File box

Stocking the Office and Minutes etc.

A trip to Nottingham for several reasons. Y needed to book a rail-ticket, return books to Bromley House and other bits and pieces.

I wanted to have a look at current styles of filing stuff, to accommodate our National Trust documents. Now we have these new responsibilities our present system of 'bung it in a folder and hope to find it whenever' was not going to be good enough. So I bought an accordion type folder, a box file, and a translucent A4 box with elasticated bands round it. And this afternoon I spent a couple of hours 'filing'.

Then we tackled Y's minutes and I was impressed with the thoroughness of her notes. She has lost none of her skills I've e-mailed our chairman a draft copy. It was my intention to produce a draft hard copy but my printer is still playing silly boggers and, from the Word 2003 document, clicking print only elicits an offer to 'save' it again, in My Documents. I eventually got it to print by making the document a 'google document' but it can't seem to manage the columns for the treasurer's report.

I shall get there never fear. But...

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