At Tiki’s suggestion we had slept on opposite sides of the bed. However, in spite of this, I still experienced a restless night’s sleep.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, as I made my way outside to the toilet, in the rain, I trod on a slug with my bare foot!
During breakfast, Tiki had tried to get me to sing as low as the voice at the end of Elvis’s last single, “Way Down”. Much noise and laughter was the result.
We drove to work in varying degrees of rain. Although it was to cease, the sky continued to appear ominous. At half past one, “Behind The News”, presented by Barry Eaton, examined apartheid in South Africa; the American energy crisis; the mining of uranium in Australia; and the alternative sources of energy, namely those that pertain to the wind and the sun. The deserts of Africa are said to be expanding due to a lack of water on that particular continent.
As I walked to Tiki’s place of work I noticed that an Italian bicycle that bore the brand, Abeni, was being advertised in the window of a shop near to Sydenham Railway Station. The asking price was set at nine hundred dollars and a notice stated that the machine was for the professional cyclist only.
At six o’clock, the last progamme for this year in the series, “Country Road”, is screened on Channel Two. On “Willesee”, the Federal Leader of the Opposition and the former prime minister, Gough Whitlam, faces an audience, in the studio, that is comprised of fifty percent of those who support him and the same proportion of those who are hostile towards his leadership of the Labor Party.
The documentary, “The Lions Of The Serengeti”, is narrated by the American actor, Hal Holbrook, from half past seven. An hour later, on Channel Ten, “Benny Hill In Australia”, contains one skit in which the character being portrayed by Benny appears, to two nubile women, to be passing what they suspect to be two distinct streams of urine. This titillates their fancy and prompts them to believe that his character has been blessed with an extra appendage.