It doesn't seem a week since all the drama with my ear, but it must be as I've just had the last of the antibiotics the clinic gave me. It's not cleared up yet, I still have some issues with balance and nausea and there's a lot of pressure in it, but it's calmed down a lot.

So much so that we decided to test it out with a day trip today. Both of us remember visiting Bekonscot Model Village as children, but neither of us have been back since. It's not too far from home, so we went.

There were far too many children running around and cannoning off your shins for comfort if your sense of balance is a bit dodgy, but apart from that it was rather wonderful.