Friday was the day of sunshine at our Bolehill cottages near Bakewell (see here). One departure and one arrival and one cleaner here.  A warm morning and it was nice to hear the sound of cutters on the other side of the road.  With a grocery delivery in the morning I had enough provisions to last the weekend so after the cleaning and checks I spent some time potting out the plants I had bought the other day. Guests arrived about 3pm, they have been before.  One of the other cottages left later in the evening as the forecast for the morning was not very good. We kept an eye on the silaging that was taking place on Andrews side of the road and they didn’t finish until gone 11pm.  25 acres down, 100 more to go – when the weather permits.  The forecast indicated a wave of storms in the early hours then another wave between about 10am and 1pm, which was the worse time for us.  During the evening the forecast changed and the earlier wave seemed to be arriving later so in reality the first wave arrived about 8am and lasted an hour which caught some of the early departures.  Chris did an early lollipop duty so some of the cows on this side of the road could go and nibble any grass around the edges of the fields that had been cut.  Most of the seven departures had gone by 9.30 so cleaning got off to an early start and early finish. The rain eased mid morning but came back again with a vengeance for a couple of hours around the middle of the day so I got a little wet but all checks done by 2pm.  A 3pm rush with three arrivals one of which has been before with a further two at 4pm, one of which had been before and final arrivals just after 6pm.  The afternoon turned out very nice but another heavy shower after dinner left a spectacular rainbow which I took some photos of when I took the dogs out. Later as it started to go dark it was interesting to watch the mist rise from the dales.