An excursion!

I've just returned from an excursion! It's not very often in your adult working lives that you get to go on excursions, so we made the most of it. This morning the rest of my team and I clamoured into a maxi taxi for a big adventure out to Ligare printers. When we got there we had to get visitor passes and don fluoro orange vests and then we spent an hour and a half having a tour of their buildings, staring at vast machines that convey paper all over the place and print it and fold it and glue it (I especially liked the glue!) and stitch it and slice the edges off and add the cover and crimp the binding etc. There is whole lot of work that goes into printing a book (and in the room where they were making glossy hardcovers we were all gasping for air from the smell we couldn't believe anybody ever got used to), then there was all the packaging and mailing and so on. It was really quite interesting

It was more than three hours from leaving to returning though so by the time we got back I was desperate for a drink (let alone that morning coffee!) and the bathroom and thankful that I actually do have a job sitting in front of a computer where I can largely do my own thing.