decided to go on this ride after 2PM. Last month it would have been nearly dark at that stage but now you are OK till 6PM or after . At the end of the month the hour will be going on or off or whatever. When I hit Portmarnock I decided to go to left to Kinsealy and to Malahide from there . A new way to go . So I decided to have yet another cuppa , remembering that I had a cuppa in Ranelagh so I am rather liquified. The light wind was with me on the way but on the way back it , to me , had become a gale , and a cold one at that . I was very tired and I had to stop before I came to Clontarf and of course it seemed much longer going back that going there . I suppose really the truth is that I am not very fit because of time of year and also Jennifer's condition , which is awful for her , and she seems to be getting no better . It really must be very upsetting for her . It is going on for five weeks now and it is soul destroying . I had said to Jennifer that I would prepare the dinner when I came home but thank God that was done and all I had to do was a small bit . At least now she has a bit of an appetite . Against that for the past few weeks all she has been having for her lunch is a smakk croissant - not much . The cycle itself was only just over 50KM and I was very tired and it was not over hills . It was , in comparison to other cycles , not a particularly long cycle , so maybe I am getting old , and too much chocolateitais , a very common condition for me . Apart from that a good cycle .