I met Tiki at the railway station with a carnation in hand. As I had paid the florist the thirty-five cents, I had questioned her over the legality of her selling the blooms from the waratah; a plant I believe to be protected. Noticeably withered blooms were on sale for a dollar each.
Jim ‘Silver Eagle’ Cooper is the host of “Country Road”, this evening. Frankie Fontaine, who portrayed the loveable Crazy Guggenheim on “The Jackie Gleason Show” between 1966 and 1970, has suffered from a heart attack and is in a serious condition.
Pensioners, in Brisbane, have been discovered in what has been described as a ‘slave-labour camp’. Incredibly, such a practice has been in existence for the past twenty years.
Willesee’s humorous reporter, Paul Makin, loses his trousers during a day at the races. I washed the dishes while Tiki dried her hair in front of “The Dick Emery Show”. At eight o’clock, the dial was turned to allow us to watch the somewhat controversial, yet entertaining, “Love Thy Neighbour”, in which Jack Smethurst is cast as the bigoted Eddie Booth and Rudolph Walker as his coloured neighbour, Bill Reynolds. Kate Williams and Nina Baden-Semper play their respective, long-suffering spouses.