Down time?

Today’s will be a relatively short post. I spend a lot of my time focussing on mindfulness and positivity and given that I feel that I have been arguing with people all day, I’m not sure that I am feeling very positive. Today was supposed to be a day off but I seem to have spent the whole time on the phone or online. I am now absolutely exhausted.

At the moment the gite d’etape is not going well. I have groups arrive who are not expecting what they have been booked into. The company who left a mess are still trying to decide whether to pay or not. In fact yesterday evening one of the men that left the mess rang me to tell me that he and his colleagues were being charged by their company and that they’re not happy. Well I’m not happy either!

One of the groups that came in last night is also a problem. They obviously used one of my salons as a bedroom last night. They have only paid for one room, so another conversation has had to occur. At the moment I don’t want a gite d’etape! We have said that we will be rethinking what we are doing at the end of the season. The last couple of weeks have been extremely stressful one way or another.

We did go and sit by the lake, Lac Saint Michel, one point this afternoon. It was really too hot sitting there. There were beautiful views despite the burnt soil from the fires over the last couple of weeks. What was also incredible was that we were able to sit there, listening to birds, and not seeing anyone. We saw three herons and we think that we also heard some peewits, which was rather soothing.

I am hoping for a better day tomorrow. Until then…