The forecast was heavy showers from the off but the day got off to a sunny start and despite the odd cloud it wasn’t until later in the afternoon that the rain finally arrived. One cottage out of our peak district cottages with two back in and back to a full house. One cleaner up to do both cottages as one was left over from Saturday. Usual Monday jobs with laundry and rubbish collected and found some time to start planting out the plants in the troughs in the courtyard. At least they got watered in. Guests arrived between 3&4 pm. Took a few bookings so processed them after dinner. New pledge – I am now going to try and stop work every day by 8pm. I did this today.