“Driver’s Licence, Anyone?”: Wednesday, 13th July, 1977

On this pleasant sunny morning, “Behind The News”, presented by Barry Eaton, screens from ten o’clock on the A.B.C.’s Channel Two. Topics for review include uranium, Pakistan, the Australian animated feature film, “Dot And The Kangaroo”, as well as the revolution within Melburnian schools where healthier, more nutritious foods are being sold at tuckshops.

Two men arrived to install a telephone at our house. They informed me that they were unable to install a wall phone neatly because of the plaster walls and subsequently we have been left with a customary one, in the colour ivory, in a corner of the lounge room.

Tiki and I left on foot at twenty past four so that I might cover my diurnal six kilometres. Two teenage boys were riding a home-made minibike near Camellia Garden. Its engine sounded like that of a lawn-mower. During our inward leg Tiki told me of how, earlier today, a lady had accidently dropped her baby on to the asphalt near the bridge at the rear of this same garden.

This evening’s edition of “Last Of The Wild” is entitled ‘The Shark’. Sharks do not age nor are they open to disease or infection. We viewed the motion picture, “The Greatest Story Ever Told”, which was produced in 1965 and features a plethora of stars, two of whom are Charlton Heston and Jose Ferrer.

A David Humphreys appears on the thirteenth page of today’s copy of “The Sun” newspaper along with the renewals to five drivers’ licences, which were sent to him through the post. One of the renewals pertains to him.

England won the Second Test by nine wickets when it scored the remaining runs required for victory. The only wicket to fall was that of its captain, Mike Brearley, who scored forty-four.

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