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In November she spent a week at Leadership Camp , taking part in some exciting activities - - falling out of a whitewater raft and being pulled down rapids underneath it , enthusiastically playing the Ultimate Game , a team-based war game with guns and paint bullets in which you try to capture the other team 's flag , and listening to some interesting lectures about leadership and leadership styles . He has no engine ( that 's where he stores the potatoes ) . In November Ian went to Lubeck , Germany , for a conference , then to London to give a seminar and a one-day workshop at University College , London , then back home to N. Ireland for a week to see how his Mum was getting on ( just fine ! Our New Year 's outing a year earlier had been foiled by a recalcitrant engine ( to which you owe our Christmas letter two years ago , and , as it happens , this one too ) . Talking on the phone to someone from the health club she had worked at in Calgary , she heard that her replacement was about to be fired and they wanted her back . And Pam followed Ian a couple of days later , taking the two-hour commercial motorized catamaran trip to join him at Port Fitzroy on Great Barrier . He gave invited talks , on different topics , at both conferences . ) Whereas Ian 's musical activities slowed down when he came to Calgary - - unfortunately rehearsals of the University Symphonic Band , in which he played before , clashed with the course he was teaching , and all he had going were a few very enjoyable jazz sessions with an ex-student who plays wonderful piano - - Pam 's accelerated . Once the policeman had ascertained exactly where we lived , she managed to persuade him to let her through - - though he enigmatically advised her to lock all the doors , close the curtains , and not let anyone in . Cleverly painted figures on the walls have eyes ( and bodies , and even feet ) that follow you as you walk past . First to a conference in Sydney , prior to which he spent a lovely weekend in Manly at Anna 's flat . On the way he stopped in San Francisco ( highlight : cycling across the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito on the other side , returning by ferry ) and Belfast . The jovial constable says the two Cup yachts are a bit bigger and faster than us ; we smile pleasantly , go about , smile pleasantly , and the nice policeman , just to be sure we had n't missed his joke , says again that some yachts are bigger and faster than us .