A brief pause in the nice weather

Rutland Arms BakewellAfter a few nice days the weather turned again at our cottages near Bakewell (see here). Thursday started dry but by lunchtime we had some light rain. A quiet day with no arrivals and departures so I popped down to Bakewell in the morning to get some provisions before the rain set in then spent the afternoon working on the accounts as the quarter end approaches. With Andrew back cows got moved into the front field again so Chris helped with the electric fence. The last of the cows were let out for the summer so there is more black and white on the landscape.  Friday saw showers on and off but it felt muggy. Two departures and three arrivals and one cleaner up. All cottages arrived between 4 and 5pm. Joanna popped up with a thank you cake for our help but Smudge did a lot of the work and although he did get a look at the cake he didn’t get any to eat! At least Saturday,29th June,  saw an improvement in the weather. Three cottages left with only one arrival and one cleaner up. I went down early to the Farmers Market and then onto Chatsworth Farm shop to get some picnic food for Sunday. I had just got back and was chatting to some of the guests when we heard low flying aircraft and suddenly flying over us were the Red Arrows with a Sentinel aircraft,  I knew they were doing a fly past at Nottingham ten minutes later and ten minutes after that they flew passed us again! Lucky me!  It brightened and warmed up during the day and Chris cut the grass. Cottage arrived just after 3pm, they have been before, so I got ahead of myself by doing some extra washing. The forecast is for the hottest day of the year on Sunday so roll on Sunday!