Beer Tapas at the Lathkil

Monday was a fine day at our Bolehill Cottages near Bakewell (see here). A busy day with two departures and four arrivals and two cleaners here.  The Tuesday handyman here too and he and Chris did a lot of odd jobs around the gardens and grounds.  Andrew was moving cows and also rebuilt a part of one of our stone walls which had fallen down.  Sometimes they just do that.  All cleaning and checks finished before guests arrivals. Three here by 4pm, one has been before and one is already here for L’Eroica and final one here by 6pm, they have also been before.  In the evening I went to the Over Haddon Village Hall Committee meeting.  As this was the first meeting after the AGM there was a lot to cover so it was longer than usual.  Tuesday was the best day of the week with warm sunshine for most of the day.  We went down to Bakewell later in the

Coconut Cake at the Garden Tea Room

morning, I got some provisions for the next couple of days while Chris went to the builders merchants and the repair centre as one of the strimmers is not working.  We then went to the agricultural merchants to look at a new gate for the garden as it needs replacing following the cow invasion.  As it was so nice we thought we would have lunch out.  It was quite busy in Bakewell so we dropped the shopping off then went to the Lathkil for lunch.  We were able to sit out and enjoy the view. We then walked round to the garden Tearoom and had a chat with Karen and Mark and of course some tea and cake!  Back home I did a little more planting out and Chris used the old strimmer to do some tidying up of edges.  After tea I collected Joanna and we went down to Bakewell for WI.  This months speaker was the Director of Northern Tea Merchants in Chesterfield who gave us an interesting talk on Fairtrade Tea.  A Lovely sunset but the colours had gone by the time I got home.