Me: “Is there gorse on my back?” Him: “nice shapely legs!” 🙈😱🤣

After a lovely 12 min seaswim and breakfast, it was bikes on the car and off to the nature reserve we had hiked around a week or so ago.

Before the ride,

Me: “I don’t feel like anything strenuous today, just relaxing.”

Him: “ok, just exploratory then, nice and relaxing!”

Half an hour into our ride: oops, that was a rather boggier path than expected! Result: off my bike in a deep puddle with both shoes and socks totally soaked (which they remained for the rest of the day BTW). 🥶😱🤬

An hour into our ride:

Me: “yikes, that hill nearly killed me”

Him: “that’s so good for your heart health!”😱🤔🙃

End of the ride, I got stuck in some high gorse. I removed most of the gorse from my arms and front, but...

Me: “is there any more gorse on my back?”

Him: “nice shapely legs!”....

an hour later I found some more gorse in my hair! Not sure whether to get cross at him or accept the compliment given to me by my husband of so many years....🙈😱🤣

End of the day:

Perfect weather ✅

beautiful new area explored ✅

28k mountainbike ride ✅

Feeling blessed ✅

Photo shows: the totally soaked shoes and socks, the beautiful old tree that came in handy as a shoe and sock drying rack...