Saturday 13 August was another dry warm day.  A busy day with five departures and four arrivals and three cleaners here, one of which was the one I interviewed on Friday. Most guests here by 4pm but final one arrived at 7.30.  For once none of the arrivals were returning guests.  Sunday was forecast to be fine but it was cloudy for most of the day with the sun eventually coming out later in the evening.  Two departures and one arrival with cottage already prepared.  Down to Bakewell to get the paper and ended up walking Smudge in the park with Karen and Mark and their dogs.  The Bakewell Baking Festival was taking place on the Showground and featured some previous winners of Bake-off. A quiet day at home and after the guests arrived later in the afternoon we went down to the tearoom for some cake.  Monday was a pleasantly warm sunny day.  No departures with one arrival and a cleaner here.  Did some gardening jobs with Chris watering plants again.  Took advantage of the nice weather with a BBQ in the evening. Tuesday was another warm day with almost wall to wall sunshine.  Two departures and two arrivals with a cleaner here.  More gardening jobs with both cottages arriving later in the afternoon, including an Italian couple that stay regularly.  Having already prepared a picnic we headed to Over Haddon and parked in the car park before walking down the lane to the Dale.  This took fifteen minutes because we kept meeting people we know!  We walked along the Dale which was very depleted of water, the lowest we can ever remember it, and at Conksbury Bridge we headed back up the hill back towards Over Haddon.  Our normal picnic spot had already been bagged by another couple but we found another location further along where we enjoyed the warm evening sun.   A hot air balloon passed over, we haven’t seen many of those this year. Back at Over Haddon we stopped for a quick drink at the pub before making our way home.