Frank.

A lengthy working day today from half seven to half six. Long in hours but not difficult in execution, and I did a favour for BS4 in those hours and that was warming.

Before I set out and about across the country today, I came to the office early and started to clear my desk for my Friday departure. Minimum fuss will be the order of the day at the end of the week. I removed the contents you can see here, my desk 'personals'. The Dictionary I use every day , the thesaurus about once a week. The other books I dip into now and again when I have an idle whim for looking up matters WSC or JFK. The cards are a collection of staff shop purchases that have simply caught me. I took schoolboy delight about a month ago from looking up a word in the W pages of the dictionary; I got to W and the first word I found was 'Wank' - much laughter at that and some other explanation given out at the time.

The green chap is FRANK. Frank spent the last year on my desk in North Somerset. Prior to that he did 14 months on my desk in Oxfordshire and previous to that, 3 years on my desk in Wiltshire. I bought him via that Wilthsire job, and Frank came from the Bentalls Centre in Kingston, though he has more about him than that.

Frank was sixty five million and five last birthday and he is a trifle deaf. He is a reliable, loyal, steady chap and he came home today prior to my Friday finish ready for wherever his next desk might be.

We will press on together!