Ena Lemmon and the mandali accompanied Baba as they were driven to the homes of: Elsie M. Smart, 29 Barkly Street, Ringwood; Stan and Clarice Adams, 12 Jellicoe Street, Box Hill; John and Betty Burston, 40 William Street, Mount Waverley; John and Joan Bruford, 335 Wattletree Road, East Malvern; Oswald and Betty Hall, 9 Kerrie Crescent, Eltham.
The Brufords' residence in East Malvern had been a major venue for meetings of the Sufi Society and also for many of the first Baba meetings in Victoria. Baba took Ena's hand as they walked from the car up to the Brufords' house. At that moment, Ena felt as if she were in heaven!
It was not known beforehand that when Baba came to Melbourne he would be making house visits. As the Brufords left Melbourne in a hurry to meet Baba in Sydney, and were returning home just before Baba's visit, they had very little time to get everything tidy.
When Baba saw how neat everything appeared to be in the teenage boy's (Bernard's) room, Baba asked with a twinkle, "Is it always like this?"
"No!" was Bernard's firm but honest reply. In the living room, Baba tossed a ball back and forth to the family.
The first room on the left as one entered the house was John Bruford's workroom. In it was all his electronic gear, woodwork, metalwork and art work — plus the broken vacuum cleaner and everything else that might get fixed one day. Wood shavings had accumulated on the floor; bits of molten solder were embedded in what was once a carpet. The room had rarely if ever been cleaned and its door was always shut. No one outside the family ever ventured inside.
Baba pointed to the door and asked, "And this room?"
John was embarrassed and commented wryly, "This is known as hell with your pants down!" Laughing, Baba went in anyway and was so happy — he was beaming!
The Adamses' home was another venue for early Baba meetings in Melbourne. Outside the porch of this house, Clarice Adams had drawn some Indian rangoli chalk designs (such markings are always present in Indian households on an auspicious day). Baba wanted to know who had sent the designs. Clarice said Katie Irani had given them to her when she was in Bombay.