Explosion!

Yesterday just before lunch we adults were all in the kitchen and the children were playing in the garden. Suddenly we heard a loud bang coming from outside. Debbie and I sped outside calling the children; Angus and Amanda were short on our heels.

We found the children playing quietly on the lawn so I ran around the front of the house to my neighbour to see if she was OK. Her garage was empty so she was probably visiting her children on the farm.

Then Angus remembered that he had been pumping up his niece’s bicycle tyre. We all ran to the garage and sure enough, there was my granddaughter’s bicycle with a huge tear in the rear tyre.

It took about ten minutes for our heartbeats to subside...