Month: May 2025

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Time Tends To Become Wasted In Old Age

At the risk of repeating myself – – Tiki reminds me quite often of how this irks her — in old age one spends a proportion of the day searching for an item that has either been lost or, hopefully, misplaced. Just this morning I spent the greater part of two hours searching for my missing sock!

As Tiki deservedly sometimes likes to sleep in, before I get into bed at night I remove my clothing and drape it over the rail of the stairs outside of our bedroom, so as not to disturb her when I arise in the morning. When I do arise, I take my clothes from the railing and place them in, I must admit, a somewhat disorderly fashion on the back of my chair in the loungeroom.

Nevertheless, it was still a complete surprise to me that when I decided to remove my jumper (that’s Aussie for pullover or sweater!) in order to change my shirt, that the hitherto untraceable sock should fall to the floor, at my feet!

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Brian Ferry: Thursday, 5th May, 1977

Dense fog closed Sydney Airport this morning. “Mum” and “Dad” left from there, this afternoon, on a round-the-world trip. It is their second such trip in two years.

At 6.00 p.m., on Channel Two, I watched a programme of the “Last Of The Wild” documentary series, narrated by Lorne “Bonanza” Greene. “Willesee” included an interview with British rock star, Brian Ferry. He appears to be a well-mannered, articulate chap who has had an education of quality. He confessed that he is more of an introvert than an extrovert and, for this reason, dislikes interviews.

The motion picture, “Trapped Beneath The Sea”, from 1974, is shown from half past seven. It stars the late Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam and Paul Michael “Starsky And Hutch” Glaser.

 

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“Shoe Drop”: Thursday, 12th May, 1977

The documentary, “The Year Of The Wildebeest”, narrrated by the veteran English actor, James Mason, is shown on Channel Seven from 7.30 p.m. A number of animals are seen to drown and/or be torn apart by crocodiles, as they instinctively attempt to cross a river.

“Policewoman”, the perennial police drama series, which stars Angie Dickinson, as Pepper Anderson, and Earl Holliman, follows from half past eight on this same channel.

Tiki had chided me the other day for not having placed my shoes gently on the carpet upon their removal. Therefore, this evening, when she asked me to fetch her shoes and socks from our bedroom I painstakingly placed them at her feet ever so gently, only to be told that the shoes were, indeed, facing in the wrong direction. I carefully lifted them and at a height of about thirty centimetres, allowed them to fall freely.