The Western Suburbs ‘Magpies’ defeated Canterbury-Bankstown by eight points to five, this afternoon.
We walked to restaurant, Brandys’, at Sylvania Waters, where Tiki embarrassingly told the waitress that I am on a diet, designed to lower my cholesterol. The manager appeared and obligingly said that he would do what he could.
As an entree I was served thinly sliced smoked salmon draped over a lettuce leaf, with a few capers spaced around it at intervals. Tiki, in the meantime enjoyed a prawn cocktail.
Tiki’s main course consisted of fried barramundi served with baked tomato and zucchini while mine was a dish which contained veal, accompanied by some lightly cooked tomato and zucchini.
Dessert, for me, was strawberries with passionfruit. Tiki, of course, fared far better as her pears, in ice-cream, were literally smothered in a chocolate topping.
The bill, with us each having had an orange juice and a coffee, came to twenty-four dollars, which we thought was a little excessive although the restaurant did possess a pleasant ambience.
After walking home in the cold, beneath a cloudless sky, I learned that “Stanley Rio” ( paying $1.40 on the tote for the win and $0.55 for the place; per a unit of twenty-five cents) had won the pacers’ final of the Inter-dominion, at Brisbane’s Albion Park; in a time that has set a new record. He is the first “Enzedder” to win the event on Australian soil since the outstanding “Cardigan Bay”, in 1963.
American “Red” Adair has plugged the blow-out in the oilwell in the North Sea. Tragically, almost thirty million litres of oil had already leaked from the well before he was able to do so.