Month: September 2019

I met a Cypriot at work today. He asked me if I knew anything of Cyprus. “Nicosia, Famagusta…” I replied. He told me that he was from Famagusta. With the thought that I’d done rather well, I pushed my luck by volunteering to draw a map of the island on a sheet of paper. He, however, was unimpressed with my effort and drew a detailed one that showed the Greek and Turkish parts.

He is from the northern territory where he had owned twenty-three flats — in two blocks, each six storeys high — before he lost the lot in the Turkish invasion. He is starting all over again, here in Australia!

We gave a workmate of Tiki’s a lift home to Ramsgate as clouds threatened to storm. En route I told him of how, in 1970, it had cost me but two dollars to see The Beach Boys play for ninety minutes as the audience sat on the extremely hard wooden floor of the disused bowling alley in Corrimal. Even he stated that that had been “unreal” value.

It began to rain as I opened the doors to our garage, but it was destined to only continue for half an hour. I watched some of the Colgate ladies’ tennis on Channel Seven. Jeanne Evert, Chris’s plump sister, won her match. On “Willesee”, at seven o’clock, presenter, Paul Makin, interviewed John Denver, who is in Brisbane.

During our walk we stopped at the Gymea Hotel and purchased a bottle of Kahlua coffee liqueur at a cost of ten dollars. The hotel is owned by the former boxing champion, Vic Patrick. We tried to dodge the puddles on the way home, as stars shone above.

Tiki is grumpy because she doesn’t want to go to work.

After work we visited her parents and handed her father three singlets, the bottle of Kahlua and a birthday card that contains my handwriting, three kisses from Tiki and one from me.

He already had their new fridge on a trolley, which bore large black pneumatic tyres, and we soon had it in place by manoeuvring the heavy object about the floor on a mat. We positioned their new stove by the same means. I also helped him unload his newly acquired set of old twin laundry tubs from the ute. He plans to breed worms in them to use as bait when he goes fishing.

“Dad” was already connecting the stove when Tiki and her mother returned with our Chinese takeaway from the Fountain Inn. Tiki and I shared our sweet and sour whole fish and combination chow mein.

Following the “ABC News”, at seven o’clock, on Channel Two and “A Current Affair” on Channel Nine, the others watched ‘Drug Patrol’ on “Taste For Adventure”, as I washed the dishes. From what I overheard and saw an Italian is arrested in Iran when the authorities literally rock his campervan and find hashish.

The British comedy series, “The Two Ronnies”, screened at half past eight and, at a quarter past nine, “Yes, Honestly”, whose cast includes Liza “Skippy” Goddard. “Dad” had placed his bottle of Kahlua next to his other presents: a bottle of Drambuie and another which contained Bell’s whisky.

The Federal Treasurer, Phillip Lynch, resigned at approximately twenty minutes past nine, this evening.