Hey!  I thought it was supposed to be August!  It was really cool and drizzly on Monday at our peak district cottages.  One cottage out with two back in, both have been before.  One cleaner up and no problems encountered. Found some jobs for Chris in the vacated cottages (re-silicon a sink, take down a wall cupboard) and the same happened on Tuesday.  Two cottages out and one back in, they have been before.  Another cool day, but felt milder.  Weather statistics for this summer show it to be the coolest since 1993.  So when are we going to have a decent summer?  (How about 2012 so we can have that ‘feel good’ factor with the Olympics and Diamond Jubilee).  Laundry and Rubbish collected too.  Time for some accounts as I like to be up straight at the end of each month before the next set of bills come in. Wednesday was a little brighter and a bit of a pottering day.  Chatted to guests, chatted to Andrew when he came to feed the cows.  Wished I had taken my camera as there was a classic shot of Smudge eating out of the cow trough while the cows looked on. You’d have thought they would have moved him to get at their food!  With the second digital changeover having occurred in the early hours of the morning Chris spent some time retunung TV’s in the house and cottages.  One cottage in.  They have been before, and they mentioned there was a flower festival at Monyash so later in the afternoon we had a little excursion to have a look, except we got there just after it had closed for the day.

Weather stats for August.  3rd August was the warmest and wettest day (.37in) with the highest temperature (24.4 deg C) and the night of the 2nd was the warmest. So despite some wetter days on the face of it the fact that all that rain fell within an hour gave the 3rd another record for the month. (most rain within an hour). The total rain for August was 2.06 in (Aug 2010 2.24 in). The coldest day was 26th with coldest night 28th and lowest temp 8.1 on 25th. Highest UV was 8.1 so the sun still has some strength.  Hoping for a better September. (PS My alternative weather forecaster has given a 32% chance of a white Xmas).