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Nikki felt that it was advantageous from a studying point of view not to be living at home , because all her storybooks were elsewhere and there was nothing to do but work ! You need one hand to hold on ( otherwise you're thrown immediately onto the floor ) , one to hold the cup ( it 's quite impossible to put it down ) , and a third for the kettle , a dangerous bomb full of evil boiling water and the nearest doctor eight days away . For Ian , musical life resumed when we returned after six months in the doldrums in Calgary . But that may have been the Titanic 's last trip , for rumor has it that it spent the remainder of the winter marooned on an iceberg in a car park in southern Calgary . We were duly amazed by the Phantom of the Opera , and afterwards we were blown away by martinis in the Redwood Room of the Clift Hotel - - which , following a tip-off by an ex-Californian with whom Ian played jazz in Hamilton , is now a must on every visit to San Francisco .