 Giacometti died in 1966 and Rawsthorne in 1992; Bacon outlived Rawsthorne by a few months.Apart from visits to London and Paris, Africa, Greece and Australia, and a short period in Cambridge (1972-3), she lived in the cottage for forty years - half of her life.She raised geese, a nod to her interest in Konrad Lorenz, and became involved in the emergent environmentalist movement.