I bought a new bike. It's one of them modern "adventure/gravel/all-purpose" bikes they're talking about. It's steel (because Steel is Real apparently) and it's awesome. That is all.
On a beautiful day, Louis and I rode out to - and then over - the Forth Road Bridge, and then did a wee loop around Inverkeithing and the Fife Coastal Path before returning home. An epic ride of 20 miles or so, recorded for posterity here.
We finally deflated the pool in anticipation of the end of the summer holidays. The grass may have suffered a little in the meantime. What you don't get from the picture is the extraordinary smell of rotting vegetation that emerged...