The main sitting room had a very efficient heater which was sufficient for the whole house. Paul Sawkins is in the photo.

Moving in the furniture. Nothing was damaged after the long journey.

I had never seen soil so bare as that in Torrens when we moved there. The adjoining house, which stayed empty for some time, never grew anything until somebody started the garden.

The view over the back fence. Roger and Justine's house was the first occupied house in Torrens.

Looking down the road towards the Woden Centre.

We started with (free) trees from the Canberra nursery and laid out the back garden as the adjoining houses became occupied.

Growing grass was not easy in the dry climate, and the garden was slow to establish.

After Justine and Roger Sawkins left the long front yard became partly respectable and the trees grew.