Summer is making one last stand.  Hurrah!  Wednesday was a quiet day at our peak district cottages with time to catch up with household chores and paperwork.  Also prepared for first WI committee meeting of the season later that evening when I collected Joanna and we went down to the President’s house in Bakewell.  In the afternoon went down to Bakewell which was still very busy.  Thursday was a busier day with one cottage out and three back in.  One cleaner up and time to do some odd jobs in the cottages before guests arrived.  Two cottages here by 3pm and final cottage arrived just before 6pm. In the afternoon we had some visitors, a couple who run a B&B in Great Yarmouth.  We are still members of a B&B forum with Chris making regular contributions as does the wife who came with her husband  It was warm enough to sit on the patio for a couple of hours with a cup of tea.  Planned a walk for tomorrow and took the dogs for a walk after dinner which I have been doing regularly this summer, the evenings are drawing in though.

Weather stats for August which has been declared as wetter, duller and cooler than usual.  No surprise there.  August had 2.24 in rain compared to 2.45 in rain last August. Two days, 4th and 23rd share the honours for most rain both with .27 in.  The coldest day was 26th with night of 29th being the coldest.  The warmest day was 20th with that night being the warmest.  Highest temp was 21.1 on 16/8 and lowest temp was 7.2 on 30/8.  Highest UV on 3/8 of 7.7.