' "It must be all the hair" ' (Vol.5, 1983)

And we're straight into the reading with no preamble, as this is part 2 following on from the previous session.It's the skiing episode, where mum goes to hire gear, eats avocado seafood, spaghetti marinara and TWO oysters Kilpatrick, not all at once but YUMMY. The Wimbledon finals are on, and mum is reading a book that it seems can only be mentioned in capitals: BEYOND THE DAWN. Up on the slopes there's an Austrian ski instructor who is predictably handsome and named Alouise, $17 lift tickets (ah '80s prices!!) and a boy called Jay who mum insists on sitting in a cold spa with at least once. There's some flirting -- we think -- who can be sure with the level of detail that's brought to us in the diaries, and we chat about crushing on strangers and how men don't really understand or need signs... they just act if they want to, mostly. Time to leave and there's car trouble with the VW and how to do a hill start. We talk more generally about how it is to go back and re-read diaries -- I never have and my number of volumes number in the 50s. Finally, we wonder how things will look next March, and where I'll be. I do have a wildcard up my sleeve!+As always, listen to experience: cringe, giggles and some real-life shit.  Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries and thanks for listeningWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!