Monday 29/7 was a fine day on the whole with a few thundery showers at out Bolehill Cottages (see here). One departure and two arrivals and one cleaner up. First cottage arrived just after 3pm, they are here for two weeks, with second cottage arriving just before 5pm, they have been before. Not warm enough to eat outside but another warm spell was forecast for later in the week. Tuesday saw no arrivals and departures and in theory was our day off but with an uncertain forecast I opted for some administration work, namely working on next years prices. Just as well as the tree man arrived to do some work on the tree in the front field. They have taken a lot off the height of the tree to save it from being taken down altogether.  It looks a bit odd at the moment but all being well it should recover in the next couple of years.  They had also brought along a cherry picker for some of the high level work which they later set up so Chris could do some work on the gable end of the games room. I also got a ride on it so took some photos of the courtyard. In the end it stayed cloudy but it didn’t rain. That arrived on Wednesday and continued most of the day although it wasn’t heavy. One departure and one arrival and one cleaner up. Cottage arrived about 5pm, they were last here as B&B guests.

So here are the weather stats for July.  Highest temperature on 13th of 27.2 degrees C and lowest on 2nd of 8.6 degrees C. Highest UV 9.3 on 3rd.  Warmest day 13th and night 18th, coldest day 2nd and night 1st.  Total rain was 3.52 inches (4.38 in 2012) but that is distorted by nearly three weeks of no rain then .87 in on 23rd, .97 in on 27th and 1.09 on 28th, most of that falling during the night.