Goodbye Thomas More Square...

...as of next year we (my office and I) are moving to "The Place"...or as it is better known - "The Mini Shard" from Thomas More Square (pictured)...so a few things to look forward to -

A zero minute commute from London Bridge station to the office (rumours of a secret, private entrance direct from the station into work's private underground shopping complex, even though that would hardly be necessary considering how close it is anyway, would just be a very welcome cherry on the top!)...so, thank you free shuttle bus, but I won't be needing you quite so much from now on (amazingly cool as you have, and will continue to be in the meantime!)...A large private roof plaza (in fact, you can already see all the huge plants up there if you peer up from ground level), amazing views from most sections of the office over central London (including the Thames, Tower, Tower Bridge, London Eye, St Pauls etc. etc.), air conditioned comfort...excellent proximity to Borough Market and Bankside...and a blank canvas inside as we are the first tenants...so everything will be laid out exactly as is required!

Things just keep on getting better!  Roll on next year! :)

Very Important Milk update...

Well, it looks like the 22nd floor isn't full of milk robbers! Although it could be something to do with the fact that the fridge up here (yes, just one fridge, rather than two in our last little kitchen) instead of being filled with a higgledy-piggledy avalanche of half empty milk bottles and hundreds of ready meals/floppy sandwiches, just contains about five half-drunk bottles of wine, several interesting looking pork pies and a packet of Tesco finest nectarines...So I know what the existing residents of this floor drink (the important bit being -not my milk-), I wonder what they eat? ;)

Anyway, for now at least, it seems my hot beverages are safe from plunder... ;)

Office Golf...?

...yep, believe it or not someone just calmly "played through" past my desk with their putter...this is a *very* different floor... :0

Hello 22nd Floor!

Well here we are! Some higher resolution pictures as promised (of *course* it had to be the foggiest day of the year today, didn't it), anyway, this is a quick peek across the Editorial floor towards the "Big Screen" (more on that, perhaps, another day)...

...and a glimpse straight down at the roof of the Canary Wharf DLR station...

...and finally a "portrait" look at Cabot Square (and the whole of London behind)...

...and a "landscape" look...I'll try again on a lovely sunny day, but it gives you an idea anyway...only two bad things so far, the new desks are about a third smaller than our old ones (even the pedestals are about half the size), but thanks to my huge spring clean on Friday I've just about squeezed everything in...second bad thing is that we now have two more stops in the way trying to get in and out of the building (before the express zone), but I guess the way the lifts work around here is really a post in it's own right for another day... ;)

Bye bye 20th Floor...

That's it, all packed up, threw away about 40000000 bits of paper (things like holiday booking sheets dating back to 2008), and now only my PC (pretty much) is left sat on my desk -

- next stop, floor 22 (well, after the weekend anyway)! Things I won't miss? The stupid sun blinding me reflecting off the Bank of America in the morning, my super wobbly chair and the noisy binding machine that sits right behind my head...

Who wants to bet I hit the wrong button in the lift on Monday...? ;)

Going up in the World...

Well, it's come around a bit quicker than I thought, over this weekend my little team is moving up to the Editorial floor (two floors even higher up than I already am)! Just popped up to have a little peep at our new domain (and take a shot out the window), my new view is West, back towards London Bridge, in the distance you can just about pick out the "Shard" and that thing that looks a bit like the Rebel base on Hoth is the roof of the DLR station...although the stickers the IT guys have put on my VDUs ready for the move do make me look like a bit of a retard... ;)

Still, looking forward to the change... :) I'll try and bring in my proper camera next week and get a better pic...

My New View...

- had a desk move over the weekend, and now, instead of Canada Square (and the O2), although I can still see that if I look to my left (albeit through a glass meeting room), my new main view is now over East London, looking towards where the new Olympic site is slowly creeping into existence...and look, the sun has even come out to let me take a nice picture... ;)