Went to use my wheel-barrow last week and found that I had a puncture.
Dropped the wheel out and found it had an inner-tube, and of course, I had no puncture repair kit.
I’ve never had one for years and wondered if they still made them.

We were over at Silverlink and I called into the Halford’s unit.

The bike department is about the size of a football field, with every shape and size of bike.
I eventually found my little repair kit, and it looked just like I remembered it, a long thin box with patches and an adhesive tube, but now it’s made of plastic and a lot dearer.

When I took it to the pay-point, which is a sort of repair centre. The guys behind the counter were repairing all these super looking bikes with their fancy gear changers and disc-brakes.

“Have you ever repaired an inner-tube puncture before?”, this young guy asked.
“Son, I was repairing punctures over 70 years ago”, I replied.

“Have you ever repaired an inner-tube puncture without a repair kit?”, I asked him.
He looked at me as if I was mad.

I bet Allan knows the trick we used as kids to get us home.