Aspirational Library Furniture

It kinda started as a joke...

We were getting new book trolleys, and the leaflet from the company that my colleague and I had been given after going to a book-trolley demonstration (you can imagine how exciting that was, I suspect...) included one which was a beautiful shade of lilac.

My first trolley was blue. The picture shows it and my eventual trolley arriving off the lorry which brought them over to our new offices from the New Bodleian when we moved in November of 2010. I was happy with the blue one, it was well-behaved and stable for what I needed it for, which was mostly processing of Chinese materials in those days.

Then another colleague needed one, so someone decided to give him my blue one and get me another. I jokingly mentioned the pretty lilac one on the leaflet, and the sweet girl who was my line-manager's temporary assistant at the time ordered it for me. So now I have a lilac trolley, and am absolutely guaranteed to get comments about it, especially when I am wearing one of my (numerous) purple outfits.

When it came to starting a new blog, as part of my 2012 resolution to be more organised online and do something with my online presence, I had to think of something that defined me, and aside from the serious stuff, like my job title, the trolley sprang to mind. So, good people of the Interwebs, envy me, for this truly is my book trolley, in all its amazing lilac glory!