Once again it is a sunny, cold and smoggy morning which is accompanied by the light to very light breezes. I did some comparative shopping when I priced a pair of Adidas ‘Rome’ shoes at Myer, in Miranda Fair. There, the price was twenty-five dollars while at Williams and Grace Brothers it was $27.99. I did purchase a litre of Dulux ‘Tusk Ivory’, a large black spade and twenty metres of garden hose at Nock and Kirby, with each priced respectively at $5.15, $7.99 and thirteen dollars.
This evening we dined at the Black Stump Steak and Ale, which is located on the eastern side of the Princes Highway at Engadine. During our meal we consumed two glasses of lemon squash, two glasses of orange juice, two beef shish kebabs, an apple strudel — served cold, with cream — a slice of chocolate chip cheesecake, which was also served with cream, and received an after-dinner mint each with our coffee. The bill came to an extremely reasonable fifteen dollars and ten cents. We sat near to where we had sat when the restaurant was known as Lumbs.
We arrived home at ten to nine to find the cars of those attending our next-door neighbour’s Tupperware party parked everywhere. We watched the last forty minutes of the final episode of “Number 96”. The first of the serial’s one thousand two hundred and nineteen episodes was screened on the 30th of March, in 1972. Tiki and I have come to flippantly rename the series “Naughty Sex”.
Many of the actors and actresses — some of whom have been in the daringly explicit show since its commencement, for example Ron Shand (Herb), Pat McDonald (Dorrie) and Joe Hasham (Don) — said their goodbyes. ‘Dorrie’, quite understandably, shed a tear.
England, in the Fourth Test, had been 1-8, at 8.50 p.m., but at lunch had recovered to be one wicket down for seventy-six, at lunch, with Geoff Boycott on thirty-four and Bob Woolmer, thirty-three. Kerry Packer’s Channel Nine is providing a live telecast from Headingley, in Leeds.