Wednesday was another lovely day so took advantage of it and spent a lot of time in the garden and grounds and tidying up the green house for winter.  Had wanted to order some pansies for spring but discovered it was too late so will have to reconsider the spring planting.  A tree surgeon also came up to look at our trees so we can plan which need some work doing to them.  Discovered another casualty from when cow 865 went on the rampage, will send her the bill for a new pot!  She also ate some of my geraniums in the trough at the bottom of the drive.  One cottage in later in the afternoon and in the evening Joanna collected me and we went to Great Longstone for the Lathkill Group WI evening.  Like the event we hosted back in March, Great Longstone provided a supper and we had a guest speaker.  We also had a speaker from Derbyshire WI HQ who updated us on various events locally and nationally.  Our main speaker had travelled independently in south east Asia and gave us an interesting talk accompanied by slides.  Thursday was a contrast with it being dull and drizzly all day. One cleaner up to keep up with cleaning in public areas and other house keeping duties.  With less occupancy coming up in the run up to Christmas the cleaner and I will be putting together a schedule of deep cleaning and other jobs to be done in the coming months.  With our friend arriving later in the day Chris and I had a blitz in the house before her arrival.  Once she had arrived we went down town to get some provisions for the next few days and had a relaxing evening. Another nice sunrise over the mist on Friday and took some shots of the autumn colour (looking down from top of garden) and cows in the mist when I took the dogs for a walk.  Three cottages out and one back in later in the day and one cleaner up.  Took our friend to Buxton in the afternoon and had a wander round in the sunshine.  As our guests were not due to arrive until very late in the evening we did not need to rush back.  They have been before and were happy to let themselves in so we had another restful evening at our peak district cottages.  Almost like being on holiday ourselves!