The last time I was here was when I was first
started dating Chris. This was more than a decade ago. Ten years of marriage later, taking our kids round was more special than I expected.
hopping back on his pony, until he saw his hand.
Chris said “Oh **** my wrist is
broken” and the doctor in the house was summoned over (Victor). His specialty is in ophthalmology but you didn’t have to be in orthopedics to be able to see that it was clearly broken. His wrist was snaking in an uncomfortable S-shape and the pain was gradually starting to kick in. Sporting as ever, Chris didn’t want to hold up the tournament, and Stuart our friend travelling with us who had already fi nished his match as well as three quarters of a bottle of wine, was called on to play the remaining 3 and a half chukkas left of Chris’ match, while I accompanied him to Addenbrookes Hospital. The girl who drove us there was trying to think up what stories we could tell to move him up the Triage list. She said “why don’t you say the horse sat on him, so they would see him fi rst, in case he has internal injuries.” A broken wrist may not count as life-threatening if there was a queue at A&E. The hospital staff and doctors
however were all excellent, and we didn’t have to lie to make sure he got seen. Turns out it was a clean break of his ulnar, which then got dislodged, causing the unsightly S-bend in his wrist. After the X-rays, the doctors were sure he would need surgery, but after much pleading and a successful external reduction, they let Chris go home to his hotel. I looked down at my own wrist and remembered the huge bruising on my wrist from a hard ride- off from another player the day before, and I thought, “What is it with wrist injuries in this family?” Back at the hotel I checked the feng shui Flying Star charts and saw the number 5 had fl own to the East, a sector representing the limbs and joints. Our house at home faces East, and we had spent the whole of the fi rst half of the year dealing with
26 FENGSHUIWORLD | JULY / AUGUST 2013
the number 3 quarrelsome star which has settled there this year. Our cures for the number 3 star, which had been bringing all kinds of problems involving disputes, were fi ercely red items including a huge red carpet and nine big boulders painted a fi ery red. T is was to boost Fire energy, which would keep the Wood energy of the #3 star under control. What we didn’t notice as we fl ew off on holiday was that the number 5 misfortune star had flown there this month. T e number 5 is an Earth star, and all the “cures” for the number 3 (which worked), were now fuelling the fearsome number 5! Chris was replaying the
incident over and over in his mind, wondering what made him take to the fi eld when he was awash with the most ominous feelings as he mounted his horse. We could not change what happened, but called home at the earliest opportunity to instal l
large f ive
should be thankful! Chris continued on the week
in some discomfort with his humongous full-arm cast, but the rest of us carried on the holiday pretty much as if nothing had happened. Chris made it to the fi eld again, trying to learn to hit polo balls with his uninjured left hand, while we went on to win the Hyde Pacifi c Tournament we were playing in.
element pagodas and other metallic cures to press down on the unfortunate eff ects the Five Yellow was causing us so many miles away. Feng shui tip – don’t take your feng shui for granted, even when you’ve been diligent at the start of the year! T e time dimension can have a big impact if you get unlucky, so if you know you are going to be putting yourself at risk, check your Flying Stars each month! Feng shui tip number two – do not go against your instincts. If you have a bad feeling, listen to your gut feel. Chris is still kicking himself that he did not. Nevertheless, it was the best break you could get if you are going to break something – did not involve the joints, ligaments or arteries. So we
5 element Pagoda
BATTLING NOSTALGIA I never thought I would remember Cambridge as fondly
as I did whilst on this trip. I have kept in touch with many of my friends from there, meeting up with them in diff erent parts of the world each time our paths happened to cross, but never actually in Cambridge. T e last time I was here was when I fi rst started dating Chris. T is was more than a decade ago. Ten years of marriage later, taking our kids round was more special than I expected, and watching them pick out their Offi cial University merchandise and their “When I Grow Up I Wanna Go To Cambridge” tee-shirts, it wasn’t that I missed being here as a student, but more an earnest yearning for one, or maybe both of our kids to pick Cambridge, and then make it here, so we can come back to visit as proud parents.
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