Well I guess we could start with the weather statistics at our peak district cottages especially as April has been declared the wettest one in over a hundred years.  30th April turned out to be the warmest day with the highest temperature of 14.4C.  Before that the highest temperature had been 10.9C on 26th which had been the warmest day, which says it all about April.  The night of 25th was warmest.  Coldest day and night was 4th with a temperature of -0.1C and a wind chill of -5.2C.  Wettest day was 25th with .76 in rain.  April 2012 showed 4.44 in rain compared to 0.42 in April 2011.  So Sunday was wet but not as wet as Wednesday and it was windy so it was a stay at home day.  One cottage out and most of the rest stayed in all day.  Only consolation is that it was the worst day of the week weather wise.  Monday was by contrast, probably the best.  Warm sunshine, blue skies, just as April should be.  Two cottages out and one back in arriving about 5pm.  One cleaner up and whether it was because it felt so nice, I seemed to get a lot done.  The wind had brought down a lot of twigs so I spent some time picking these up from the car park and garden and I planted up some summer bulbs and lettuce plugs I had bought on Saturday.  In the vacant cottages I finished off some more jobs on my list. Indoors I finished off the accounts for the month.  In the evening Chris went to the AGM of the Bakewell Photographic Society and I took the dogs for a walk in the late evening sunshine.