Can we ride it? Yes we can!

There's no denying the lads got their money's worth out of the Scoop ride at Fort Kinnaird. George's ride, strictly speaking, to make up for Matt and Andy getting Pokemon cards.

"Stop being such a vandal," I said to Andy at one point, as he stomped a bit too heavily on poor old Scoop. "I can't be a vandal," he said with great authority. "Vandals are teenagers."

We'd just come from getting some bits and pieces at Borders, where the lads had all got loaded up on cake. No, not this cake. Just the normal, sugar-filled kind.