It has been a pleasant sunny day, yet again, with a maximum of nineteen degrees Celsius. This afternoon one of Tiki’s workmates was losing his patience because he had asked thrice, over the public-address system, for a Mr. Ferrett to come to the office. I didn’t help matters when I volunteered: “Perhaps he’s out chasing a rabbit!”
“Flashez” screened at 5.30 p.m.; 6.00 (and also on Channel Two), “Wild, Wild World Of Animals” looks at the chimpanzee; 7.00, “Willesee”; and, at 8.30, a new “Benny Hill Show”.
More than 13,000 people have fought to see Elvis’s body, for just ten seconds, as it lay in a huge copper-lined coffin. The body was dressed in a white suit, light blue shirt and silver tie. President Carter said today that Elvis was unique and irreplaceable.
Elvis’s mother died on the 14th of August, in 1958. He adored her and died within two days of her obit – on the 16th August (American time).
The No.1 song at the moment, in Sydney, is “Ain’t Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)” by Joe Tex.