Some days go as expected.  Monday did.  It was a fine day with usual Monday events and one cottage in later in the day with one cleaner up.  Tuesday did not go to plan but sometimes its for the better.  One cottage out with one back in and one cleaner up.  A bit more showery weather wise. Cottage arrived earlier than expected, they are from Holland and weren’t sure how long it would take to drive here from the ferry.  This meant I had more of the afternoon free than I expected.  Initially I had planned to pop down to Bakewell but decided I had time to go to Matlock and do a supermarket shop.  This meant I would have all day Thursday to do things rather than having to do another visit to Bakewell and a supermarket shop.  Chris came with me to Matlock, we called in to look at the new Recycling Center at Darley Dale, this will save trips to the other side of Buxton in the future.  On the way back we called in to visit the former owners of our peak district cottages. When we got back we had a little mystery as there was a box of plums waiting on the doorstep.  One of our guests told us the ‘mushroom man’ had left them for us.  This didn’t mean anything so we made a few phone calls and discovered that Andrew had met someone as he was driving out of his fields on this side of the road who had spotted the mushrooms in the fields (there are a lot of mushrooms in our fields this year) and Andrew had said he could pick some.  He must have left some plums in return for the mushrooms thinking Andrew lived here.  We gave the plums to Andrew as he likes them more than we do, and we don’t like the taste of the mushrooms in the fields anyway!