First bike ride of the year…nice pedal up the lochside to the Cashel Forest Easter event…

THE kids have us up at 6am…and a few moments after the temperature alarm goes off to tell me the smoker needs some attention.

I’d expected to be woken a few times in the night but I seem to have done a fairly good job at stabilising the temperature in the pit.

There’s an Easter event up at Cashel Forest and Margaret takes the kids up…I hang out at home until the pork butt is ready, take it out the smoker and put in faux cambro to stay warm then cycle up to Cashel. My first bike ride of the year.

My brakes are deffo pretty dodgy and the bike needs a good service, but I enjoy the ride nonetheless.

We’re home in good time for Catriona and Will arriving and we enjoy an afternoon in the garden eating pulled pork sliders and chatting.

After they head off I fall asleep on the couch for nearly three hours!

Matty’s staying tonight as well and we have some more pulled pork then watch our pal Bill’s live-stream from Florida.