Friday morning saw one departure at our peak district cottages and one cleaner up.  I went down to Bakewell to get provisions for the weekend and found Bakewell very busy.  You get used to seeing empty spaces in the car park and then all of a sudden its busy again.  Another sign of it being busy is the people who try to cross the road with moving traffic when there are plenty of pedestrian crossings available.  There was one fatality last summer when someone dashed out and got knocked over.  Caught up on some accounts in the afternoon and some odd jobs around the house. One cottage left late evening to avoid the predicted wet weather and on Saturday morning a further four cottages left.  Felt really strange wandering around empty cottages checking them after the guests had gone.  By this time the rain had set in and a sudden hail shower meant I got quite wet.  Two cleaners up today to start turning round cottages for next week.  By lunchtime the sun had come out and you could feel the drop in temperature.  Sat down with Chris and looked at what jobs still needed doing in the cottages before we start the outside jobs.  Stocked up on logs and a few more odd jobs and that was the day gone and a late wintry shower left a dusting of snow!