Kept awake by rain early morning and by time took dogs out we had already had .75 in rain at our peak district cottages.  One cottage departed. Down to Bakewell mid morning to get hair cut and luckily it cleared up so I didn’t get my hair wet afterwards.  Got some provisions for the next few days before heading home for lunch.  The afternoon went in paperwork and one of the exhibitors at Chatsworth returned for this weekends event, the other one having stayed on but popping home to restock overnight.  The forecast for Thursday was not promising with high winds and rain expected from lunchtime.  One departure in the morning and one cleaner up.  After an early lunch I headed to Matlock stopping at Peak Village first.  It was still dry when I left and headed for Sainsbury’s and still dry when I started back for home although the wind had picked up.  One of our guests followed me up the hill narrowly missing a for sale sign that suddenly took off.  In the car park there were a few small branches down and I noticed one of my hanging baskets had also been blown down so Chris went and took the remaining ones down as the wind was very strong by now.  We also allowed guests to park in the courtyard as it was more sheltered.  At 5pm the heavens just opened and by now I was wondering if I would make it to Buxton to see a performance of Calendar Girls at the Opera House.  The heavy rain and wind subsided by the time I set off but there was lots of very big puddles to negotiate.  I took one of the other Over Haddon WI members with me and we met up with others from the WI there.  After a wonderful performance the weather had calmed down for our drive back.