We spent 3 years at Eddystone Point. Rietje stayed with us for a considerable time and also Beppie spent months with us until they established themselves in Launceston where Theo opened a pastry-cook business. This gave us the opportunity to get away from the Lighthouse and move to Launceston. We liked the life at the Lighthouse but we didn't want to send all the children away to boarding schools.

We took over a milk bar in Invermay Road and managed to stay there for 9 months with very unsatisfactory living quarters. Then Dad was fortunate enough to find a job with the PMG as it was then called, as a trainee technician.

From Invermay Road we moved to Rees Street where we managed to buy an old house for £ 1600 which we sold for the same price (luckily enough).

Our next place of residence was Ross Avenue
(£ 3,300). This was a much better house, the children had more room. This is also where our last child, Phillip, was born.