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You start by trying to keep your fingers clean by sandwiching chunks of food between bread , but it 's hopeless . Unfortunately our baggage was irretrievable and we had only the clothes we stood up in ( not much , and dirty ) , so we spent the day just lounging around , sort of recovering from jetlag in advance . So she decided to return . Overseas for fifteen months , she had a great time in Calgary ( we had left her there at the beginning of her trip on returning to New Zealand ourselves ) , London , where she lived in a house in Ealing with fifteen Kiwis , visited Ian 's family in Northern Ireland and Pam 's brother near Toulouse , and then returned to Calgary - - where ( as we reported last year ) she got her old job back , working in a health club , and seemed to be very happy . Gulf - - near Maraetai , and just across from Waiheke island , if you have a map handy . She still goes to lessons and has learned many new pieces - - in fact , she can play almost any song by Andrew Lloyd Webber that you care to name . Nikki , given the choice between cruising around the Island with her parents or painting 50 m of picket fence along our front boundary , chose the latter . She graduated with a BSocSci in anthropology , philosophy being her supporting subject . And they went black-water rafting near the Waitomo caves . " Christmas " letter out - - though Christmas is long past - - so that you 'll know we're still alive . The house is in an old residential area close to downtown Calgary , so we experienced inner city living for a short while . Between such rarefied events there was plenty of walking and sampling of local pubs and restaurants . Indeed , one child had exceeded his expected lifespan so there was the real possibility that he might die any day . There was plenty of wine for us in the interval so the second half was a bit ropy - - but , fortunately , so was the audience by that time . We saved them from the cat and the dog . It was a bit of a shock ; in fact Ian arrived back early one morning from a three-week North American trip to learn that she was moving out at lunchtime . The other three members also play as a trio , but they are keen for Pam to join in and travel every month to Te Kauwhata , halfway between Hamilton and Auckland , to meet her and practise together in a community hall that they rent for the princely sum of $ 5 for the whole afternoon . She drove two close friends and a girl visiting from Scotland up north for a weekend of relaxation . We found a back-country lodge near Yoho park that specializes in pandering to this kind of loony whim , and managed to persuade six foolhardy friends to join us for the three-day adventure . ) concerts - - fortunately they fell between trips . Anna did n't even clap eyes on the boat for the first ten months ; however she has recently enjoyed a couple of day trips and is ready for more . Ian 's nephew Peter and five other medical students from Belfast came to stay with us for a few days on their way back from work experience in Sydney ; our pool table still has n't quite cooled down from all those hot shots . We see the starting area out near Whangaparoa and can just make out two grey triangles moving like shark fins above the bumpy line of smaller craft .