Another bank holiday but another working day for us at our peak district cottages.  Five cottages out with three back in, one of which are regular guests.  Two cleaners up and no problems encountered.  Morning seemed to go quickly and guests arrived between 3 and 5pm.  Tuesday was a repeat performance with two cottages out and two back in when mid morning I got a phone call from the Ashbourne Tourist Office who had a booking foe me.  Luckily with two cleaners up getting a third cottage ready was not a problem.  Tuesday also saw the rubbish and laundry collected.  With all the changeovers in the last week or so I am running low on clean laundry.  Luckily the lot sent today should be back for Friday which is just as well as we have a number of cottages in on Saturday.  Of course all the changeovers means lots of pillowcases, tea towels bathmats etc to wash too!   With it being so nice I have been drying laundry outside when I can but today one of my airers broke so another thing to replace.  With April being declared one of the warmest on record we have been looking at the grass in the garden which is starting to turn brown in places.  There is increasing worry about fires in the area, on Sunday we could see thick smoke billowing out from behind Stanton and it turned out that there was a grass fire on the moor.  Handyman up late afternoon and he and Chris put up some scaffolding so they can look at a roof on Wednesday especially now it is not so breezy.  The three cottages arrived between 3 and 4.30 and I decided to sit down early for a change.