We awoke at 6.30 a.m. but, as Tiki felt tired, we lay in bed for a further two hours. “Mum” rang just as Tiki was entering the shower and I would like to think I entertained her, by talking about the actors Kenneth More, the late Gary Cooper and the late Walter “The Real McCoys” Brennan, until her daughter re-emerged. We agreed to meet her at ten o’clock, in Miranda Fair, on what was another gloriously sunny morning.
I immediately prepared to take my shower, but not before Tiki had warned me that should I not be out within ten minutes I would have a basin of cold water thrown over me. Whilst I complied with her instruction, I still had cold water thrown over me. Twice! Before she told me of how much she loved me.
Once we had returned home from shopping, I set out to walk to her parents’ via the drive-in at the Caringbah Inn where I purchased two bottles of Tooth’s KB — beer is supposed to assist in the lowering of one’s cholesterol — for one dollar and fifty-four cents. Tiki clipped her white poodle, “Fifi”, prior to her also giving me a haircut.
The news on Channel Seven, from half past five, was followed by “Seven’s Big League” at six, which featured the replay of this afternoon’s major preliminary semifinal between Eastern Suburbs and St. George. Eastern Suburbs played poorly, and to add to its woes Arthur Beetson was sent off, ten minutes after the break, because he had elbowed Ted Goodwin. Eastern Suburbs will now play the winner of tomorrow’s minor preliminary semifinal between Manly-Warringah and Balmain.
Veteran actor, Buddy Ebsen, tracks down a murderess — played by the British actress, Pamela Franklin — in this evening’s edition of the series, “Barnaby Jones”, from half past seven. “Mum” drove us home, at 8.30, along with two old chairs she had donated towards our kitchen table, together with the nice indoor plant that she had kindly bought for us today. Its leaves resemble those of a monstera deliciosa.
I watched Bob Willis and Mike Hendrick add thirty-three runs at The Oval before England’s first innings came to an end with the total on two hundred and fourteen. Craig Serjeant was trapped l.b.w. for a duck and Australia was 1-6 at lunch, and 1-11 at tea; after which there was to be no further play. Australia defeated South Korea by two goals to one, at the Showground, to keep alive its hopes of qualifying for soccer’s World Cup.