Hostile & ravenous (Vol.5, 1983)

This is part 1 of this recording session, with part 2 (Episode 6) to follow in a fortnight.We start our chat with a catch up on Life: but I start out by saying how good mum is at Garage Band, and she tells me how she fixed the family kettle back in Ashburton years ago, one of the old ceramic Hecla electric kettles. (In the ep we don't know the name but we Googled since!) I also hear about a yacht problem-solving time at Lakes Entrance, and we mention the Bennington College podcast, which we're listening to on our morning walks. Mum catches you up on her latest horse fall and a CT scan. Also a pocket knife story from when she was about 10.Alma has had a lion cut and it was traumatic for everyone, and we talk about Severance and the finish of the season (in fact we get testy with each other as we totally disagree about it. SPOILER warnings obvs, and you can hear that little argument in the SIDE CHAT). Put it this way: I was burned by LOST.In the reading, mum has a drug talk with granny and Paddy (or probably they talk to her, because she is coming home at all hours and going to parties where people are doing heroin... fair that granny might be worried!)She's also hanging out with people who steal cigarettes from the Prince of Wales, so there's that as well. Seeing more bands, at the Chevron, still on apartment hunt, and I do feel sorry for my aunty as mum was climbing into her top bunk sometimes at six in the morning, when the poor bottom bunk girl had school!+As always, listen to experience: cringe, giggles and some real-life shit.Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries and thanks for listening!We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!