23 May 2012 saw a warm sunny day with the warmest day of the month at Bolehill and a temperature of 23.4 deg C.  A year later we saw a temperature of 6.deg C with squally hail showers, wet snow and a cold wind!  In the morning I went to Buxton to do a supermarket shop and do banking etc.  On the way back I called in at the nursery to see my hanging baskets which are coming along fine.  The owner is despairing of the weather as it is too cold to bring out the bedding plants to sell and many plants are not coming along well because of the low temperatures.  Whilst there one of the heavy hail showers which left the ground white over.  Back home the afternoon went in accounts and later on we were back in Buxton as we had tickets for Made in Brum.  Jasper Carrott hosted an evening of entertainment by a number of ‘mature’ performers who originated from the Brum including Bev Bevan and Geoff Turton.  An enjoyable evening. Friday remained cool but with the promise of a much better weekend.  A windy day with leaves, which have only been on the trees a matter of weeks, blowing around.  The back lawn looked more like October on an autumnal day than May.  Two departures and three arrivals and one cleaner up.  As I didn’t need to go to Bakewell I managed to have everything ready for arrivals before lunch.  First guests arrived just before 3pm, they are from the Netherlands with second cottage arriving at 4.30.  Final cottage arrived about 5pm, they have been before. With a cold night forecast I put a fleece over some of the plants I still haven’t planted in and it sounds like I may have to do so again over the next couple of nights.  The talk is that we may have had the coldest spring for over thirty years.