Up early Sunday 15th June and took the dogs out first thing just as Joanna was bringing the cows in for milking across the way from our Bolehill Cottages (see here).  A quiet drive over to Hope Sports Club to do the car boot sale and there by 7 am.  There are closer ones but the ones at Hope are always very busy and with views towards Win and Lose Hills you get scenery as well.  Everything was going well until 11.30 when the heavens opened.  No-one was expecting that so it was a quick dash to load up the car but I got quite wet, thank heavens for the drying room when I got home.  Final check on cottage due in and they arrived just after 3pm. They have been before. It stayed quite murky through the afternoon but silaging finally finished late in the afternoon.  Monday was a better day with a sunny start.  Two departures and three arrivals and two cleaners here.  A busy morning but after first arrival at 3pm there was a break of a couple of hours before the next two cottages arrived so had a chance to catch up with paper work.  With cows dispersed from the nearby fields to eat around the edges of the silaged fields I was able to take the dogs further afield for their evening constitution.  Tuesday was forecast to be fine and it stayed dry. Handyman up and he and Chris did some (severe) pruning of trees around the car park and grounds.  I headed to Buxton for a few hours and on the way back picked up the last of the bedding plants (four dozen geraniums and one dozen marigolds) to put out later in the week.  The hanging baskets are establishing themselves and it is nice to see some colour in the courtyard.  Later in the afternoon a group of hooligans escaped their field and started munching in the front field.  They  were a nuisance as they would not go back so later Andrew came up and we helped round them up and got them back. When I took the dogs out in the evening I noticed three cows had jumped the wall again and were back in the front fields.  ASBO’s all round then.