“Dad” and I removed most of the leaves from his above-ground swimming pool. Unfortunately, he fell heavily when stepping from the pool’s edge on to the nearby sandstone wall, severely grazing his thigh. He placed the blame for the accident on his bifocal glasses.
The pair of us travelled to our house where “Dad”, with my assistance, finalised the installation of the Simpson ‘Minimatic’ washing machine; affixed eight handles, in total, to the doors of the cupboards in the kitchen, and, after lunch, sawed the bottoms off the three doors that had previously been removed in order that we could have the carpet laid.
“Ask The Leyland Brothers”, from half past five, included a visit to Wave Rock, which is near Hyden in Western Australia, prior to transporting the viewer to the Flinders Ranges, in South Australia.
Tiki is two up on me as she has been to both Wave Rock and the Flinders Ranges. She spent five months travelling around Australia with her family in a caravan, in 1973. The nine weeks’ bus tour, in the year prior to that, took me to neither.
“Seven’s Big League”, from half past six, covers the match between the St. George ‘Dragons’ and the Balmain ‘Tigers’. The former triumphs, albeit narrowly, by twenty-one points to seventeen. At Brookvale Oval, this afternoon, in another game from this weekend’s round, Manly-Warringah accounted for Cronulla-Sutherland by twelve points to eight, having led by ten to five at half-time. Manly remains in fifth position on the ladder in spite of its victory.
Tonight’s programme in the series, “The Bionic Woman”, has Jaime Sommers, played by Lindsay Wagner, situated in the capital of country and western music, Nashville, Tennessee. We left Channel Ten at half past eight to view the film, “Machine Gun McCain”, on Channel Seven. Produced in Italy, in 1969, it stars John Cassavetes, Peter “Columbo” Falk and the Swedish actress, Britt Ekland. We found it to be a major disappointment.