Another Day another load of Snow

Now this is really starting to get boring.  Another 2.5 hours out in the snow this morning (before breakfast) clearing the drive and the footpaths, to our peak district cottages, of snow.  It wasn’t very pleasant this morning.  A biting north wind, wet snow (you know what I mean) and driving icy rain.  I was [...]

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Ops Forgot the Blinds

It’s not quite fair to say I forgot the blinds in Bluebell (the smallest of our peak district cottages).  We had them on order but they didn’t arrive till just before Christmas so I didn’t get time to fit them.  Well Bluebell was free today (guests don’t come in till tomorrow) so I decided I [...]

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Bank Holiday – What bank Holiday

A beautiful day but no time to admire it as we had six of our peak district cottages out and seven back  in.  Although this isn’t anything out of the normal (in summer we have eight cottages out and eight back in on most Saturdays) it is usually the most cleaning intensive ‘change over’, as [...]

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Peak District Cottages – A day Off

Again no snow to clear at our Peak District Cottages.  In fact the snow has started to melt and we are starting to see some of the grass popping through.  Boxing day is usually a day for a long walk (weather permitting) but our friend’s husband has a bad back from clearing snow at home [...]

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Peak District Cottages – No Snow Clearnace today

Chrismas Day and NO snow to clear.  Still a lot of snow on the ground but no overnight snow so no nead to clear any paths to our peak district cottages etc.  A day of peace and quite with our friends. Merry Christmas Peak district cottages – Our Dogs on Xmas Day

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Christmas Eve – Another Morning of Snow Clearance

Another 1-2″ of snow fell again last night so once again it was out with the trusty helpers to clear the drive and the paths to our Peak District Cottages.  It was a lot easier this time as the snow had settled on top of the previous day’s salt/gritting.  A walk up and down the [...]

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More Snow to Clear and ‘Shopping’

Yet more snow to clear at our Peak district cottages.  Out by 9:00 to get the cottage courtyard, paths and drive cleared.  I have learnt my lesson from the other day – get the drive clear before anyone from the cottages uses it and compacts the snow.  This new strategy seemed to work.  Far easier [...]

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A Quieter day

A quieter day today at our peak district cottages.  I needed to pop down to  Bakewell to get some replacement salt/grit,  So went down with Shirley and helped with the shopping.  As we have friends arriving for Christmas I decided it was time to clear up the house after all the maintenance work over the [...]

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More Snow clearance at our Peak District cottages

More snow fell last night and we had the majority of our christmas guest arriving today.  So up with the larks (not difficult at this time of year) and out to start clearing the drive to our peak district cottages. Five hours later …. (and that was with the help of the tractor and scraper).  [...]

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Peak District Cottages – Snow Clearance

I thought we had got away without snow at our Peak District cottages but no.  Woke this morning to 1″-2″ of snow.  Straight away I noticed no-one had been down the drive from the cottages yet.  This makes a tremendous difference to snow clearance.  Once a car has been up or down the drive it [...]

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