Monday saw three departures leaving us a bit quiet for a few days.  One cleaner up to start on cleaning and preparing cottages for Christmas arrivals. Thought I might do three trees in the cottages but only ended up completing one.  In the evening I went to the Village Hall but this Monday it was for the Village Hall Committee meeting.  Tuesday was a different day with Chris over at Buxton clearing out the house now work is almost complete.   Went over too to help bring things back and also did a bit of shopping so very little got done at our peak district cottages although one cleaner was up to carry on with cleaning.  Wednesday I planned a blitz on trees and got two done before I collected my latest guests from Bakewell as they do not have a car.  They are from Singapore via London.  Although the forecast had been for a wet day it didn’t arrive until later in the day and Thursday was even worse with nearly an inch of rain but I got three trees done despite feeling grotty, Chris also has a cold so as long as we are better by the weekend that will fine.