“Australia” defeated “Sverige” by fifty seconds to take a commanding lead of three races to nil over her Swedish opponent. Meanwhile Australia’s team at cricket passed England’s first innings total, but tomorrow is the fifth and final day and a result appears to be out of the question. Its score at stumps sits on 6-226 of which David Hookes contributed 85 and Rod Marsh an unbeaten 53.
Having used the crowbar and a spade to remove the largest dead stump from beside our driveway, I watched “The Maggie Eckardt Hour” from ten past eleven and, at noon, “Keep Pace With Harriet”. Jill Perrryman was a guest on “The Mike Walsh Show”, which I attempted to view simultaneously.
Two pounds of veal stake cost me three dollars and thirty-two cents at Miranda Fair. I had retreated out of the heat and squally conditions by a quarter to three. In actual fact, Sydney’s maximum temperature reached 28.3 degrees Celsius, which means it has been the city’s warmest day in August since 1954.
In spite of me having recollections of this afternoon’s programme of “The Saint”, I watched it again, anyway. At four o’clock, I turned the knob to Channel Ten to view the pop show, “Right On”, which has Kobe Steele as its hostess.
Tiki is fed up with her job and wants to leave it. We drove in to town where a cappuccino in the Hoyts Cinema Centre cost us fifty cents each. We were there to see “The Deep”, which stars Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset and Nick Nolte. Prior to intermission, two short films were screened. “The Tennis Lesson” contains the simulation of sex between a woman and a machine, ‘The Prince’, that projects the balls. The other reviews this year’s “City To Surf” footrace which was sponsored by Sydney’s “The Sun” newspaper. Fifteen thousand competitors faced the starter.
Tiki is in a much better frame of mind, having thoroughly enjoyed “The Deep”. It pleased me, too, although I declared its finale to be an improbable one.