Eight Years, Today: Wednesday, 20th July, 1977

Today marks eight years since man first walked upon the Moon. It is a gloriously sunny winter’s day. Just as it was eight years ago.

Tiki drove me to Caringbah to buy two barbecued chickens, and thence to her parents’ where I showered downstairs. I packed boxes of belongings into the ‘Galant’ while Tiki prepared a savoury chicken dish for dinner. We consumed it in front of “A Current Affair”, which can be viewed from seven o’clock on Channel Nine.

The film, “The Sound Of Music”, with Christopher Plummer and Julie Andrews, is on television, in Sydney, from half past seven. I remember viewing it at a cinema in 1966, a year after the film was produced. And speaking of Sydney! Its Eastern Suburbs club was leading Brisbane’s Valleys club by seventeen points to two at half-time in tonight’s fixture of rugby league’s Amco Cup.

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