Comparative Shopping: Thursday, 30th June, 1977

Tiki drove to work and we sat in the car so I could listen to “You’ve Got Your Troubles”, as it was being played on 2KY. It was a hit in 1965 by the British group, The Fortunes, and since then has remained as one of my favourite recordings.

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It has been another bitterly cold day, with a maximum of just twelve degrees Celsius.

When I told the gentleman at Col Buchan Discounts, in Miranda, that five hundred and eighteen dollars for the same brand and size of mattress and base did not compare favourably with the price on offer at Bob Pollard Discounts yesterday, he went away and returned to say that he would match it.

On “Willesee”, at 7.00 p.m., John Singleton and former Miss World (of 1972), Belinda Green, are seen to be riding around with the show’s reporter and resident funnyman, Paul Makin, in the back seat of a Rolls Royce. “Across The Top”, with adventurer, Malcolm Douglas, from 1967-’68, is shown from half past seven. He and his mate take the viewer on an arduous journey to Arnhem Land, the Gulf of Carpentaria and Cape York. Tony “The Persuaders” Curtis stars as a con man in “McCoy”, which is screened from half past nine. Apparently it did not appeal to the American public, a year or two ago, and only a handful of programmes in the series was produced. We, too, could understand why and turned off the television.

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