Age Difference: Sunday, 25th September, 1977

This is the last Sunday on which one will be able to buy a copy of “The Sun-Herald” for fifteen cents. From half past eight this morning I watched “Seven’s Big League”: a replay of yesterday’s grand final, with commentary by Rex ‘The Moose’ Mossop.

At ten o’clock, I began to vacuum in the second bedroom, however, the machine started to exhibit a distinct lack of suction. Tiki and I cleared its blocked hose by passing a curtain rod through it. Upon finishing that chore, I went outside and into the garage to start our new lawn-mower for just the second time. About ten pulls of the cord elapsed before it even dawned on me to check its tank, only to find it empty. A few more pulls ensued and then it came to my totally unperceptive mind that I had neglected to turn on the fuel.

I connected the new clip-on fittings to our new length of hose and watered the dry back lawn. At one o’clock we embarked on our walk. As we neared home, I drew clear of Tiki and made her laugh when I quipped: “The age difference is starting to tell!” She is more than eight years the younger.

“The Girls Of Paradise Island”, a motion picture from 1953, screened from two o’clock. It is about three American soldiers during the Second World War. Each falls in love with one of three sisters whilst stationed in the tropics. Tiki loved it! British actor, Leo Genn, is cast as the girls’ father.

From five, we watched the latter half of “Follow That Dream”. The film was produced in 1962 and features — the now recently deceased — Elvis Presley portraying a naive sheriff in America’s Deep South. We watched the second episode of ‘The Ugliest Dachshund’, from half past six, followed by “The Bionic Woman”, with Lindsay Wagner, at 7.30. We turned in by ten to nine, but not before I had washed the dishes.

Parramatta won its first premiership at rugby union since it joined Sydney’s competition, in 1934. The grand final was played, this afternoon, at the Sydney Cricket Ground against Parramatta’s more highly performed opposition, Randwick. The side, from western Sydney, won by seventeen points to nine.

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