A sunny but cold start to Monday at our Bolehill cottages near Bakewell (see here).  Should have chosen this Monday to go to the market especially as we had no departures or arrivals. One cleaner here to keep up with cleaning.  After she left we headed to Hopton Hall as the weather was nice and after lunch in their tearoom we had a walk around the gardens admiring the snowdrops.  Probably just past their best but their was some blossom already emerging on the trees.  Guess it hadn’t seen the forecast for snow on Wednesday!  Back home I popped round to visit one of our guests as she owns a haberdashery shop and I wanted advice on some knitting.  After an early tea I went down to Bakewell with Chris to the Photgraphic Society as the speaker (who I also knew) was giving a talk on the Plitvice National Park in Croatia which is somewhere I have always wanted to visit.  Chris said now I’ve seen the photos I don’t need to go!  A very cold night with a frosty start to Tuesday morning.  Two departures and one arrival with handyman and a cleaner here.  After coffee I went down to Bakewell to get provisions for the next couple of days.  As it was half term Bakewell was busier than usual.  Will have to start getting used to more people and cars in Bakewell again.  After lunch final checks in cottage then some accounts.  Cottage arrived at 5pm, they have been before.  A weather warning for snow was in place for Wednesday but the amounts of rain/sleet/snow forecast kept changing.  Wednesday was a very wet and cold day but at least there was no snow.  One departure and one arrival and with cottage already prepared I only needed to do the final checks.  This left me most of the day to concentrate on accounts, caught up with last months accounts and preparation of last years accounts for the accountants so felt I got a lot done.  Cottage arrived at 4pm.  Enjoy the photos from Monday.