Monday:

Today saw the start of the great HS&P move around, the purpose being to get everyone off the first floor to create enough space for a communal lounge. A Zen like area where fun and games can be had, great ideas conjured up and conversations of the upmost intellect held over hot mocha’s and biscuits. Great in theory, great in practice…for the humans, but I have one incy wincy problem…The Fracking gardens are going!!!!! Our natural habitats are being destroyed!!

So while the likes of Richard Parkes and Nick Cooper walk around the agency with huge smiles on their faces with sacks of unwanted Astroturf to take home to line their living rooms and bathrooms with, and the rest of accounts resist the temptation of writing rude words in the yet to set and oddly smelling floor leveller I couldn’t help shed a tear for my natural habitat. Talk about working towards a greener planet! It’s an Outrage I tell you. Are we going to pack up our cases and leave HS&P for good? Are we going to start going home with the guys to their Astroturf lined apartments…of course not…we’ll just sulk for awhile and make do with the remaining Ideas Garden, after all, a whole lounge to roam free in is sure to have its advantages.

Tuesday:

This morning I stumbled across a video that must be the most important news to hit the fruit industry since…since for a very long time…Take a look for yourselves and tell me this wont change the way you eat banana’s for ever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBJV56WUDng. Me and my gnomies must have gone through the entire buildings supply of Banana’s on this one! Why isn’t this public knowledge, they should teach this at school.

The second point to note from today’s antics and only because of the fun that could be potentially had, is again down to what my little golden pointy ears picked up whilst hoping through reception. ‘I want to poke someone’ proclaimed Rachael, our lovely if sometimes quirky receptionist. I believe in this instance she was referring to poking random men using the Facebook application.

Now obviously, with her prior consent, I think we’re going to have to arrange some form of online auction for Rachael, Ebay perhaps? Photos to follow shortly.

Wednesday:

After a wet and muggy start this morning I have convinced myself I have swine flu after reading a self diagnosis in the morning paper. Headaches?…Yup. Sore limbs?…Yeah!…Loss of appetite?…Well I didn’t really fancy any breakfast this morning…Argh I’ve got pig flu!!

Has their even been any reported cases of Human to Gnome transference? What shall I do?? Should I inform the others? Go into isolation?……… Neah.

Apart from my own personal problems today also saw the final preparations for the big move. With the arrival of the packing crates it was time for everyone to start packing their desks and other accumulated clutter, this was also a great opportunity for a belated spring clean out. Allsorts of weird and wonderful things began appearing in the trash piles, in hindsight this was a real missed opportunity for an HS&P garage sale!

After several near misses with being ‘accidentally’ thrown into the trash piles I opted for some fresh air and quite frankly it was safer! It was whilst getting said fresh air that I was confronted by the huge smug face of Richard Hammond slapped onto the side of a Double Decker, no he hadn’t been hit by a bus, unfortunately, it was an advertisement for his new book, ‘As You Do’,… frankly who has the time? Personally I feel the same way about Richard Hammond as a lot of you feel about John Barrowman (no not that) he is simply everywhere you look. He’s also arrogant and frustratingly condescending, even the ‘As You Do’ title is irritating, as YOU do Richard, not us. I hardly have the time to read the books I want to read let alone a biography about a 40 something T.V presenter who’s basically listing why his life is so much better than ours, debatable. I can understand fitting in the time to read the biographies from the likes of Alfred Hitchcock or Neil Armstrong, but this? Pfffft. I won’t go out for fresh air from now on.

Thursday/Friday:

It was time people got moving, to ensure I got a birds eye view of all the agency reshuffle antics, in particular the integration of the Crayon and HS&P creative’s, I clambered up on top of a 4^th floor cupboard with my popcorn and laptop. (They should call me Golden Attenborough)

Before the move got underway I had time for a quick morning surfing session, this gave me the opportunity to read up on the collaboration between CBS Outdoor and Cluster to produce digital LCD screens that can be controlled via an I-Phone app. The example used to showcase the new idea is a converse trainer on an Adshel, passers by can zoom in and out and move around the product using their mobile phone.  I wonder what other great uses this will have other than zooming in on photos of Michael Jacksons head or the latest high street honey??? Ideas please.

I Digest, with the arrival of the removal guys the move was underway…and what could possibly go wrong…could we lose someone between floors?

Apart from a claustrophobic removal man getting stuck in the lift three times…’breathe mate, breathe’ and Chris Michael (Technical Director) going slightly mad after being left on his own found wearing an ‘Adult’ bunny kit outfit, the two days went with floorless military precision.

My only amusement came from observing peoples faces as they roamed the corridors like refuges carrying all their possessions, not entirely sure where they belonged trying to catch the eyes of passers by for help, with little success. Let the good times role.

 

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