[This is] probably late 1955 (he gave me away at our marriage [on] 29/1/1955) after dad died in November 1954. Geoff failed a year [at university] so he graduated with Peter in 1956. He lost his self-confidence more easily than I.

Geoff received a 'cadetship' with GE and went to England for two years, at Manchester I think. This was early days on a trip to London in the famous Pigeon Square. In his absence, Bea bought a house in Armidale (next [to] Malvern) whose rear drive, cobbled for the night cart, backed onto Inverness Avenue where Reba lived.