It took me from a quarter past seven until a quarter to nine to wash last night’s dinner dishes. Although it was still a nippy seven degrees Celsius I hung out the washing to dry further, as it was sunny. In doing so I delightedly noted that the pink buds on the tree in the centre of our backyard are, indeed, those of the waratah.
I left at ten o’clock to walk to Miranda Fair. After having made a deposit at the local branch of my bank, I was informed that the balance of my account would have to be telephoned to me because the manager had locked himself in his office with the ‘balance sheets’ and wasn’t about to let anyone in.
At the dry cleaners, I handed over one dollar and fifty cents in exchange for the trousers I wore at our wedding. I returned home by five past eleven and watched a replay of the other night’s “David Jones’ Spring Fashion Awards”, compered by John Laws and featuring his third and present wife, Caroline. Designer, Trent Nathan, won the grand award.
It was twenty past two when someone from the bank rang, as promised, to tell me the balance of my account. At three o’clock, on Channel Seven, “The Saint”, centres upon a blind man who shoots company managers with his cane.
From five past four, after seeing a girl by the name of Blondie — she reminded me of Brigitte Bardot — sing “In The Flesh” on ‘Right On’, I walked, and even ran a little, to Tiki’s parents’ where I arrived just as she did, in her father’s red utility. We walked home together and, in doing so, took my tally for the day to five miles and that overall to four hundred and twenty-one.
Our viewing of “Flashez”, “The Big Match” and “Willesee” was followed by an elongated edition of “The Rockford Files” after which we adjourned to bed. Tiki disturbed me at midnight as she was in the process of preparing to visit our outside toilet and, unable to return to sleep, I watched Channel Nine’s screening of “Savage”, a film from 1972, which includes within its cast Martin “Mission Impossible”/”Space 1999” Landau and Barbara “Mission Impossible” Bain, who are husband and wife in real life, Michele Carey and Susan “Petrocelli” Howard.