An overnight thunderstorm has brought the first rain since the twelfth of July. Nonetheless, we have received but a small amount.
I helped “Dad” replace the heavy, old terrazzo sink, in the kitchen, with a second-hand stainless steel one, which he had been hoarding in his garage for years. He replaced the old brass fitting beneath the original sink with new, ess-shaped, plastic piping and used it to replace the squashed and split, lead pipe which had been leaking beneath the sink in the laundry. I then glued some plywood back in to place, for it had broken away from near our ‘new’ sink. “Dad” improvised by using an adjustable spanner as a clamp until the adhesive had dried.
He broke the dilapidated terrazzo sink top and sawed through its inbuilt steel rods. This permitted me to carry it, in halves, down to the front gates where I laid it in our gravel driveway to provide it with greater traction and stability.
Channel Two’s abridged “Top Saturday League” screened from six o’clock. It covered this afternoon’s clash from Jubilee Oval, in Kogarah. Playing on its home turf, St. George soundly defeated Manly-Warringah by 29-12; having led by nineteen points to four at half-time.
Following the ABC’s news bulletin, at half past seven I turned the dial in order that we could watch the elderly Buddy “The Beverly Hillbillies” Ebsen portray the private detective, Barnaby Jones, in the series of this name. An hour passed and then we returned to the ABC’s Channel Two, this time to watch “4 Corners”, which, this evening, is concentrating upon the threat to the Canadian nation should the province of Quebec secede.
The British comedy, “Carry On Cruising”, follows from twenty-five past nine. The film, which was produced in 1962, stars Sid James, Dilys Laye and Liz Fraser.