Almost like normal (166/365)

[white_hart]

I'm quite enjoying my days in the office. Today, being there enabled me to support my newest and most junior member of staff, who was in by herself as both of the other members of her team were ill; pop my head round my head of department's door to discuss something we both forgot at our last scheduled Teams catchup; have a lunchtime walk and chat with a colleague in the same role in a different department; and look something up in one of my paper files when someone asked about it. None of these things would have been half as easy from home, and some would have been impossible. And I wouldn't have been able to have the iced latte I treated myself too when I got back from the walk (though I would have saved myself £3.20).

I'm half-tempted to increase my time on-site even though the government have extended restrictions, including the advice to work from home where possible, for another four weeks. There's a lot to be said for having work and home in separate places...