Comments on: 165. From the desk of … Roads of Stone http://roadsofstone.com/2007/10/08/165-from-the-desk-of-roads-of-stone/ rocks, running and the world Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:20:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Roads http://roadsofstone.com/2007/10/08/165-from-the-desk-of-roads-of-stone/#comment-10060 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:06:41 +0000 http://roadsofstone.com/2007/10/08/165-from-the-desk-of-roads-of-stone/#comment-10060 Thanks, Sheila. The Guardian have kept up their regular feature (it’s in the Review section, each Saturday) and it’s really fascinating to see the different kinds of rooms and writing materials used, as well as the frequent disarray all around the creative hub itself.

]]> By: Sheila http://roadsofstone.com/2007/10/08/165-from-the-desk-of-roads-of-stone/#comment-10059 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:00:14 +0000 http://roadsofstone.com/2007/10/08/165-from-the-desk-of-roads-of-stone/#comment-10059 “I much prefer a wider outlook, with just a distant view of detail. And maybe that’s exactly how I am.” Well, that is clearly untrue about detail! From what I can read, your attention to detail is exceptional!

My desk is lonely as I have taken to the sofa with the laptop, mixing work with non-work, hence bad posture and biscuit crumbs around…

]]> By: Roads http://roadsofstone.com/2007/10/08/165-from-the-desk-of-roads-of-stone/#comment-9120 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:33:08 +0000 http://roadsofstone.com/2007/10/08/165-from-the-desk-of-roads-of-stone/#comment-9120 It’s OK, Steve. I’ve tidied it up now. Really I have.

]]> By: Steve Adams http://roadsofstone.com/2007/10/08/165-from-the-desk-of-roads-of-stone/#comment-9117 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:21:30 +0000 http://roadsofstone.com/2007/10/08/165-from-the-desk-of-roads-of-stone/#comment-9117 Thought you might be interested in (and a good contestant for) this contest. http://www.messyofficecontest.com

Love the picture!

]]> By: Night and Day on The Desktop | Wombat Diet http://roadsofstone.com/2007/10/08/165-from-the-desk-of-roads-of-stone/#comment-7905 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:31:33 +0000 http://roadsofstone.com/2007/10/08/165-from-the-desk-of-roads-of-stone/#comment-7905 [...] the running geologist, author, and author of the roadsofstone blog recently published a picture of his desk, picking up a nice idea that had been in The Guardian The Guardian. Every desk tells a [...]

]]> By: Roads http://roadsofstone.com/2007/10/08/165-from-the-desk-of-roads-of-stone/#comment-7857 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:12:19 +0000 http://roadsofstone.com/2007/10/08/165-from-the-desk-of-roads-of-stone/#comment-7857 Great description, Sweder. Yes, I remember that desk of yours.

You pack a lot of life into a small space, and in more ways than one.
Many thanks …

]]> By: Sweder http://roadsofstone.com/2007/10/08/165-from-the-desk-of-roads-of-stone/#comment-7848 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:00:20 +0000 http://roadsofstone.com/2007/10/08/165-from-the-desk-of-roads-of-stone/#comment-7848 Hi Roads. This is a great idea!

I have, as you might expect, a pretty cluttered desk in front of me. It’s one of those purpose-built corner jobbies. The right-hand upright houses a (fairly ancient) Dell tower computer, the left three heavily-stuffed drawers. On top and to the right, two pairs of metal/weave filing trays overflowing with bills, running entries (old and new), a book or two and sections of my son’s A-Level course work (Business Studies I suspect – it’s easier to spot when Photography has been the task du jour). To the left a beautifully crafted wrought iron letter holder, made for me by my (incredibly talented) Blacksmith brother, Jim. The base is the surface of a pond; letters (and er, more running entries)are held between the reeds and the up-turned feet of a dabbling duck. Two half-filled plastic CD-Rom containers, a mini three-drawer storage box (containing foreign currency that I’ll always forget to look out when I travel, rubber bands (I never use them) and odd bits and bobs, the origin or use of which I have no clue about).

Dead ahead a slighter newer (than the PC) Dell flat screen monitor, flanked by a pair of speakers. A couple of dust-covered staplers and a redundant hole punch, a plastic tube containing two liveried golf balls and a selection of tees painted to look like miniature pints of Guinness. Oh, and a Leatherman (genuine) in a leather belt case. I keep it on my desk so as not to leave it in my computer bag and thereby lose it at airport security.

The window ledge behind my desk/ to the left holds (left to right) an old bottle of Fentimans traditional Ginger Beer; A pewter tankard (received for Longest Drive on a day when no-one else hit the fairway!); a mini-set of clubs on a mini-trolley; a model of a skeleton sat at a computer terminal (the screen says ‘Surfed Too Long’ – oops!); a ‘nineteenth hole’ coffee mug in the shape of a golf ball; a replica model of the Spider Man chopper (as seen on American Chopper); an Arkansas Razorbacks ceramic beer tankard (purchased during a visit to Fayetteville – yeehah!); a replica Willy’s 1947 US Army Jeep (I used to drive one, many moons ago); a statuette of Quasimodo with the inscription ‘Ash – Paris Marathon 2006 – 3:52:08′ – a gift from Moyleman and the 2006 Paris team; a replica model of The Joker (from Batman); a large pebble from Ringstead Bay, Dorset.

The wall behind the screen/ to my right is a baroque collection of photos, children’s drawings and memorabelia. A framed photo of Kelly Holmes winning gold in Sydney (800 metres – Matola lunging for the line, the pain of defeat writ horribly on her straining face – Kelly wide-eyed, disbelieving, triumphant) takes centre stage. A large picture of my son’s football team (circa 1994) receiving Player of the Year awards from the great Jimmy Hill; my daughters’ dance school in full show regalia; a signed photograph (b&w) of Eric Cantona doing his Community Service after the infamous kung-fu incident at Sellhurst Park; a 1999 Champions League Final programme (delivered by a very lucky friend who was there, the swine!); my first ‘thank you’ certificate from JDRF after the London Marathon of 2003; an overhead shot of my jumpmaster taking part in a twenty-way formation at the World Skydiving Championships in (or rather, above) Muskogee Oklahoma; photos from my Captains’ Day (Mayfield Golfing Society) at Chartham Park (2002); a photo of myself and the mighty Seafront Plodder just after the Brighton Half (my first race) in 2003; my favorite photo of Ringstead Bay (Dorset) at dusk . . . and several pictures of my lovely family.

Crikey, what a lucky bloke I am!

The room’s only ten by ten (feet) but I’d best not describe the bookcase or the storage shelves; we’ll be here all night!

(Hm . . s’pose I could’ve just taken a couple of pictures . . .)

]]> By: louise http://roadsofstone.com/2007/10/08/165-from-the-desk-of-roads-of-stone/#comment-7821 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:47:45 +0000 http://roadsofstone.com/2007/10/08/165-from-the-desk-of-roads-of-stone/#comment-7821 You’re right, Roads! I think the Tidy Police will be around soon and I will be ejected from the country as having a bad influence on the natives! Too many years of living in the disorganised south-west of France and being untidy by nature cannot be cured by the Swiss in two years! Another reason to leave!

]]> By: Roads http://roadsofstone.com/2007/10/08/165-from-the-desk-of-roads-of-stone/#comment-7819 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:12:40 +0000 http://roadsofstone.com/2007/10/08/165-from-the-desk-of-roads-of-stone/#comment-7819 Switzerland certainly expects a much tidier desk than that, Louise.

Surely you’ll have to work on it, or risk being cast as a black sheep … ;-)

]]> By: louise http://roadsofstone.com/2007/10/08/165-from-the-desk-of-roads-of-stone/#comment-7803 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:53:56 +0000 http://roadsofstone.com/2007/10/08/165-from-the-desk-of-roads-of-stone/#comment-7803 Just having a look at my desk, which is in fact the dining room table. Here is what I see rapidly:
Son doing homework
Laptop
Printer
Steam iron
Half eaten bag of crisps
Coffee mug
Cotton wool and loo paper (for cleaning laptop)
Mountain of unopened bills
Address book
Large bunch of flowers

I read something somewhere years ago that one should always be suspicious of people with tidy desks – I am obviously the most honest and open person in the world!

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