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However , by morning said appendix had returned to hibernation ( though it did re-awaken a few times during the year at equally inopportune moments ) . On our second , family , visit the girls were duly awed by his size , and he by their maturity . 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 ! She got a little temp work , but spent a lot of time alone in the house during the day . Pippa and John 's children - - all four of them ! ) flagellation , and sealed parcels opened years after his death contained naughty pictures , exhibits , and even home-made whips , all on display for the curious . Sarah and Alex are university lecturers in English literature and philosophy , and between them they created a tongue-in-cheek eyewitness account of that eventful day which is so compelling that we have appended it to this letter . Peter is tall , but he is dwarfed by all the others , so our house was pretty full . The traffic instantly backed up for miles ; the tunnel was quickly closed to all traffic ( both directions ) ; an emergency vehicle roared down towards them on the wrong side of the road and gave them a nerve-wracking bumper-to-bumper push , accelerating to 50 mph , out of the tunnel . Between the five of them they could manage four recorders , three viols , a flute , a piano and a harpsichord : the combinations were many and varied . Security is excellent , not only guarding against unwanted visitors but also checking that boats remain properly moored and do n't sink ! Most people at Google wore elaborate costumes - - one gay youth had a ball dressing up as a very attractive-looking housemaid , and changed his wig several times during the course of the ( working ! We decide it 's all because Alex 's hat got caught around Prada 's keel . The future of computing is being determined by cappuccino-drinking white males between 25 and 30 - - as culturally homogenous a group as you 'll ever meet . ) concerts - - fortunately they fell between trips . Kirsten insisted on expanding our small-town minds by taking us to watch - - no , experience - - it . By a strange twist of fate a partner in our doctor 's practice , a family friend , was at Great Barrier Island on her own family 's boat , and Ian was tested on arrival , diagnosed not with plain old seasickness but with a grumbling appendix , and put to bed on the hospital ship ( the doctor 's boat ) following a preliminary radio call to the marine emergency centre in case a helicopter had to be summoned during the night . The next morning was nice enough to tempt us into a circumnavigation of Waiheke , but once we were committed to this plan the wind increased to 25 knots with big gusts , and we had to tack against it all day . No , not the dinghy bumping against the side , the keel on a freak rock ( it was low water ) . Sometimes Nikki 's parents ca n't really understand what the distinction is between " going out " and not " going out " - - and Nikki tells us we're in good company ; her friends ca n't understand either . And one of her friends committed suicide in Wellington during the year . Late in February a seasoned , well-practiced , race-hardened , swashbuckling , supremely confident Italian team began its series against little ol ' New Zealand , who had not yet sailed a single race .