Bjorn Borg of Sweden defeated the American left-hander, Jimmy Connors, in five sets overnight to win his second successive final in the men’s singles at Wimbledon. The score reads: 3-6, 6-2, 6-1, 5-7, 6-4.
It was a delightfully sunny morning, but only six degrees Celsius, when we awoke at half past seven. A female Old English sheepdog, with its fur clipped, and a black, woolly Alsatian, followed Tiki and I as we walked to our new house. Having failed to gain entry, the pair waited outside for about an hour before they disappeared.
We combined to give the walls of the kitchen their second and final coat of ‘Tusk Ivory’ and then I covered the white undercoat on those in the bathroom with a first coat of the same. I left to walk ‘home’ at half past twelve, which meant it was my first afternoon off in, perhaps, the last four weekends. I found Tiki to be watching “The Iron Glove”, a film that was produced in 1954. It is set in England, in the eighteenth century, and features Robert “The Untouchables” Stack.
A motion picture, “Three Worlds Of Gulliver”, from 1960, screened from half past three and, at half past five, a new series of “Ask The Leyland Brothers” commenced: John Palotta’s ‘Tudor Court’ at Sandy Bay, in Hobart; and The Snowy Mountain Scheme — built between 1949 and 1974 — which includes a visit to the Berembed Weir, where my sister and I used to be taken as children, are featured.
“Seven’s Big League”, from half past six, covered this afternoon’s clash which was played at Cumberland Oval. I had heeded Tiki’s advice and not listened to hear the score earlier, therefore, it was tantamount to watching the match live. It proved to be an exciting and bruising encounter. The Parramatta ‘Eels’ led by six points to two at half-time, however, Manly-Warringah rallied to just scrape home by thirteen points to eleven. I had overfilled my glass of peach and mango juice in the doorway to the kitchen as I had attempted to watch the screen and pour simultaneously. Fortunately, Tiki took the incident fairly well.
The British film, “Carry On Up The Jungle”, from 1970, followed the latter half of “Hawaii Five-O”. It stars the late Sid “Hancock’s Half Hour”/”Bless This House” James, Frankie Howerd and Terry Scott, as Tarzan.
“Mum” had called in briefly, in the early afternoon, to check on our progress. She took one look at the nicely finished ‘traymobile’, that we’d given a home to after it had been placed on someone’s nature strip, and informed us that it was, in fact, a baby’s changing table. We had been puzzled as to why it only possessed wheels at one end.
Tiki plans to use it to hold her many potted plants.