I have discovered just how many Internet sites there are on ready made curtains.  Too many.  I am sure there are many home owners out there that have the same problem as me as often older houses have lower ceilings so standard lengths sold by most retailers are either too short or two long.  I usually have to buy the longer lengths and shorten them myself.  I mention this now as I am looking to replace some curtains in some of our peak district cottages and have not found anything suitable at my favourite shop.  So I have resorted to the Internet and gone boggle eyed in the process.  Talking of curtains I have started to take them down in the cottages as a part of the annual spring clean and wash them.  This also means I will have to iron them before they go back up.  So a lot of time on Monday and Tuesday went on curtains and also checking inventories and making a list of items to replace.  More shopping!  Chris and the handyman are keeping busy too as we have decided to replace some of the electric hobs with ceramic hobs.  The cleaners are being kept busy as we pull out appliances and empty cupboards to spring clean. This is all possible as we only had one cottage occupied which arrived late Tuesday afternoon. For a break from all this cleaning I went to the Over Haddon Village Hall committee meeting on Monday Evening.