After breakfast I painted the cornice in the kitchen for a second time. When Tiki saw what I was doing she became upset because I had decided to paint over what she had done the other day. I proceeded to undercoat the walls of the kitchen with white Pascol. However, the roller had become quite rough, therefore, I resorted to smoothing the paint over with the brush.
Two men from Col Buchan Discounts delivered our Iberian oak ‘Cadiz’ bedroom suite and I wrote out a cheque for eight hundred and fifteen dollars to cover the amount that was owed on it. By two o’clock I had finished applying the undercoat in the kitchen. “Sir Wisp”, a galloper from Queensland, won this afternoon’s running of the Stradbroke Handicap, in Brisbane, from “Tiger Town” and “Maybe Mahal”. The winner started at triple-figure odds.
As I drove to Manly Vale, I listened to Frank Hyde’s description of the rather dull rugby league international, that was being played at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Australia led France by thirteen points to nil at half-time and nineteen to seven with a few minutes remaining.
Having dined at K’s Snapper Inn, we were looking at the lights from Edgecliffe Esplanade in Seaforth when we noticed a fire raging by the Spit Bridge below. As we drove past the flames, we noted that they were actually emanating from a bonfire, which had presumably been built and lit as a celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday, in this the year of her Silver Jubilee. While Her Majesty’s actual birthday falls due in April, it is celebrated here in June, in order to disperse the taking of public holidays.