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@Dammit
Hah, I had four punctures- pinch flatted each wheel, then the tubes I put in both failed, which was rather annoying.
I'd previously had an ok experience with the Park Tools patches, but I am never, ever using them again.
Oddly both pinch flats happened with ~90 psi in the tyres, once both were down to the ~65 psi that my little pump was happy with I had no more flats, and my fillings stopped their headlong charge out of my teeth over the cobbles.
I came to the conclusion that no matter that the side of the road could be smoother the risk of punctures outweighed the convenience, and that the crown of the road was the place you had to be. The side of the road often dropped away into an epic pothole, or had smooth dirt with an abrupt very, very sharp edged cobble turned so it hit the wheel square on.
I wore my watch, which I thought nothing of- until about ~90 miles in, when I realised that it had hammered on the back of my wrist hard enough to bruise the flesh underneath.