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I spent the weekend in Exeter, which is an interesting town.

The hotel I stayed in is a converted eye infirmary dating back to Victorian times. There are a couple of other eye clinics in the town, and I am wondering if Exeter is the blind person's equivalent of the elephants' graveyard.

"Dragged ever onward by a loyal labrador, the occularly dysfunctional can find refuge in the ancient City of Exeter, and allow their blind gaze to fall on the beautiful cathedral which was founded in 1050."

After two exceptionally strong cocktails on Saturday night I concluded that it wasn't that the blind came to Exeter but that the perfectly sighted came here then lost their sight. Not that I am perfectly sighted, but I don't usually need guiding to the dinner table.

We also visited Bickleigh to see the bridge that was supposedly the inspiration for Simon & Garfunkel to write 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'. The water wasn't too troubled, but maybe it is carrying its worries well.