23 November 1961.  We completed the purchase of 55 Lady Lane.  This was a bigger, detached, house, but needed a lot of work before we could move in.  We added an extension, which gave us a bigger kitchen and an extra bedroom.  In those days you could draw up plans and make an application for planning permission without all the bureaucracy of today!  But it must have been hard for Joyce with a six-month old baby!  We were very grateful  that our friends Robin and Rita Catlin allowed us to stay with them until the work was more or less completed.