Still not bothered

Is the moon waxing or waning at the moment? Are my planets not aligned? I wish I knew the answer to why I am feeling so down and depressed and lethargic this week. It really is annoying the hell out of me.

I didn't wake until 9am this morning - I can't remember the last time that I slept in that late. You would have thought I'd have felt better for it but it wasn't the case. I struggled through getting the two suites ready for the weekend guests but it was an effort. I thought about going down to the square for lunch but in the end just couldn't be bothered. I thought about going down to the square this evening for supper and to listen to the live music but again I just couldn't be bothered. There are plenty of people that I could contact for a bit of company but I haven't done so. My God, I'm dull. I'm boring myself.

Maybe it's the oppressive weather. The 'marin' wind is back - the one that drives people crazy - the hot wind from the sahara. It was gusting up to 70kph today which put paid to any cycling - far too dangerous and difficult.

So I'm going to go for an early bed again and I really really hope that I wake up in a different mood.

Let it snow, let it snow

When we awoke yesterday morning it was snowing - not a little bit of drizzly sleet but proper, big, slow falling, settling when they landed snowflakes. In no time at all the top of the cars were covered.

Two hours later it was still snowing steadily from a leaden grey sky, the road was slushly, the rooftops were white and Carcassonne had turned into a winter wonderland.

Sadly, the snow turned to rain in the afternoon and the magic slowly disappeared.

It was cold and damp and we didn't really feel like going out. We were also all still full and jaded from Christmas day so decided to postpone the wine tasting with the clients by 24 hours and watch a dvd together instead - it was an excellent decision.

We took a bit of time to get going today as well - I was up to sort breakfast and even Christian was up before 10.00am which is something of a miracle, but we were all a bit half-hearted at the market and a bit lethargic for the rest of the afternoon - well all except Christian, who knocked out another couple of lovely paintings in no time at all in a hastily put together studio in the hallway of the office space - they'll look great on the apartment walls.

I had a night off from cooking. Debrah did the majority, so that whilst I sat and spouted off about wine to our clients, Debrah brought a succession of fabulously tasty morsels to the table that complimented each of the wines we were tasting - which worked really well.

It's all over now - everything except the glasses has been washed up - time for bed.