The weekly children’s programme, “Behind The News”, screens at ten o’clock. Presented by Barry Eaton, it looks at the work of the Red Cross; as well as the Calgary Stampede: ten days of events, based upon the theme of a rodeo, that is held in the Canadian city after which it is named. The third segment heralds the greatest agricultural breakthrough since the year 1700, when the seed drill was invented, namely the planting of newly germinated seed in a special gel to overcome the factor of soil temperature. This method affords every seed the optimum opportunity to fulfil its destiny. All of this research has been carried out in England.
My doctor informed me that one’s level of cholesterol should fall between two hundred and three hundred, with the latter regarded as a high reading, and that mine was, indeed, in dangerous territory, at three hundred and twenty-one.
Consequently, it was stressed to me that I must walk for six kilometres a day and play as much golf as I can. A short list was compiled of foods I cannot have — ever! With this in hand I headed for home to eat the lamb’s fry and bacon that “Mum” had already prepared for dinner.
The actor, Peter Lawford, who was born in England, was interviewed on “Willesee”, this evening; shortly before Tiki and I set out to walk for five kilometres.
The film, “The Last Time I Saw Paris”, which stars Van Johnson and Elizabeth Taylor, is on television tonight.
Sydney delighted in a maximum temperature of twenty-six degrees Celsius.