It rained all Friday night at our Bolehill cottages near Bakewell see here.  It remained wet for most of Saturday and you know I dislike changeovers in the rain.  Four departures and five arrivals and two cleaners here.  The milk cows were out for the first time Friday night, almost a month later than usual.  All cleaning and checks completed by lunchtime and the rain eased off for a couple of hours.  Three arrivals here by 3.30 and remaining two by 4pm.  Three have been before, one before we were here and they had found some pictures of how Bolehill looked at least twenty years ago!  The forecast for Sunday was constantly changing so it was nice to wake up to some sunshine even if it didn’t last.  Two departures but no arrivals.  We had hoped to go to the Monyash open gardens and the forecast indicated that the morning would be best so we went in time for opening at 11am.

looking to Bolehill

Monyash church like a number of churches in the area needs some roof repairs not helped by some lead being stolen before Christmas.  Although we have walked round Monyash many times, like Birchover, we still found houses hidden down little alleyways we didn’t know existed and today we found the Quaker cemetery only visible from someone’s back garden!  From one garden we could also make out the trees surrounding our property.  There was also a vintage car rally passing through the village so there was plenty to see.  We got back to the car just as it started to drizzle.  The afternoon went in housework and odd jobs and there were a few passing showers so I think we chose well to go in the morning.