Sometimes, it's almost right but slips away, like an
aerialist just missing the
trapeze bar and falling, spectacularly, to a net far below.
When the
trapeze teacher, Deborah Sanderson, an
aerialist who incidentally has performed in circuses from Bosnia to the Caribbean, auctioned an hour and a half private lesson at her base in Leeds, my hand instinctively flew up and I won the bid.