We awoke at 6.30 a.m. and felt thoroughly frozen as it was just five degrees Celsius. We drove around to Tiki’s parents’ in order to take her father to work because his red utility is being repaired. Before we departed, I held a torch for him in order that he might have both hands free to nail down some carpet in the kennel of their Great Dane, Abigail. “Dad” joked about us both being in the “doghouse” at once. He also hung a bag over her doorway in an effort to help keep her warm. They are taking her to the veterinary surgeon, this evening, for they suspect that she has tapeworm.
At 10.20 a.m., I watched The Wheel, a programme in the series, Science All Around. A Scottish engineer by the name of Thomson invented the pneumatic tyre, which possessed nine inner tubes, in 1845. Another Scot, John Boyd Dunlop, redeveloped it in 1888 and the German, Karl Benz, used Dunlop’s tyres on his first car in that same year.
We visited “Mum”, this afternoon and she gave us an orange, plastic biscuit barrel for which she had paid four dollars and ninety-nine cents. In addition, we also received two tea-towels.
At six o’clock, a repetition of Bill Peach’s series, Holiday, examines the island of Penang, a health farm, as well as the prospect of exchanging one’s house for another’s, so as to greatly reduce the cost of accommodation. Live coverage of the Third Test from Trent Bridge, in Nottingham, is available from half past eight. Australia is 3-179 — in effect, 3-58 — at lunch, having lost the wicket of David Hookes when the left-hander was on forty-two.
Twenty years ago on the first day of August, especially in rural areas, it was customary for Australian children to wear a sprig of wattle to school to mark what was known as Wattle Day.
Nowadays, this day is more remembered for being the official birthday of racehorses.