Today Murphy's law was fully operative... It started in the morning, one of our smoke alarms was beeping. It turned out that, although it is connected to the power in our house, it needed a new (back-up) battery.
We decided we would go biking to a birdpark 16 kilometres (10 miles) away, but when hubby prepared the bikes he saw that the canvas was shining through or the rear wheel of our oldest. So we first went to a bike shop. He didn't have the tire we needed, so he would order it and he said that we could still go to the birdpark by bike.
So off we went :-).
When we had cycled for a couple of miles we stopped to drink some water. When I got back on my bike again it suddenly had a flat tire. We had nothing to fix it with. Two women passed us and then they came back. One of the women asked if we had a bike repair kit and when we said we didn't she gave her kit to us and just drove of, that was so kind!
Elliott picked up the pieces of the tire valve and then he dropped the little ring, we searched for 10 minutes, but the little ring was nowhere to be found.
We then decided I would cycle home and hope that my tire would still be okay when I would get there. I would then take my car and drive to the birdpark by car. Halfway on my way home hubby called that Elliott had a flat tire now...a nail went in! Talking about Murphy's law....
Eventually Elliott's bike was repaired by a bike shop in the village where they were and when I got there we decided it was too late to still go to the birdpark, but there was a village fest we attended which was also a lot of fun.
At nights we had friends over, we had a great time with them and all in all we mostly laughed through it all...what else could we do :-).
Dutchy
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