi do them once a week on a sunday and it looks like i haven't cleaned them for months
I am typing at my desk. Its covered in stuff. I have a printer desk which is covered in stuff. The floor around me is covered in stuff. The entire living room is covered in piles of stuff. On the wall in front of me to my right, between the window and the door, is a painting. It was done by my mother and is of 3 candles and a vase of flowers in a church window. It is not covered in stuff.
Sounds much like my house - even the piles of stuff are covered in stuff...
I'm typing at my work desk in Oman. Got three computer screens in front of me, one loaded up with Facebook, one with Goodreads and one with Twitter. I do a quick ninja style close of the webpages whenever the boss looks.
What, Michael, no boss key? I'm shocked.
I'm now in work.I have 2 screens in front of me (1 with Goodreads and the other with actual work stuff). I have 6 huge TV screens to my left on the wall blazing down on me radiating light and heat, displaying various webpages showing the state of all our systems. Although 1 of them is just displaying a white page, should probably fix that.
There's a lot of stuff around but my desk is mostly clear. I have perfume, lip gloss, 2 bottles of hand cream and 1 bottle of hand sanitiser on my desk. Oh! Almost forgot my Minnie Mouse mug :o)
Windows are behind me, as is my boss and the guy in the office who avoids me.
There's not really much else to tell you about my work place.
I'm in the office right now, half a dozen clients' promotional desk calendars clustered round the monitor until I decide which I like best enough to actually use. Spare copies of the last issue of the magazine underneath my keyboard, to remind me that I need to post them to an advertiser.When I came in, they'd installed some updates overnight and the IT guy swapped my mouse to the right hand side of my keyboard again. I fear I will never be able to express the extent to which this irritates me without sounding petty.
I may do this again this evening from home. Rather different.
I'm sitting on my sofa in my lounge with my laptop on one of those little folding plastic tables, which is just right as you can adjust the height and it pushes around easily. There's enough room for the mouse next to it, which I have to use as the buttons and the finger pad don't work on the laptop. It's an old secondhand one and a few things don't work on it, but it's better than nothing. As long as I can surf the web and get on our forum I'm alright.
I have my porridge bowl to one side of the PC .. my 15 yr old has an English gcse module this morning and woke with a gripe .. so I had to drive him in .. my porridge is now stone cold and I am sooooo late
I always post from my end of the sofa (which reclines) with my laptop on my lap top! On my right is a small coffee table which contains my kindle and the latest cup of tea/coffee as my whim dictates. on the cushion on my left is my diary. Continuing to look left I can see (past a couple of budgies) into the front garden. Right looks into the dining room. Chickens beyond that!
I am still in bed and posting on my tablet. I can hear birds in the chimney. Was an amazing squawking a couple of minutes ago - not sure what is going on. Apart from that its very quiet here.
I'm posting from a classroom. On my iPad.No class in here at the moment so it's very quiet.
To my left is a window overlooking the car park where I can see wet, slushy snow falling.
I'm sitting at a makeshift desk drinking a glass of sparkling water with fresh lemon and trying not to swallow the pips.I should be doing promo stuff for my ebook, but chatting on Goodreads, facebook and Blog is much more fun...
I am on a comfy chair curled up with the laptop on the arm of it. I have a coffee table to the side of me with yesterdays cup beside it. To the other side there is a blanket Kist with my clutter. Piles of books etc. The light is poor so all the lamps are on and it is chilly so I must light the stove but I am too lazy to go out for logs and it is cold out there.
I have a laptop so no fixed place. At the minute I'm in the coldest room of the house, laptop on a table full random stuff, facing a wall with two stormy sea paintings. Just like Justine, should be doing promo stuff and also research for second novel but here I am.
Haha Sara, glad I'm not the only one who's easily distracted.
I'm in the office. Fake Canon lens coffee cup to my left, phone and self made calendar to my right (can't afford real calendars in our office). Further to my right is my desk tidy with my appropriated scissors and cellygog, oh, and random elastic bands. beyond that is my mountain man food to keep me going.Ahead of me is my work PC (yukk) I prefer my Mac and iPad, and my Office Nerd award.
Now to chomp down on Walkers prawn cocktail crisps, and write some of Underworld on the iPad.
Sellotape/Cellotape. Cellygog was the name for it when I was a child, and I've never forgotten it. Must be a North East thing, or specific to Hartlepool.
Now in a news factory, about 2-300 hacks and editors all around .. the nearest window is about 30 metres away and all i can see out of it are glass and concrete. Atmosphere INTENSE.
I have a perpetual calendar, which I made myself. It was very cheap: it's a post-it (actuall a tescos rip off) with the word "Today" written on it.I'm writing this on my iPad in Boswells, on my way home from the post office.
Tim wrote: "I have a perpetual calendar, which I made myself. It was very cheap: it's a post-it (actuall a tescos rip off) with the word "Today" written on it.I'm writing this on my iPad in Boswells, on my w..."
HAHAHA!
Ach, the a on my keyboard is sticking .. ugh .. I gave it a few bangs before .. even turned it upside down and shook it .. you DO NOT want to see the stuff that came out .. crumbs and other unrecognisable debris .. hot desking not not good
Pre-8am, I post from the office Mac, three screens but I only use two at that time of the morning! It is my husband's desk so therefore shockingly messy. I usually have to remove a half drunk cold cup of coffee and biscuit crumbs. During the day if I am "working" it's from the other mac, an open Goodreads window lurking behind numerous Graphite 8 windows showing assorted shocking buildings and the odd architectural masterpiece. This all takes place in the "office" which would be a lovely room if it weren't so full of stuff. Two arched windows, coombed ceiling and views over the golf course to the sea and Fife beyond. Well not today because it's foggy, but I'm sure it's there. Or if I'm not required at the forefront of modern design I'll be posting from my tablet, maybe even from outside!
Rosemary wrote: "Pre-8am, I post from the office Mac, three screens but I only use two at that time of the morning! It is my husband's desk so therefore shockingly messy. I usually have to remove a half drunk cold ..."Arf, arf, maybe someone's nicked the golf course!
R.J. wrote: "...Arf, arf, maybe someone's nicked the golf course! "
Probably Donald Trump.
But we need it for the Open qualifying!
Its a Heisenberg golf course is it?
Gingerlily (or Cyberlily..) wrote: "Its a Heisenberg golf course is it?"Not sure...
My calendar this year is the naffest thing ever. It's called lifes little instructions and todays instruction is "Wisely choosing is wisely done."Yesterday was "Never eat breakfast in a place with more than two pinball machines."
Bless my Mother..
I post from in here, which is my son's old room, rechristened The Writing Pad :) and I practically live in this room.I have a desk on which sits this very keyboard and a couple of notebooks and a 0.5mm mechanical pencil. The desk is pulled away from wall and the gap is bridged by a 12" shelf on which sit my two monitors. Between them is a little wooden heart of special significance, and two spent 9mm rounds I picked up from the SAS (ssshhh).
I always have the blackout blind down (it has a row of printed footballs across the bottom), but if it were open you'd see the bungalow opposite, and at the top of the hill is the local cop shop with its huge antenna.
The walls are covered in framed pencil drawings of skulls and freaks I did years ago, of photos of Charlotte's Lodge, Prague, and a group pic of the guys at work with me sitting on the van roof and my boss with his nipple out.
Behind me is a Fender guitar that I play very very badly and a practice amp next to my boy's acoustic with broken strings.
In the corner is a bookshelf, and next to it is a dusty exercise bike.
In a huge feather pillowed armchair beside a closed in fire! The chair is covered in cotton damask and I've a huge fluffy pillow wedged to one side. I like to completely curl up when I sit down so my lap top is balanced on the arm of the chair and on one knee. It's more stable than it sounds I promise!!! The floor is a light wood, and there's lots of light coming in the windows, or at least there would be if only the sun would shine!!!I do a lot of my writing in this spot, or sometimes up to the kitchen table.
I really should find a nice quiet spot to write, but I'd feel guilty that I'd be leaving the other half alone too much.
Harrison wrote: "I really should find a nice quiet spot to write, but I'd feel guilty that I'd be leaving the other half alone too much."I concentrate best when I'm in the thick of a load of noise, which is fortunate or I really do think my mum and sister would disown me!!!
I need a din of some kind, so not total noise but the noise you'd get in a library with a load of people around. it needs to constant though
I'm at my desk, with ahead of me a victoria baraometer (which defaults to rain) and a large picture of the Space Shtlle. beside me, along the whole wall are one set of my bookcases, and beside me is a nice warm radiator which i can hug...
Thats because Wales defaults to rain.
D.D. wrote: "Harrison wrote: "I really should find a nice quiet spot to write, but I'd feel guilty that I'd be leaving the other half alone too much."I concentrate best when I'm in the thick of a load of nois..."
Funny you should say that, I wrote about 40% of Destiny in a loud karaoke bar. Probably why it needed editing so much. Now, however, I can't seem to concentrate in noisy environments.
I keep thinking the barometer has broken, and taking it apart and cleaning the mechanism.Still defaults to rain, though.
Justine M wrote: "Haha Sara, glad I'm not the only one who's easily distracted."Nope. We can keep each other company and get even more distracted!
I am in a cluttered 1st flr study in a late Victorian house with railings outside. There is a broken lamp to the right of my pc and a heap of my son's revision notes for an exam to the left. My dau is hovering around with her hamster trying to distract me ..