When I wasn't worrying about how to stop the water breaching my bodily barriers, I was fretting about catching pond life in the miniature drag net that is a swimming costume on an ample bosom.
The horticultural interest at this one-and-a-half-acre tourist attraction is what lies between the six model villages: a miniature landscape of farms, fields, woods, lakes and rolling hills planted with more than 3,000 shrubs and trees.
Why not create an atmospheric, wintry scene of your own using model railway figures and miniature Christmas trees?
The trophies were miniature replicas of the cup first presented at the All England Club in 1887 for his run of wins between 1976 and 1980.
In miniature, Sajid Javid's approval of touts is part of the same ideology that sees every available inch of public life exploited for profit, every transaction monetised at every possible point, from energy to entertainment, often at the expense of those least able to afford the surcharges.
The larger, more traditional high-ceilinged "white cube" space in the rear has accommodated a ghostly slide projector installation from English artist Claire Harvey's "life in black and white" miniature world, plus more conventional sculpture and painting exhibitions from established artists such as Folkert de Jong and Sven Kroner.
In last year's production of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, she built a film studio in miniature: a sound stage, a cinema screen, a booth in which a foley artist created live sound effects, and a cabin in which an actor voiced the main character's fragmented thoughts.
After six months working on the script we ended up with a miniature about childhood.
In Gaiman's case, he's even been known to sketch out a rough miniature copy of an issue to guide the artist through its layout.
A further comic element is supplied by the antics of a Russian oil tanker, which is quite by coincidence shuffling back and forth uneasily just outside Swedish territorial waters in a position from which it might rescue, or have launched, a miniature submarine.
A Russian miniature submarine is being pursued by the miniature Swedish navy: 20 years of steady bipartisan cuts to Sweden's defence budget mean that there is no longer a single helicopter equipped for anti-submarine warfare, and many of the boats involved in the hunt are inflatable.
