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The relief as the dam bursts on Sunday night when I tell the world officially about the new practice project and the new TCC facility that is being built in Nottingham.

This is the worst kept secret, certainly in my life, and many people have had snippets and pieces of what this project involves but nobody yet (not even everybody at work) has the full insight of what has been involved in pulling this together.

That will be saved for the 2^nd May and for the launch night to our referring dental practitioner group and a few selected and invited others who will come to see the project in all its glory. If you are in any way interested in that it may be worth signing up to the cube blog which will tell the story every Sunday night from here to just past opening.

What’s happening now though is (and what a joy it is to be able to speak openly about it now) is that we are in the transition phase from the old to the new. On Friday I was  pretty much officially kicked out of my office (in the nicest possible way by my general manager come managing director Hayley Brown) My new PA, Jordan, started this week and this takes us up to number 36 members of the team. With more people likely to come in, there simply is not the room in that existing premises even working creatively, to keep us all there.

I remember well walking in to that office for the first time when I was introduced to the practice by Ian Peace. There was nothing in it except a set of old golf clubs and some nicks and knacks lying around. It then became my own office as Ian had the office next door but then when we brought in Anna who was my first PA at the practice, Ian and I shared an office as I took over as a partner. I was thrown back in to that office as we expanded and we needed a bigger office for the team after I took over the practice in my own right and now we manage to fit in 5 people in to that office when were at full capacity but now we need more room. So it will be time for me to go in to my office and take out all my personal nick knacks, the medals on the wall, the books off the shelf and the memorabilia off the window sill. The desk which I recycled from my own house into here will go and two smaller decks will arrive, we will leave a little space for meetings in that office but it will be tight. We will still be hot desking like mad and running shifts like mad just to try and keep on top of things in a site that we outgrew years ago.

It reminded me of the Julia Donaldson book that I used to read to my children ‘A Squash and a Squeeze’. In a squash and a squeeze the old lady complains that the house is too small and so the old man that comes tells her to bring all her animals in to the house one by one until she can’t stand it and she is so cramped she feels she might die. She then removes the animals from the house only to realise how much space she has available!

Not quite the same in this story but when I move in to my new place in December of this year the facility, the space and the wonderful working environment that we are creating will be such an extraordinary transition from where we are now it’s almost hard to believe.

Blog Post Number: 1951