Tuesday saw one departure at our peak district cottages with one cleaner up.  A dull day but it was mild.  Spent some time on WI accounts and later in the afternoon we and got the cows in.  Not that we needed to do much as most were waiting to go in anyway.  Poor Smudge, he does enjoy getting the cows in but he came back so muddy that I had to swoosh him and he doesn’t enjoy that.  Wednesday saw a little more brightness and some afternoon sunshine.  One cottage out and did have a potential last minute booking but the forecast put them off.  Doesn’t help our bookings this wet weather.  Have some new curtain to hang up in one of the cottages but one pair need the hem taking up so I prepared them for sewing.  In the end didn’t take Smudge to bring in the cows even though it was sunny and warm as I was still wading through mud and I thought it not fair on Smudge to keep being hosed down.  Even in the wettest of winters I cannot recall the fields being so muddy.  Lynne collected me for the Over Haddon WI committee meeting as she has also joined our committee.  She has also been stuck in mud but she was saying a farmer near Chapel has cut his grass for silage but the fields are too wet to get the tractors in for collecting so it could rot.  Thursday stands out because … it was sunny, warm and dry!  In the morning we popped down to Bakewell for our dental check-up and get some provisions for the weekend.  Once home I spent a little time before lunch checking on the hanging baskets.  They are so full of water that I actually emptied some of the water out before feeding them.  After lunch I went to Buxton to get some bits.  Despite a forecast of thundery downpours we were lucky enough to miss them until much later in the evening when we had nearly half an inch of rain in a few minutes.  The dogs weren’t impressed with the thunder, Smudge wouldn’t even finish his dinner.  Chris went out to close the cows out of the front field as they have been moved to another field and said there was a stream of water running down the field. There was so much water coming off the field that it filled the cattle grid then ran on to the road. At least the fine weather during the day cheered us all up.  Just as well as the forecast for Friday is abysmal.