Friday was a bit of a day at our peak district cottages.  Weather wasn’t too bad either.  No movement in the cottages so in the morning popped down into Bakewell to get some provisions for the weekend.  In the afternoon did some work around the house and the next thing I knew it was time for dinner.  I had planned to have dinner early as we had tickets to the Peak District Artisans Art Fair being held at the Dome in Buxton that evening.  After dinner I thought I would take the dogs out but took my camera as I wanted to take some photos.  We were walking into the paddock when Blue suddenly went berserk and ran off.  I found him in the office in quite a state and it looked like he was trying to bite himself.  I called Chris and when he looked at where he was trying to ‘eat’ himself he found a wasp.  We then realised he must have been stung and when Chris carried on looking he found another one and about half a dozen stings.  We weren’t sure what to do so checked on the Internet which suggested Bicarbonate of Soda, which I had.  We applied some, but like most dogs, Blue didn’t like having anything strange put on his skin.  We also thought we had better check where we the wasps were and found their nest by the entrance to the paddock.  With so many other dogs around we also knocked on all the cottage doors to tell them where not to walk their dogs.  Blue seemed calmer but we took the dogs with us to Buxton and as we were able to park right outside the Dome Chris was able to pop back out to the car and check on him.  We knew where the vets were if needed.  It was an interesting showcase of  work, there are some very talented people in the Peak District, many of whom are inspired by the wonderful surroundings!  Sad to hear about the situation in Norway especially as we stopped at Oslo on the last cruise.