Twilight cow

Monday was a lovely day at our Bolehill cottages near Bakewell (see here), it almost felt like summer again. One departure and one arrival and one cleaner here.  Thought about going down to the market but might wait until road works finished.  At moment they are back on the Buxton Road but a lot of traders are complaining about the loss of trade since the works began.  Chris cleared leaves from the courtyard, some are already starting to fall, as well as cutting the grass and some other tidying up jobs around the premises.  Spent the afternoon on accounts and had an early tea as Chris was off to the Bakewell Photographic club.  Cottage arrived about 7pm and as it was not quite dark took the dogs for a walk in the grounds.  Tuesday 23rd September was another fine day, last official day of summer, so now daylight hours will be shorter. One departure and one arrival and one cleaner here.  A morning of odd jobs and some time in the garden before it started to cloud over.  Cottage arrived about 4pm.  Some more WI work as it is soon the end of the annual accounts (and quarter accounts for Bolehill) and later in the evening we saw some rain.  Wednesday was a lot fresher.  No arrivals or departures but time to spend chatting with guests and a number of odd jobs.  In the afternoon I went to Sainsbury’s via the recycling centre and on the way heard the breaking news that the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire had died.  Sad news.  When I got back Ian was there as he was dropping off some tickets for the Over Haddon Harvest supper.  We have a lot of social activities over the next couple weeks.