Life in Leeds

I'm in the Leeds office today, so I've had the usual faff trying to find a hotdesk to use. The designated ones seem to have been claimed by various project managers who fill them up with their files, notes, phone chargers and gonks, and the one I picked was reclaimed when the owner sauntered in at 11 o'clock. She made a half hearted offer to move her stuff, but I ended up moving to the wilderness of the soul that is the sales and marketing department, scrabbling under the desk trying to find a network point.

I wandered into Leeds at lunchtime to have a nonch (that's 'mooch' in nokia predictive text) around the Corn Exchange, which with it's magnificent vaulted cast iron domed ceiling is easily one of my favourite buildings. Inside there are three levels of little hippy shops, with craft stalls on the middle level, and the Travelling Man games and comics shop on the top. I thought about getting some of the Sandman graphic novels but maybe I'll hold out till my birthday, so I just bought a Heroclix booster pack instead. Why do I buy figures for a game I rarely play? I don't know, but they are just so dinky and maybe I will get a full set of x-men circa the 1980s Claremont era if I keep buying them long enough.

On to Habitat to buy some side plates for my Mum and Dad to replace some that got chipped at Hunt House in the dish washer. I had a flashback to Saturday afternoons as a child when family entertainment meant a trip to Habitat or John Lewis' in Watford or Welwyn. The plates were just inside the door, but as the main till wasn't working I had to go upstairs to pay for them. Coming back down I got disorientated and nearly walked through a plate glass window on the way out.

Finally, a pack of sushi and a strawberry smoothie for lunch and back to the office to eat it. Before I could sit down I got collared for help on the sales spreadsheet by some of the sales droids before I had even seen the email from Eileen the contracts manager at Dudley asking me to sort them out. At least I was able to email back with a smug 'Done!' and get a reply of 'walks on water man!' which seems to be my official job title now.

Doesn't seem to come with any more money though ...

Open the Heroclix .... Rookie Daredevil and Kingpin ... Rats! Anyone got any swapsies?