Month: June 2011

In the final of the Gillette Cup, on ABC TV, Channel Two, from the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Victoria scored 164. In reply, Western Australia had collapsed to be 7-73, at 5.10 p.m., due to some excellent bowling from Alan Hurst and Max “Tangles” Walker, yet fought back to win a ‘cliff-hanger’ by taking its score to 9-165 (Craig Serjeant 38 and Mick Malone 47 n.o.) at 6.55 p.m.

At half past seven, Ian Chappell, a former captain of Australia at cricket and now retired from the game, is this evening’s guest on “This Is Your Life”, on Channel Seven.

We shopped at the Half Case store on Parraweena Road at Taren Point. At 8.00 p.m., on Channel Two, the “Big Country” series is looking at ‘The Taipan Man’: Ram Chandra. This was followed at half past eight, on Channel Seven, by the introductory two-hour episode of “Rich Man, Poor Man: Book 2”.

The British comedy series, “Love Thy Neighbour”, is on Channel Seven from 8.00 p.m. It was formerly screened on Channel Two. It stars Jack Smethurst as the bigoted Eddie Booth, and Rudolph Walker as his coloured neighbour, Bill Reynolds.

Following on from the film, “The Invisible Boy”, from 1957 — in which Richard Eyer portrays a boy whom, as the film’s title suggests, is made invisible by a computer whose aim is to take over the world — on Channel Seven, an authority on films, Bill Collins, introduces an interview he conducted with British actor, Michael York, on the set of the film, “Logan’s Run”.

At 5.00 p.m., we watched Chuck “The Rifleman” Connors host an episode of the series, “Thrillseekers”, which includes a man who prepares himself to be a ‘human bomb’ inside a coffin. Although he claims to be knocked out each time he performs the stunt, he has executed it three hundred times in four years.

We shopped for our groceries at the store, Jewel, in Caringbah. I later exchanged a ten dollar note for smaller denominations at the Rural Bank, in Engadine.

Bill Collins’ interview today is with James Herriot, the veterinary surgeon portrayed in “It Shouldn’t Happen To A Vet”, in which his character is played by John “Please Sir” Alderton. James is sixty years of age, although he does not look it, and is the author of six books. He appears to be an extremely nice chap.

The news at 6.30 p.m., on Channel Seven, is read by Roger Climpson. There is unrest in Madrid.

At half past eight, on Channel Two, in the British comedy series, “Bless this House”, Sidney Abbott, played by the late Sid James, his wife and son take it upon themselves to fast in order to raise money for charity.

According to today’s copy of “The Sun” newspaper, a teacher, John Weissel, of Leeton, who died from a heart attack, at the age of thirty-three, two weeks ago, has had one hundred and eight dollars withdrawn from pay owed to him by the Department of Education in New South Wales.

A two-bedroom unit on the top floor of a building on Chuter Avenue, in Ramsgate, is for sale at $28,150. Around on Alfred Street and only a block from the beach, a two-storey townhouse is for sale with an asking price of $34,000.

A nice unit on Curtis Place, in Caringbah, but right next to the railway line, is for sale at $30,000. We stopped to look at new units and townhouses at 28 Port Hacking Road, Sylvania. Although they look nice inside, the road is a busy one and their exterior reminds me of the grey stone one sees so frequently used as a building material at Mount Gambier, in South Australia.

At McDonald’s, in Fairlight, a fillet ‘o fish burger cost seventy-five cents, a chocolate thickshake forty-five cents and chicken and chips, one dollar and forty-five.

It is twenty-eight degrees Celsius at 4.45 p.m.

A three-bedroom fibro house on Raleigh Street, in Caringbah, with a large flat backyard is for sale at $37,000. Another similar house on the same street: $34,500. Yet another, run-down but on a large block of land, in Carrington Street, near The Boulevarde; $34,000. A two-bedroom fibro house on Raglan Road, in Miranda, has an asking price of $36,950.

Tiki informed me that her nose was running, to which I jocularly quipped, “It’s probably trying to get away from your face!”

Today is a public holiday to mark Australia Day. Two large bottles of dry ginger ale cost eighty-four cents.

At noon, on Channel Nine, actor Tim “McHale’s Navy” Conway’s character endeavours to break the world’s roller-skating endurance record of one hundred and forty-seven hours, in the film, “Roll Freddie, Roll”, from 1974. Television series screening today include: “Gidget” (5.00 p.m., Channel Seven), “Good Times” (7.30 p.m., Channel Seven), “Charlie’s Angels” (Channel Nine) and the British police drama, “The Sweeney” (10.00 p.m., Channel Seven), which stars Dennis Waterman and John Thaw.