Monday dawned bright and sunny but a breeze took the edge of the temperature at our Bolehill cottages. Two departures and three arrivals and two cleaners up.  I had hoped to get out and do some more planting but the morning went in getting cottages ready and cottage related jobs.  Chris spent some time pruning and removing some more casualties from the winter and some gutter work. After lunch Chris did his ‘lollipop patrol’ and helped bring the first of the hooligans across from the farm to spend the summer on this side of the road.  I went down as backup and took some photos.  With cows in three fields Blue is going to feel ‘cowed in’!  By the time I could have gone out to do some gardening I had to think about guests arrival.  First cottage arrived just after 3pm, they have been before, second cottage arrived about 4pm and final cottage at 5pm.  Tuesday was a wet day for most of the time with a brief dryer spell at lunchtime.  One cottage out and one cleaner up.  So no jobs outside but instead an indoor day and for me in the morning jobs around the house and sorting out various requests from guests and in the afternoon accounts.  Glad of a drying room with the number of times I took the dogs out!  Had hoped Wednesday would be an improvement on Tuesday but it wasn’t although it felt milder.  Late morning I did find time to put some more plants in the border in the car park which had lost quite a few over winter. By lunchtime the rain had set in again so back to indoor jobs.   Andrew and Joanna were out for the day so we went down with cow dog (Smudge) to round up the cows for milking.  I think the weather meant they didn’t want to hang around so they were all queuing to get in within a couple of minutes.  The rain continued on and off during the evening but they are forecasting  another fine weekend ahead.