We are in a transitional stage with more and more guests staying for a week so although we had three cottages out of our Bakewell cottages we only had one retuning .  One cleaner up this morning and later in the morning went down to Bakewell for the weekends provisions.  Chris came too and as he does not often come down to Bakewell he took his camera, which was handy as they happened to be filming an episode of the Great British Bake Off in one of the central car parks.  We came home via the Chatsworth Farm Shop. On the way we passed Hassop station which until recently had been a bookshop with a cafe.  It has recently re opened as a cafe with a book shop and with a plan of hiring bikes for the adjacent Monsal Trail. This will be handy when they re open the tunnels.  Another warm day and after our guests had arrived I continued to put out more of my plants.  I decided to plant up the trough at the entrance of the drive.  As I had to walk all the way down the drive and the cows who are naturally inquisitive followed me down then followed me back up! Had hoped for a picnic but it started to look ominous so we had dinner al fresco!

The weather for May showed we had a very dry month, only .76 in rain of which 1/3 fell in just one hour on 29/5 which had a total .38 in rain.  May 2009 had 3.91 in rain.  Hottest day was 23/5 with highest temp 25.8 deg C and that night was the warmest.  The coldest day (and night) was 10/5 withlowest temp 1.2 deg C.