I arose and left the house to buy a copy of “The Sun-Herald” from the paperboy. It cost me fifteen cents. The day was to remain overcast, but there could be few complaints for it has been the first without copious amounts of sunshine in weeks.
This evening we watched the replay of this afternoon’s minor preliminary semifinal between the Balmain ‘Tigers’ and the Manly-Warringah ‘Sea Eagles’. The latter’s handling let it down badly and the team could have considered itself lucky to have trailed by just five points to seven at half-time. Manly’s Terry Randall injured a knee and did not return to the field for the second half. Although a try by Lindsay Drake levelled the score at ten all, the star of the match, English five-eighth, David Topliss, kicked a cheeky field goal to snatch back the lead. From that point on, Balmain, with a glut of possession from the scrums, went on to win comfortably by twenty-three points to fifteen.
Lindsay Wagner portrays Jaime Sommers in the series, “The Bionic Woman”, from half past seven. An hour later, on Channel Nine, the film, “Stand Up And Be Counted”, which was produced in 1972, is screened. Jacqueline Bisset, Gary “Follow The Sun”/”The Lieutenant” Lockwood and Stella Stevens are among its cast.
Tiki informed me that on her parents’ first trip around Australia “Mum” developed such an aversion to having to leave their caravan of a night, in unfamiliar surroundings and go in search of caravan parks’ public amenities, that “Dad” devised the idea of purchasing a large funnel and more than a metre of hose. He drilled a hole in the floor of a cupboard, connected the hose to the funnel and poked the remainder of its length through the hole in the floor. Problem solved!