Well the nightmare began late on Saturday night at our peak district cottages when Chris  turned on a tap and just a trickle came out.  He went down to the meter and came back because the meter at the bottom of the field indicated water was passing through but it wasn’t getting to the house so there had be a leak.  As it was gone 11pm we decided the best thing we could do was get some drinking water for the guests for the morning and see what the situation was then.  Luckily we found the Tesco Express in Buxton was open 24 hours so Chris set off only to get there just after midnight and find they were closed!  Luckily it was just for a break so half an hour later he was able to buy some water and by 1am we were putting bottles of water on cottage steps with notices explaining the situation.  The alarm went off at 7am and Chris went down to the farm to get some water for flushing toilets and then went to check the meter again.  He came back perplexed as it was still showing water passing through but the meter was going backwards!  Hopefully that meant the leak was not on our land.  He spoke to Severn Trent and they said someone would be there within the hour and they were.  They had recorded a loss of pressure in the area and were able to report they had found a leak about half a mile along the road towards Monyash.  They were not expecting it to take long to repair but we had to forgo the walk I had planned.  As it was nice Chris and I did a number of outside jobs.  A couple of times Chris drove over to where the leak was to see the progress.  As the leak was on the main road they were going to need traffic lights for traffic control but by the time they arrived the digger men had finished their shift so digging could not start until the next shift arrived!  At one stage it looked like we would have water back by 7pm but this came and went. As we had tickets for the Opera House at Buxton we gave them to Joanna to use as realised we would not get there in time.  We provided more drinking water to guests as needed and Chris did a couple of trips during the day to make sure the other water containers were full.  With it being a nice day guests were out until later in the day.  Chris did a final trip at about 10.30 but work was still in progress so we were resigned to the fact we would not have water for another night but just after 11pm we could hear the sound of cistern refilling so we went to bed a lot more relieved (and clean!)