Where do you write at a computer desk?

[David H]

This is a serious question, since I got the computer almost 11 years ago my classic wooden desk now has a keyboard and monitor where I used to write. As there are drawers on the right I can't sit there to use the small area beyond the mousemat there, and basically have a desk and nowhere at all to write. This must affect nearly everyone still using their old desks for their computers, but is there a solution that allows the equipment to stay put and create a new place to write from the same chair?

[NazNomad]

Put a sliding shelf under the desk for your keyboard to sit on?

[Mosaic]

Just lift up the keyboard and slot it sideways against the monitor.

[sara3]

buy a bigger desk
get a laptop
write at the dining table
get a flat screen monitor and move the keyboard when you want to write

[snags]

''dining table''

Oooer get her...

[ChuckFickens]

That's a posh word for "tray on lap" isn't it?

[craft1948]

I have a writing pad at the right-hand side of the keyboard........I use a mouse positioned in front of the keyboard (without a mouse mat)

[carlton23]

Have a dekko at my Avatar for a easy computer desk from Argos. It has a sliding leaf for the keyboard and another for the mouse.

[carlton23]

Good.....innit?

[David H]

Having forgotten it no longer auto subscribed I only just remembered this again, I reckon the simplest answer of lifting up the keyboard is the likeliest to work (I will try soon), and if I tidy the desk behind it can also shift the monitor as it is a flat one already. If I can find an item to fit under the desk I will, but would make the keyboard a lot lower than now as there's a batten holding the desk together for a few inches below the top which will probably prevent any alterations.