Disaster struck.  After my good meal at the Mai-Thai, I went down with the flu.  No coincidence there,  I was feeling a cold coming on that evening.  I even took a day off when out on site, spending the day in bed at the hotel.  Lovely fruit bowl to see me through the day. Grapes, strawberries, figs, oranges, banana and apples. The other days I worked, but felt really terrible by the end of each day.  The flight back home on Friday was purgatory, despite leaving on time and arriving very early I was longing for it to finish, except for the excruciating pain on my ear drums.

The next week I took off from work.  There was no way I was flying back up to Scotland the way I was feeling.  Which was really a pit as I missed out on my fifth Edinburgh fringe festival.