A hamburger cost forty cents. Three carnations, of varying colours, cost forty-five cents.
At The Lantern Tavern seafood restaurant in Cronulla: two whole lobster mornays cost seven dollars and eighty cents each; two orange juices; rich lemon cheesecake with cream; apple pie and cream; plus two coffees, came to a total bill of only nineteen dollars and seventy cents.
After dinner I listened to Sam Gallea’s programme on the radio. He played Cliff Richard’s recording, “Blue Turns To Grey”, and listeners were asked to phone in and name the artist as well as state the year (1966) in which the record had been a hit. Sam volunteered that The Shadows’ old instrumental recordings are, once again, really popular in England.