Was supposed to be a longer ride out to Milfield with coffee at Etal and a longer ride home, around 30 in total but things do conspire against one! After 2.5 miles I got a puncture, no problem as I carry spare tubes. checked the tyre for thorns etc couldn’t see anything so fitted another tube, another 4 miles and it went agin, no burst just went down like a slow puncture does! Fitted another tube and it stayed up for another half a mile then lost all its air again, pumped it up as only three mile to coffee and if I ride fast! Well it stayed up even through coffee and after for another 3 miles and that’s when we found the hole in the tyre! Covered by a sticker which it had blown through and am now presuming the tube would be ok till it expanded through the hole and burst, Put a patch on the hole in the tyre and tried to patch the tube but the scabs self adhesion had gone bad, tried a pals patches but they were too big for my narrow (18/25) tubes and wouldn’t stick properly, borrowed a tube to get me home which it did, luckily. What a day! 16 miles