no inspiration -

a day of sand and cement -

my haiku must wait -

Bond sand lime and stones -
Glopiter revolves -
A new foundation -

stuck on fresh wet paint -

a butterfly’s wings can’t move -

so many colors -

Longing to escape -

My balloon tugs at the wind -

But it talks in squeaks -

My coat is not warm -
Yet it satisfies your eye -
By hiding the truth -

Glazed crazed iced cover –
Deep sleeping summer promise –
Our pool rests and waits –

….. Waiting for you at Villa Roquette this summer

Fractured cream froth coat
Roquette flowers will push through
March snow is soon gone

I aim to “Suffer A Sea-Change”. A time to alter, a time not to fade, but to make bones of coral and eyes of pearls.

Our home has been the focus of work and investment for over two years, creating apartments and services so we can welcome guests, as we did for ten years in our previous home in Nizas. the problem is I am divided between working on two more apartments and working on the marketing needed to bring paying guests to our home.

Being a simple person, a bear of little brain, I am incapable of doing two things at the same time, so when I am ‘rude mechanical’ mode I am incapable of working on internet sites and writing newsletter, blogging and networking – but when, like now, I work with the keyboard, the vital painting, bricklaying and concreting are vague duties to be done “later”.

The stimulus is the need to earn some money – all we have is invested in our home at Villa Roquette and the Internet has changed from an open playing field to a vast sporting complex. Competition is fierce, so getting clients to our apartments from a web-site is much harder.

Hence the need to ’stiffen the sinews’ and do a bit of loin girding. I cannot do two things at the same time, so I will try to organise my time to both building and writing yet avoid conflict withing the few active grey-cells I have remaining.

Since naming our home Roquette, I have only really begun to notice the huge fields of this magical plant around us (roquette is also known as arugala and rocket). At this time of the year the fields are left to themselves and wild Roquette (there is no domesticated variety) – here is a photo I took today walking the dogs…

Field of Roquette in Montblanc

In the second world war the French resistance fought the occupation of France. near us there are many memorials, this one for the Maquis is near Moreze…

A beautiful sunny Sunday in Languedoc – we drove to a local beauty spot (with Carole my local beauty) Moreze – it is unique in Europe – if you know what a dolomite is then….