What a delightful day we had yesterday. One of those rare days when you can escape the home office and have loads of serious fun.
We were filming a few video clips for The Remote Worker Awards with Procom (www.procom.uk.com). An early start at 5am saw us heading up to London to shoot an OfficePOD in Kings Cross for The OfficePOD Award.
The POD is ideal for working from home, a home office extension or a break out room in an office location. We found it be roomier and more spacious than we thought with the full glass windows sending in shafts of natural light.
Heading South, we arrived at Wisborough Green in West Sussex to meet Becci Coombes from Girls Travel Club, whose family has a lovely leafy property surrounded by fields and woodlands.
Here we filmed Becci working from her multiple home offices – a caravan embedded amongst the trees, a log cabin surrounded by trees thriving with bird life and the quaintest, yet leaky World War Anderson Shelter almost taken over by creepers, tendrils of ivy and families of moss and eggs incubating beside her kiln oven.
Becci runs a glass making business in the bunker, she is writing a travel book in the caravan and she runs her Girls Travel Club (www.girlstravelclub.co.uk) in the log cabin. Talented lady! 
It was so peaceful being surrounded by so much greenery and so many different places to work, I was inspired to write a blog about ‘what’s the view from your office window’ so watch out for that coming soon. We are also hoping to get some media coverage about this topic to see how other people are inspired by the view from their window.
Becci has entered the BT Home Business Award and is proud that not one, but four home businesses are run from her families home!
Next we stopped at Hove and met up with Karen Moran who also runs a family business from home.
We were welco
med by her energetic 2 year old pup who scampered up the garden to show us Karen’s ‘shed’ - I envy her garden ‘shed’ so much I have to have one! Karen’s husband started building it as a shed, but it soon became more than that with glass sheets to show off the view.
The shed quickly became the families bolt-hole, where they all escape for private solitude, productive, quality work time, me time, to muse or simply just chill and daydream.
Built from wood and sheets of glass, it overlooks a large mature garden surrounded by lovely plants and trees and conjures images of holiday in the sun. As a
If you stand on your tip toes you can see the sea. I’m not sure how 
much work I would get done in there as I would just stare dreamily out at the view of Hove all day long!
Karen has entered both The BT Home Business Award and The OfficePOD Award. Her employees will also be entering The Microsoft Remote Worker Award and The Lexmark Home Worker Award as everyone in her business work remotely or work from home.
Communications expert Karen and Oxbow Media (www.oxboxmedia.co.uk) ensure every aspect of design and marketing gives your company an identity.
Karen invited the crew to her beach hut and introduced us to another ‘room with a view’ as Ken experienced the ultimate in remote working as he tip tapped away on his laptop beside the sea. He too wouldn’t get much done with that stunning view!
Lastly, at the end of a long ol’ day, we were entertained by Rosie’s drama kids of The Sussex Helen O’ Grady Drama Academy.
This little group ha
d all of us smiling and chuckling, despite being dead on our feet from a non-stop round trip of filming.
With only two weeks of practise for their play - about two naughty foxes who steal a farmer’s chickens – the class was surprisingly already well versed and knew their lines.
We hope their play will show potential entrants to The Helen O' Grady Special Award what a rewarding job teaching children drama can be.
And all they have to do is enter the award to win their own home based franchise worth £15k!
What fun! I could do this every day … okay, maybe not every day, but more than the odd occasion would do.
Special thanks to the guys at OfficePOD, Becci, Karen and Rosie for welcoming our motley film crew and being such perfect hosts!
But the star of the show was Alec Hall-Shaw from Procom who did a brilliant job filming all the reels of ideas, fue
lled only on a quick bite of a Bacon and Brie sandwich and a slurp of Apple Juice.
Amazing!
Alec’s patience and calm demeanour is just what you need when you are trying to shoot several clips across a 300 mile round trip.
Despite bumpy roads, beating country tracks, going aerial over a hump back bridge and several devours we still made the final destination just in the nick of time thanks to Ken’s rally driving skills.
If none of that ruffled Alec’s feathers, I wonder what would?
We couldn’t recommend Alec highly enough for all types of vi
deo work, from a quick ‘e-mercial’, wide angle photography, to a big corporate event or business conference, Alec and his faithful video camera will be perfect companions for any film shoot.
Please give Alec a call if you need any video shoots.
Watch out for our video log on You Tube, due to be uploaded later this week. See all the images at http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulawynne/
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