I just nearly amputated my fingers with my new desk!!!!!!

Ok, I'm not laughing really, please please please give me the key for the hose, it's so cold! Are those poor poorlie pinkies better now? Complete respect to you in that figurehugging super costume!

hmmmmm, as with Bilbo Baggin's relatives on the night of THAT party, I am trying to work out whether I have been insulted or not lolololol Hmmmm, key, key, now where did I put the thing . . .

I have more chance of fixing the block of wood myself than getting any assistance round here this weekend! As to the super bit, shhhh! Trade secrets, etc! lolololol

No, Blondie, as you know I am so clumsy I would spend half my life picking up the contents of the pen holder, and also Other Half steals my pens and scatters them throughout the flat, so I need to keep them hidden. When you visit you will see that I can not move anything. It is a metal, purpose built computer table!

Have you never heard the phrase "beggars can't be choosers?" The wretched table is in here and it was such a performance getting it in here there is no chance of moving it! However, actually if you remember how the other keyboard used to rock and reel while you were trying to type I think you will very much enjoy using this desk, just be careful when I ask you to pass a pencil lololol.

But that is no use if you can't get in there yourself is it now

There is no alternative but I have shut my fingers in the drawer enough times to make sure my brain stops me doing it now lol.

ouch well Ihope so cant keep that up or ya cant type!

I am getting more comfortable here now Marlyse. They have literally slung everything that they do not want in the lounge into the bedroom but have notput any shelves up and have just abandoned me. However, I can type about three times as fast now a I have a proper shelf with the keyboard on and I am getting more comfortable - not to mention careful with that wretched drawer - every day lol. Yes, it is very difficult to keep pens and I shall try your idea, as I put all the pens into one place and they end up all over the flat. Even the birdies join in, swooping and snatching a pen. I don't get the pen back until it is chewed way, way beyond ever being useful again lol.

Thank you for that, I shall get Other Half to see if he can alter things. The desk is metal and the actual shelf the keyboard is on is so much more solid than the previous desk. When I got up to speed typing the keyboard bounced worse than Jell-o! As to pens from bank THANK YOU! Believe it or not hadn't thought of that, but it is now etched onto my brain.

Nope, there is nowhere else, unless I set up office in a tent in the garden, and no, I am not going to do that, someone else will have to camp out if they want another inch of my room lol. It was a real shock when my fingers got caught, but I am being much more wary now. I will just have to hurry up and write my novel, become rich and move to a home with lots of rooms - and locks on the doors to keep out the marauding pen snatchers lolol.

Nope, no can do, they steal from anywhere I have them, and a little basket is like a beacon light to the birdies. Ooooh basketware, oooh crunchy yummy. I shall just have to get used to the stupid layout of the drawers, as the unit itself is actually quite nice. I did not realise before how much the keyboard shelf shook, and this one is rock solid, making typing so much nicer.

Well, this desk is more than evil, it has been sworn at more than any other desk I have ever had! It is very good in that it doesn't wobble like my previous desk and the whole thing is better as it has a sliding tray for the keyboard, which actually slides and works, on my previous desk if I pulled the tray the whole thing came out and the keyboard ended up crashing to the floor. I was delighted to find somewhere to put my pens etc but I am less than thrilled at the ease with which I can trap my fingers, sigh.