Welcome to an upside down blog all out of date sequence! I always plan to do it in date order but it is taking too long today - so we are starting with wells dressings - that marvellous old Derbyshire traditional started in pagan times to worship the god of water and now a Christian thanksgiving for the gift of water and life.
These were the wells at Ashford -in-the-Water near Bakewell - always a good village to see them at as they dress several wells.
Ashford is such a pretty village with very traditional Derbyshire stone built houses.
It was also the weekend when the Railway modelling society puts on a brilliant day out for model railway enthusiasts at the Agricultural Centre in Bakewell.
We take our 2 grand children and this is one of their favourite layouts - specially done for children.
After we'd seen enough for both children and, of course, Nic, we had a picnic by the river at Bakewell where the ducks and swans love to be fed and the icecream seller did a brisk trade on a lovely sunny day.
The views all around the White Peak are so lovely and this tranquil rural scene below was very typical.
In late May we took a break after lambing, which is always hard work for Nic, and flew to Atlanta to visit Alison and our American family.
Alison with little Adison Rose - an absolute delight and such an easy child. She is wearing a dress my Mom made for Alison and which looks perfect still.
We always have a treat at our favourite Longhorn Steakhouse which serves the most wonderful steaks and is full of atmosphere.
Nicolas showing us how big our steaks will be!
Adison and Nicolas behaved beautifully even though the service was slow that night.
Our joy each morning was to have a little boy climb into our bed for special bonding time.
Then on a blisteringly hot day we were taken to our first baseball game which was great fun. We wilted in the heat on the grass berm where all the families sat so, after an instruction on the finer points of the game from Adam, Nic and I went to the shade near the stands.
There we got chatting to a retired Methodist minister who loves baseball and acts as an usher and was fascinated to hear that we lived in a house that had sheltered John Wesley, that great Methodist hymn writer.
And then it was time for Adison's first birthday party - brought forward a month so that we could meet all Alison's friends from the various baby circles she belongs to. The birthday cake was a sandcastle cake made by our clever daughter.
The birthday girl with her Grandpa Woodall.
It was a pool party and the food was simple but just right for a hot day and all the older children swam and the babies had two paddling pools to enjoy.
Some escaped the heat and joined Alison to open presents in the sitting room.
And at the end of a perfect day, Adison and Grandpa relaxed together. The older stepchildren had swimming lessons each day and a swimming gala while we were over there which was wonderfully organised. They both improved over the weeks and really enjoyed it.
But Nicolas was less than impressed! Life continues to gallop on here at Cote Bank now that we are back and the spare time I thought I'd have when I gave up B&B has been filled very quickly and my blog has been one of the things to suffer. It is raining - again! Where did the red hot summer they promised us go to?
But spring was lovely! And while we were away in June it was very good weather.
How I love spring when the blossom breaks out and all the trees green up overnight.
My azaleas continue to thrive and brighten up the footpath each spring. Spring this year was clear and sunny and I don't remember any rain in the 6 weeks of lambing which helped the lambs to thrive.
With all the rain we get these days, the rockery we made in 2000 has filled in so well that I am having to hack bits of it back ruthlessly - Nic hates gardening - says it is cruel to kill off the prolific plants just when they are doing their best!
The next photos are a bit out of sequence but I can't struggle to get them to the start of the blog!
With no B&B guests arriving on Good Friday I could walk up Eccles Pike for the Easter service which is held at the specially erected cross on the summit. It was a misty,drizzly day so the view over to Cote Bank was obscured - perhaps it did rain during lambing but only very seldom!
It is a Churches Together service and we met friends from all the local churches as we combine now for bible study and many other events - a far cry from the 1700s when the C of E's tried to knock down the work of the builders of the Chinley Independent Chapel and the Wesleys were hounded around the area and were very unwelcome.
Our young families' horses continue to give much pleasure and Miracle and Magic are nice and easy to catch and shoe - here the farrier is hard at work. It is wonderful to see the old traditional skills continued.
Spring brought a plague of jackdaws who made nests in every single chimney not capped and even in the supposedly birdproof H pots. Two squabbling birds even fell down the old blocked up flue behind our bed on the gable end visible in this picture and we had the awful sound of them squawking and dying behind our heads with no way of liberating them.One got all the way down into our best sitting room but mercifully took its soot-laden self over to the window where Nic manfully caught it up in a sheet and dispatched it.
At vast expense a team of fantastic men came and removed all the nests that had totally blocked every chimney in the house and cottages and capped them all.My heart was in my mouth while they scaled our very high roof to work - but then I get dizzy 5 foot off the ground on a ladder.
To each his own skills!
I had the last laugh as one persistant freeloading jackdaw came back soon after with a twig in its mouth and you can almost see the annoyance in this picture as it surveys the blocked off chimney pot!
Then we had lambing time and very successful it was too with only 3 orphans to care for and a willing helper to keep her Grandpa company - seems only yesterday that Alison and Will were on lamb bottling duty!
And with no B&B to keep the house immaculate for, I took to the vegetable patch instead, aided by my grand daughter who is as keen a gardener as me and drives me on by pointing out things that need to be done!
Next year we will grow more as last nights meal of homegrown lamb with the mint sauce, courgettes, carrots and potaotes all coming out of the garden - well not the lamb! was followed by homegrown raspberries and blackcurrant and apple crumble. It tastes so much better when you've picked the things fresh and all the digging keeps me very fit!
The rest of the photos for this blog refused to load so the blog and I are tired! I promise not to leave it so long next time.
The three orphan lambs have done well and are in a nice little croft close by for ease of feeding and care.
A huge sycamore tree demolished this wall and it will have to be built up, but at present Nic is busy coping with the dreaded Himalayan Balsam that has taken root in one field - and with shearing by hand three naughty sheep who evaded the round up for shearing. The saying "first catch your sheep" is very true - we gave up after over an hour of fruitless chasing around the fields after them.
The shearing went very well this year thanks to a very quick and efficient local shearer - teabreaks like this were few and far between.
Isn't the view over the farmstead beautiful? The house and cottages are on the right sheltered by the hill. We now have a badger set on the bank to the left. Not a welcome addition as there is so much TB in the local badgers and farms around us with cattle are in quarantine and unable to sell cattle. 
We are blessed with a wonderful Mountain rescue team in the Peak District aided when needed by helicopter support. This is actually a rock climbing friend of ours who was lifted off the Welsh hills by their rescue services - his first accident in many years of safe climbing - a badly sprained ankle was luckily the result and nothing more serious.
The first week of July is always Buxworth Wells Dressing week and we opened St James' Church in Buxworth and served delicious homemede cakes to many visitors who came to see the two wells at the church and pub. Next year the church might try their hand at a well dressing board ourselves to be placed outside the church!
The flowers were kept simple this year with no theme as in past years but the church looked lovely.
We will be re-painting it at long last in August as it has looked very sad and neglected. 
Its a very friendly church built in the 1870s with money raised by the locals and built using labour given free by the workers in Bugsworth Lime works.
Another excitement was the arrival of Lola, a lively and adorable Puggle - a cross between a pug and a beagle. Her proud owner with her. 
Our old collie Jess is not too sure what to make of this new baby.
Also Jess at 11 has been in the wars and cut her back foot very badly on the mowing machine while "helping" Nic cut thistles. She is deaf now and was running behind the machine instead of in front, so must have misjudged her run. She has been to and fro to the local vets for 3 weeks at vast cost but the paw has been saved with only the loss of the 2 front digits and she is getting around very happily with a slight limp.