Woke up Friday to find snow – in the front garden, the garden seemed to be the snow line, so I was relieved that it was not worse and looked forward to the walk with the dogs and taking some photos at our peak district cottages.  How wrong I was.  Chris went out and decided the drive needed salting and had just got back when we got a call from our cleaner who was stuck on the cattle grid!  Chris went down and started to put more salt down just when the sheep started wandering into the field and decided he was spreading food so they all rushed over to him!  The cleaner had a couple of attempts at getting up the drive but found she couldn’t in her car so went back home to get the 4×4!  In the meantime I was keeping an eye on the departing guests, they had managed to get the car up into the courtyard but as the courtyard is mainly in the shade at this time of year it was quite icy.  They managed to get away with no problem and the cleaner managed to get up here with no problems second time round.  Two cottages due in later in the day.  Also did some preparations for cottages arriving Sunday and stocked up on logs.  First cottage arrived about 3pm and second one an hour later.  They we’re here quite recently and are here this time to see some of the Christmas events in the area but we still had a chat.

 Novembers stats – although incomplete due to the weather station not working here they are:

highest temp 12.4 on 20th which was warmest day with 13th warmest night. Lowest temp 0.4 on 17th with night of 17th being the coldest and 24th being coldest day.  2.19 in rain (11/2011 2.17 in) with wettest day 21st with .83 in.