ANOTHER HARD DAY AT THE OFFICE. IT'S ALL RIGHT FOR SUM !!
Posted: Wednesday, 09 July 2008 |
I really must catch up with my book-keeping, A hard day at the office is on the cards.
Excel spread sheet, add, sum, formulae, Totals.
My office is a very happy and healthy office, it's called THE BEACH.
ISLE OF COLL BEACHES
Yes, leaving the laptop and Excel spread sheet behind I pack some A4 paper, a ruler and a few pencils.
My blonde head is left on the shelf today. I am going to do all the SUMS in my sensible, intelligent head. Mental arithmetic. (Read somewhere that this keeps you from going senile, so there's hope for me yet)
So what is the magic formula for a happy office????.....
Well, to sum it all up:-
Take one room with a view...
an infinity pool helps staff morale.
ADD
A vase of fresh flowers
a delicate, natural fragrance
Eat healthily in the open air dining room
Make sure the kids are happy in the Creche
The weather is just so perfect, but my paperwork is piling up. I have to get stuck in.
However, I cannot face a day indoors
not with the sun shining and the sea sparkling,
so I pack my rucksack with basic requirements such as pen, paper and ruler
Boiled egg and tomato sandwiches
Fruit and plenty to drink (soft drinks that is)
Not forgetting company policy on casual dress,
Musn't overdress you understand.
I head to my office.
and find a nice flat slab of rock where I work diligently,
drawing columns with my ruler and entering data with my pencil.
Suddenly I remember how to add up in my head.
Phew, I'm working exceptionally hard.
I mop my brow...
But, the machair is so soft and inviting, I lay down, just for a few minutes to relax,
All around me the sweet fragrance of the meadow
I close my eyes, and drift, drift, drift away....
Suddenly a fly lands on my nose.
I wake with a startle. The sun has moved, the tide has returned.
It's 7 o'clock at night.
time to head home....
Another hard day at the office (tee hee)
Comments
I am so easily detracted these days, any excuse to leave the paperwork for another day. If only it would rain, if only Coll wasn't so beautiful and the beaches so inviting. I must focus my mind, but it's hard, so very hard.
Squidgy the Otter from Poet's Corner
Once my Owl and the Pussycat poem is published, I may have to leave the country tootsuite, ie quickly. Why?? you will find out shortly. Right I'm orf to Tiree shopping, but the windy is weather, sorry I'm in a hurry, the boat is leaving soon, that should be ... the weather is windy... bye for now.
Squidgy the Otter from Gone into hiding
It's tough at the top, Squidgy. I hope you didn't have any CDs containing classified information when you fell asleep...it would make a change from them being "left on a train", though.
Jill from EK
Squidgy rocks!!! That swimsuit's a funny shape fpr an otter...
Flying Cat from gazing wistfullythrough the bars
Odd Shape? Otters do have legs I dont have one to stand on., just a matter of a-pinion as the Pirot with the wooden leg once told me down in the doldrums.
THE FLYING FISH from SKIMMING OVER THE WAVES
flying cat, that swimsuit is exactly right for an otter, its an animal print
visiting male otter from squidgys beach
Flying Cat are you still in the Clink??Barney is moaning about having missed you. We also get a mention on his website! but its in Swedish ! He's a one that Barney.
Squidgy the Otter from Back from Tiree again...
There should be more offices like this. IBHQ may have to relocate!
Carol from IBHQ
Oh how I agree Squidgy - its so hard to do those mundane things like paperwork when you have some sunshine and wonderful sights to behold! It tends to be cheese and pickle (mustard type) sarnies for me and my binoculars - just watching and enjoying - and its free!
Wild Freckle from Sinking under the paperwork!
Hello Wild Freckle, I loved your HRH blog with Princess Anne and have tried to comment, but it appears to have got lost, so will try again. Jill, the paperwork I had about my person, was highly classified, top secret and for my eyes only. Not many people know this, but I am an undercover agent, hence the disguise as an otter.
Squidgy the Otter from Beachcombers-r-me
"There should be more offices like this. IBHQ may have to relocate! Carol from IBHQ" May I make a humble suggestion? Jura!! (any rhyming with "hurrah" is purely coincidental). Now, I am quite sure Jura would be a wonderful place to VISIT...
mjc from NM,USA
Squidgy, did your boy finally go to Spain?
mjc from NM,USA
mjc, oh what a week !! After a false start with the motor home, the trip is back on and starting now in the next few days. Then.... after months of threatening to arrive on Coll, who should come a knocking, but our blogging friend from Sveden, Barney. What a trip they have had too, sailing from Sveden to Coll, I think they are in Barra now or perhaps Skye, St Kilda proved to be a bit too ambitious. even for Capt'n Barney !!.
Squidgy the Otter from Isle of Coll
The Owl and The Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful peagreen boat...but Squidgy never did a blog about it and all her many fans were left hanging on...
Flying Cat from Blondie
Ah ah, Flying Cat, I have finally plucked up the courage to do the blog. It should be appearing soon (Hope Barney is in some far off place, St. Kilda for example where laptops canot be used)
Squidgy the Otter from A not so true Blonde
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