I began to pull up the old carpet in the bedrooms of our new house while Tiki ‘Baygoned’ the kitchen cupboards. We folded up the old carpet on the back lawn and left it, along with its underlay of felt, on the floor of the sunroom.
It was particularly dusty work, raising the carpets, but the worst task of all was the removal of those tacks that remained. The majority of which were surrounded by fibrous felt and the obvious thing to do was to flatten them as much as possible, for obtaining leverage with the claw hammer at my disposal had proven to be a futile exercise. The floorboards seem to be in a pretty good condition although plenty of knots jumped out of them as I hammered away.
At 2.30 p.m., we watched the motion picture, “Rhino”, from 1964, which stars Robert “Trackdown”/”I Spy” Culp and the British actress, Shirley Eaton. It was followed at four o’clock by another from that same year, in the form of “633 Squadron”, with Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris, Australian John Meillon, and John Bonney.
I had one eye on the television and one ear to my circa 1965 ‘Panasonic 8′ trannie as I listened to New South Wales just scrape home against Queensland, by fourteen points to thirteen, in the second game of the interstate series, which was also played at Lang Park, in Brisbane. The visitors trailed by two points to eight at half-time and two to thirteen at one stage. Queensland scored three tries to two.
Manly-Warringah was unimpressive in its victory over the wooden spooner’s Newtown, by ten points to five. “Seven’s Big League”, from half past six, features a delayed, edited replay of this afternoon’s match between Parramatta and Eastern Suburbs. The former won by twenty-one points to fourteen.
“This Is Your Life” follows, at half-past seven, and looks at that of actress and entertainer, Carol “The Mavis Bramston Show”/”Number 96” Raye. Born in Britain, in 1923, Carol emigrated to Australia in 1964. She has stated that she was once offered a seven years’ contract with M.G.M., but turned the offer down to have a family. Special guests on this evening’s programme include English actor, Stanley “Our Man Higgins” Holloway, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
“Nightwatch”, a motion picture, that bears the copyright of 1973, screens on Channel Nine from half past eight. It stars Elizabeth Taylor and the late British actor, Laurence Harvey.