Biking...

Today cooked apple crumble tart, a tomato fondue, and managed, somehow, to keep down my breakfast and joint a chicken! Fed the hens for duty then we had Rachel demonstrate for the first time. She made masses of Indian and Middle Eastern food, so so so good. Then to work that off we went for a bike ride - opting out of the viewing of the DVD 'Fowl'. Returned to Garryvoe beach for the sunset....




And instead of going back via the village we decided to test out our bikes' offroading capabilities and cycled along the sand....

Seemed like a good idea at the time until Rosie's bike broke, her bike unfortunately being borrowed, without permission, from one of the women in another of the houses. Wasn't just a fallen off chain either, but a fully bent chain holder mangled into the spokes of the back wheel of the bike! ....the culprit being a large lump of sand. Anyway, a kindly old Irish couple stopped to help us, and the husband Rory (all the best people here are called Rory) managed to get it back into a rideable state although not without getting covered in oil....

They were so cute! Anyway, in the end and despite the hysterics we managed to cycle back, hose off the repaired but sandy bike and replace it without detection! Happy days.