Don’t Set up Your Home Office in Reach of the Wine Rack

I was fortunate to have had some work to do, actual work, over Friday and Saturday. Sure, there’s bits and pieces I can do from home but it’s not productive work, so it’s a small blessing to head off t’shop with a job a’waiting, even though sales for April will be about 2-3% of what they normally would be. At least it’s something.

Whereas Mrs Kiwi has been working from home, commandeering my interweb headquarters for her employer’s purposes and claiming her steam-powered collection of computer equipmentry was unsuitable for the programs she was required to install. That’s fair enough, we all have to adapt and suffer.

Taking not nearly as much interest in the interweb of life as me, I should have realised that sooner or later an upgrade for her gear was looming and done something about it sooner. Alas, we all make mistakes.

Thinking back over Covid’s course, working from home and mistake-making, reminded me of a story from the outset of lockdown, from Stuff’s Collette Devlin, which started out straightforward enough:

But it soon became clear that she had made the mistake of setting up her home office within reach of the wine-rack:

Next minute, the room must have started spinning, Collette went around and around and around:

And culminated, shockingly, in a public pea…

So, let us be grateful that our own little mistakes aren’t quite so publicly noted as poor Collette’s. Dear Lady, take my advice: the wine cellar is not a suitably productive working environment.

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