ABSTRACT
After looking round for some time we found one wh ich , w i t h about an acre of land , suited us very wel l . It had been the stables of the house next door wh ich i n its turn had or ig inal ly been a coaching i n n on the m a i n road to Newmarket , now only a cul-de-sac. T h e cottage was very nice and faced south, w i th a long garden of mixed flowers and fruit trees. W e later bought two other parcels o f land: a bu i ld ing plot opposite, where we put a garage, needed for our two cars; the or ig ina l garage was i n the house under my bedroom, wh ich consequently always smelt o f petrol fumes. T h e other piece was a long slice beside the garden, at a sl ightly higher level , w h i c h we hoped wou ld prevent us being overlooked. Marga re t was the gardener and l a id out a very attractive one. I jus t cut the hedges but we gradual ly e l iminated these as they caused so m u c h work and replaced them as we cou ld by br ick walls wh ich looked better and d i d not take the goodness from the soi l , as we l l as affording us some protection from the prevai l ing strong westerly winds . I s t i l l had my j o b lecturing at L o n d o n Univers i ty , so used to commute to L o n d o n from Tuesdays to Fr idays each week du r ing the winter months. I n 1963 Margare t took a sabbatical to go to I ran and I took over her classes on the Archaeology of Mesopo tamia and the Hi s to ry of Western A s i a at Cambr idge , wh ich I managed to combine w i t h m y j o b lectur ing for L o n d o n
Univers i ty , w h i c h meant I taught at C a m b r i d g e on M o n d a y s and Fr idays and the other days i n L o n d o n .
