Dismal Day

It has been a very dismal day, no sight of the sun at all, and cold too +3C maximum!!  (Extra 1).  I went to church this morning, the hymn for today is "The Lord's my Shepherd'.  Home for lunch, then little 'h' came for the afternoon.  Because it was such a miserable day, we stayed indoors, colouring in, and playing with her lego.  When little 'h' left, I had only clocked up 600 steps, so I went down to the lake to clock up the steps, but it soon got dark, so I headed for home coming in short by 2,000 steps.  Oh, well, I'll make up for it tomorrow!

Blip 1958

Year 1958

I started work as a typist at the Ministry of Works.  I was there for the next 5 years.  The second extra is me with my faithful car, a Morris Minor.

NZ News

Black Budget, raising taxes on tobacco, alcohol and petrol, passed by the second Labour government.
NZ's first supermarket, Foodtown, opened at Otahuhu, Auckland.
Brian Barratt-Boyes performs NZ's first open heart surgery at Green Lane Hospital, Auckland.
The emergency number 111 for fire, police and ambulance was introduced.
US base for Operation deep Freeze is established at the Christchurch airport.
The Wairakei Power Station was commissioned.  It was NZ's first geothermal power station.
Commonwealth Games:  
4 gold, 6 silver, 9 bronze, held in Cardiff, Wales
We won the gold medals with Murray Halberg, Men's 3 miles, Valerie Sloper, Women's Shot Put, Lawn Bowls, Men's pairs and Rowing Men's Coxless pair.

Famous NZers born in 1958
Simon Upton, politician  :  John Bracewell, cricket player and coach  :Tab Baldwin, basketball coach.  :Neil Finn, singer, songwriter  :  Jeff Crowe, cricketer  :  Martin Snedden, cricketer and sports administrator  :AJ Hackett, extreme sports entrepreneur (bungy jumping).The Topp Twins, entertainers  

Pop Songs, 1958

Volare, Domenico Modugno  :  All I have to do is Dream, The Everly Brothers  :  Witch Doctor, David Seville  :  Sail Along Silvery Moon, Billy Vaughn  :  Catch a Falling Star, Perry Como  :  The Purple People Eater, Sheb Wooley  :  Bird Dog, The Everly Brothers

World News 1958

Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland
Elvis Presley joins the army.
Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet Premier as well as First Secretary of the Communist Party.
Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana
Arnold Palmer wins the 22nd Masters Golf Tournament.
Alfred Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' is released starring Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak.
Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France.
Cliff Richard release single 'Move It".
Doctor Zhivago, novel, published in the US.
The first voice from space  :  recorded Christmas message by President Eisenhower.

Famous people born in 1958

Michael Jackson, Pop Singer  :  Ellen DeGeneres, (59), TV Host  :  Madonna, (58), Pop Singer  :  Ice T (59) Rapper  :  Alec Baldwin (59), TV Actor  :  Andrea Bocelli (58), Opera Singer  :  Kate Bush, (58), Rock Singer  :Michael Flatley, (58), Dancer

That's it for today.  Off out walking tomorrow, let's hope that the cloud inversion lifts.