Fruit Club
We have a Fruit Club. The first rule of Fruit Club is... never talk about Fruit Club. 16:08:46
Published Date:
09/10/2008
Modified Date:
09/10/2008
They call me... The Night Editor
It's been a couple of weeks since I was regularly posting because they done and went and appointed me The Night Editor. As you can probably tell from the title I am now a superhero in all but... powers. I am still waiting for my costume to arrive. I was playing the 'what superhero power would you have' game the other day and I admitted that not even I would trust myself with invisibility... 15:26:17
Published Date:
07/10/2008
Modified Date:
07/10/2008
I have here a piece of paper in my hand...
At 2.36pm on Monday September 22, 2008, our health and safety supremo relaxed the ban on walking through the loading bay area of the car park. Considering the amount of moaning there has been about not being allowed to walk through there you would have thought there would have been some kind of spontaneous cheer and unified hat throwing. Nothing. The age of the hat is clearly over. 15:08:29
Published Date:
22/09/2008
Modified Date:
22/09/2008
No hair day
Clippers out over the weekend. Hair gone. So that was the hairy summer, all over and done with. Everyone is looking at me as though they are trying to work out what has changed (including my seven month old daughter). The sub-editing Lady of the List is refusing to believe I had hair last week. She copes with change too well. The heat is back too, all over my naked scalp. 12:21:25
Published Date:
02/09/2008
Modified Date:
02/09/2008
Unforgivable thinking
Several members of the subbing team have repair issues with their clothing. Perhaps the most dramatic is the blouse with a mauled look on the shoulder. There is also a skirt that has come apart in a non-specific way and my own trousers where the crotch seam has given way and needed running repairs earlier this week. When you combine these factors with the air conditioning problems one could be forgiven for thinking there may be some kind of cultural shift towards naked sub-editing on the way. Could one be forgiven for thinking that? 17:19:36
Published Date:
29/08/2008
Modified Date:
29/08/2008
If you wanted to make it this hot...
Some of life's most agonising moments are the ones that would never ever happen if you wanted them to but when you don't... like losing your keys down a drain, or dropping your credit card through a crack in the floorboards.
Currently the air con is on the blink and the building, despite overcast pre-autumnal gloom outside, is sweltering. The windows are open. Fans are blowing. Buttons are undone all over the place. One thing is for sure however: if we actually wanted the building to be this warm there would be no way we could make it happen. 18:02:06
Published Date:
27/08/2008
Modified Date:
27/08/2008
Banged knuckles
They say that child birth is the greatest pain known to humankind. Then there is toe stubbing and cracking your funny bone on your elbow. I have a new horror to add, experienced twice today: banging my knuckles on the handle of the toilet door. I will not make a fuss 'though. It is important for a First Aider to be brave about his scrapes to keep staff morale high... 18:13:06
Published Date:
21/08/2008
Modified Date:
21/08/2008
Office copies
Around about now - the internationally recognised hour of coffee time - the need for office copies of the paper becomes almost... urgent. The librarian is being approached by so many people to see if the office bundle has arrived she has started saying 'not yet' before her visitors have even opened their mouths. 11:06:44
Published Date:
21/08/2008
Modified Date:
21/08/2008