Time of Transition
March 20, 2007
This is rather an unsettled period at present. The sale of our holiday chalets was supposed to go through last Friday, but the buyer did not stump up the money and has broken the contract, leaving us in a bit of a pickle. I have never known this happen before, for a buyer to break a legally binding contract. What happens next? I don't know.
We're renting a flat here in Edinburgh till the end of June. I'm very happy in this city. I love the buzz of life which I feel each morning when I walk my dog in Holyrood Park.
I've just got back from my t'ai chi class. We are learning the Yang style long form, and I've been doing it since September. We did quite a hard bit tonight, called Needle at Sea Bottom. It's something to do with a dragon throwing his huge needle into the Yangtse river to calm the turbulent waters.
I went home to our house on Mull last week for a dental appointment and to take final electricity readings at the chalets. While I was there I tried practising the form in the sitting room. I'd never done it there before and so didn't know where to start. First of all I got as far as the hall, amidst all the packed boxes, before I had to stop. So I started off at the other side of the room and backed into the sofa.
Peter, our teacher, is right about practising outside too. I was showing Olly how far I had got when we were walking over the meadows and I got completely disorientated because there weren't any walls. In China whole groups of people do the form outside in parks, don't they, so I suppose you soon get used to it.