Distraction...
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Tweetypie
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Ooops. I don't think I would get anything done if I was sent to work from home either. It's bad enough seeing the glorious weather through the window. ;-)
Hen-Gen
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Ah. Distraction. Right outside my windows I have a small park which my sheep are currently in to eat down the last of this years grass. I can sit in my rocker, mug of coffee in hand watching them graze and listening to the steady rhythm of their feeding as they move forward.
Is it a distraction. If so, from what?
Is it a distraction. If so, from what?
rick
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My distraction in the home office is Shiina Ringo and crew on Youtube. Well, actually music it's pretty energising when there's a long email to put together - but not to watch! When its not raining, having the loft window open is nice. There is a big cedar opposite and all the birds, except the gulls, visit it in the day The real office is a hermetically sealed air con box and not nice at all but I do miss the travelling to get there - somehow wandering upstairs with a cup of tea doesn't feel like arriving at work. .... love the photo montage, by the way. Haven't seen any ladybirds around here for a long time. Not even on walks.
rick said:
I didn’t know ladybirds went on walks....
rick said:
Thank you
I prefer working from home personally... If I was told that I was not to commute / drive anymore I really wouldn't mind and probably have a party and celebrate! It's great to be reunited with my work colleagues in person of course but once a week is good enough. Teams does a pretty good job the rest of the time...
Margaid
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rick said:
That's why a lot of people working permanently from home have a garden office. Would it help to create the distance between home and office if you went for a walk and then went straight up to work when you got home?
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can I work from home please, I can take the bus round the lake
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Margaid said:
Here, apparently, studies have shown that those now working from home are spending almost three hours extra per day sitting down. The Heart Foundation are advising those working from home to do exactly that, go for a walk before and after starting work, and take short breaks during the day to get up and move around.
Yes, during last term in lockdown when schools were closed, our teacher daughter said she spent so much time on her computer preparing video lessons and teaching classes remotely, that her old back trouble started up again. She says she’s on her feet nearly all the time in normal lessons, and is a very active person, does a lot of running, and D of E courses for the school, so not a couch potato.
Marigold said:
Yes, too many people assume that if teachers aren't in school or college they're not doing any work! That's very far from the truth and they probably do more hours at home than they do in a classroom.
To be fair that is true for most people working from home... Both companies are getting a greater work output from both myself and my husband whilst working from home... More hours as well... It's just too easy to just go and check emails on a Sunday so that Monday morning is not so manic...
However, this is not a complaint! I don't get visits from computer literate ladybirds in the office... So remote work does have its perks... ?
However, this is not a complaint! I don't get visits from computer literate ladybirds in the office... So remote work does have its perks... ?
rick
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LadyA said:
Yes, funny thing is I've been doing more walking lately - well maybe - its better quality walking anyway but the bits that you do without thinking about it, day in and day out, just getting to the train station add up a lot. Anyway, finally a booking system for a desk in the council offices is up and running and am going in this week, taking in a few sites that I could really do with seeing for real but have been just too inefficient to visit without going from A to B. It will probably be raining cats and dogs on that day and will regret it but I just cant work this way! Its like I imagine it must be like to fly a drone or something like that!
Sounds as though BYM might have a big distraction soon. A huge bearded vulture that spent the summer in the Peak District is now heading south. It's got as far as Sandy in Bedfordshire. If it's planning to cross the Channel, it might be in Essex or Kent in the next few days...
Hen-Gen
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Bearded Vulture? Never met one of those but I have met two or three Soul Vampires in my time.
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Already seen her, when we went away to Yorkshire, saw her perched on a rock, quite close to us, the primary wing feather was the length of a human arm, and when she took off and flew over us, absolutely magnificent. She flew over Essex on her way North, went over Witham.
Hopefully she will go home soon, was seen eating rats in Lincolnshire, not ideal for a bone eater especially if they are full of rodenticide.
Hopefully she will go home soon, was seen eating rats in Lincolnshire, not ideal for a bone eater especially if they are full of rodenticide.
