Monday was a fine day with the promise of some warm weather on     the way for our cottages near Bakewell (see here). One departure  with two arrivals and one cleaner. Handyman here for a few days to help with some outside jobs. Now that spring has shown us what has and what hasn’t survived the winter some shrubs and an old tree need removing. Cottages arrived between 4and 5pm. As I was still feeling unwell I thought I would rest on Tuesday and have a little lie in but with the first phone call at 9.15, then 9.20, it looked like it wasn’t going to be so I got up. It was warm outside and I pottered around a little, making a note of any more bedding plants required, and prepared a cottage for today’s arrival. Had time to go down to Bakewell early afternoon to get provisions for the next few days getting back in time for guests arrival, they have been before. Later in the afternoon I went down to help bring in the cows with Smudge. Wednesday was a warm and feeling better I spent most of the day putting in the remaining bedding plants and helping out (mainly providing cups of tea!) as Chris and the handyman continued with their jobs around the place. It was nice enough to eat tea on the patio in the evening and linger for a while. That’s summer over for the time being with a breakdown forecast overnight.  So long as that was not the last of summer!