I arose at 6.20 a.m. and bumped my forehead on the jamb of the toilet door as I attempted to avoid contact with the wet branch of a plant that was growing across from the fernery nearby.
Evidently the law which enforces the compulsory wearing of seat belts in motor vehicles is invalid. I remember having to have them fitted to my first car, an old VW ‘Beetle’, in 1971.
The film, “Lawrence Of Arabia”, from 1962, screens on Channel Seven at 7.30 p.m. My siblings took me to see it at the Barclay Theatre, in George Street, when it was first released in Sydney. I distinctly remember developing an almost unbearable thirst from viewing all of that sand and desolate scenery.