Saturday started on the cool side and although it brightened up it never really warmed up.  Most cottages away before 10am so an early start to cleaning.  No problems encountered and with three cleaners all finished by lunchtime.  Every week try to do some different checks until I run out of time, this week it was cutlery and utensils.  After lunch I was still doing my checks when first cottage arrived at 2.30pm.  By the time I finished my checks at 2.45pm three cars were waiting in the car park so Chris, just having cut the grass, came and helped showed guests in.  Of the eight cottages arriving today at our peak district cottages three have been before.  Five cottages were settled in by 3.15pm with two more by 4pm.  Final one arrived just before 5pm.  Seven cottages in for the week. Finished July’s accounts just in time for the August bills to start arriving!

Weather stats for July.  We had 2.78 in rain (July 09 6.29 – but then that was an exceptionally wet month) with the wettest day 20/7 with .5 in, most of which was early am like 2am or 6pm or later.  Warmest day was 10/7 and that night was the warmest with highest temp of 23.3 on 9/7.  Coldest day was 12/7 and coldest night 22/7 with lowest temp of 9.1 on 6/7. Highest UV was 9.3 this month and possibly could be the highest value for this year.  We’ll see.