I’m working silly hours at the moment and am suffering from a creeping, syrupy tiredness that makes my limbs ache and my mind feel dull and uninteresting/uninterested (some may say I’m always dull and uninteresting I suppose but I like to think I have my moments).

This shot was ‘grabbed’ during a two-minute fresh air break in two days where we (me and the other directors of our company) entered a dark room and spent two whole days dissecting budgets and numbers until we were all so ‘number drunk’ that we felt as though we’d been through a mangle.

What’s sad is that years ago, when we did this task, which is just about the most depressing one I can think of anyway, we’d have done it in an ‘ivory tower’ where if someone wanted one of us, their only choices would have been to leave a message with a secretary back at the ranch, or fax something to us. That meant it was relatively easy to concentrate on the task in hand, without distractions and without needing to send emails or telephone people.

In the modern age, people expect to be able to contact you every working day (and to be frank, some even expect to be able to contact you on non-working days too) at any time and to get an immediate response. So, every time we left the table for two minutes, the mobile phones would come out and calls made to who-knows-where. Laptops were on the table, with emails pinging into in-boxes and furrowed brows of people trying to respond to life in their day job as well as stay on top of the meeting. It seems it's no longer acceptable in business to say 'I'm sorry so-and-so is out of the office today and can't be contacted. He/she will call you tomorrow.

I know it was my decision to come to Cornwall to live, but it is tough when the meeting in London ends late afternoon and I then have a five-hour journey before getting home.

On the train on the way home, I picked up a discarded paper and read my horrid-scope, which I am shockingly superstitious about for a so-called business woman. It said words along the lines of …..Saturn is leaving your sign after a two year period where all aspects of your life, especially work have been very difficult and demanding. You should soon start to see your actions having a positive outcome, without the struggles that you’ve faced in recent times.

Of course most would say they’re pointless, superstitious nonsense but I NEED some straws to clutch and this provides me with a straw to hang onto in my sweaty little mit very nicely.

Last year, I was dashing around shoving things behind sofas and photographing the garden