Bewitched

It's the very early hours, after 4am. Tired but can't sleep. Dark and cold outside. Quiet, before the traffic starts for Monday morning workers, just the very occasional car passing by outside, a bus each hour. Cat asleep end of the bed, it likes the electric blanket. Too early for the birds even, won't start getting light yet for an hour and a half yet. Seems like the night is going on too long or something.

Have heard this sort of thing described before as the "bewitching hours". Can't even hear that background noise of traffic that usually is there; a white noise that sort of hovers over the city from everywhere in the distance.

Beginning of the working week shortly. Everyone busy, the city is like it wakes up. The buses go past outside my window a minute or two apart often. It's a main st, one of the busiest roads in Sydney. Strange when it's so quiet there now.

I do hope this week goes well.