It has been announced that Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips are expecting their first child. The royal couple was married on 14th of November (Prince Charles’s birthday), in 1973.
A howling chill wind blew as I mowed the lawns this morning. Despite this, Sydney’s maximum temperature still reached twenty degrees Celsius.
We drove into town to see Clint Eastwood in “Enforcer”, only to arrive and find that it was not being screened. In lieu of this I regrettably stood in a queue of about fifty patrons to buy tickets to view the recent recipient of four Academy Awards, “Network”.
In spite of its reputation, we found the highlight on the programme to be the short film on skateboarding, in which enthusiasts can be seen riding up the sides of empty swimming pools. “Network” is riddled with swearing, verbosity and periods of prolonged boredom.
Cronulla-Sutherland defeated North Sydney by twelve points to seven, at North Sydney Oval. “Just Ideal”, a 33/1 outsider, won the Doncaster Handicap at Randwick, and the odds-on favourite, “Balmerino” ($0.35 and $0.30 on the N.S.W. T.A.B.) the Autumn Stakes.
From 6.30 p.m., we watched the series, “Swiss Family Robinson”. It is followed, at half past seven, by “Baa Baa Black Sheep”.