I thought that it might be as long as 5 years before we would be able to move from Melbourne to Canberra. Initially, therefore, we moved into the house of my wartime friend, pathologist Alan Jackson, who was going with his wife Mavis on his overseas trip, as arranged by Bill Keogh. They lived in a very nice house in 4 Turnbull Avenue, Toorak, close to a railway station. Bobbie looked after their three children while I went to the Hall Institute each day. Later we looked after the three Burnet children in their house at 10 Belmont Avenue, Kew, while Mac and Linda spent nine months in England. Meanwhile, we looked for and bought a house in Blackburn, then on the outskirts of Melbourne but near the railway station, although I usually drove to work.