One whole invoice (Vol.5, 1983)

We start off and mum is out of sorts, blaming the cold snap as well as Fast 800. She is also considering a bath which is a HUGE step after her breaking her knee. We discuss the strategies around getting her in, but more importantly getting her out.

The diary reading begins with mum and my uncle stranded in Mt Beauty after the VW bug KON breaks down on the mountain. Mum is thinking about Jay, her cold hot tub crush. Back in Melbourne there's a lot of shopping, mum gets a cold AND her period, and there's dinner at Le Secouf again with the ex fake wife.

There's Lygon St, a couple of cops who break into a car to move it (because it's boxed mum's car in where she parked in a laneway) there's the Espy and a young Irish guy telling mum he loves her, upon sighting her.

We talk stalking these days v the old days, how many ships in the night there were back in the '80s, and mum makes a list of why she might expect to hear from Jay.

Mum and I wonder whether guys pine the way we do, and we talk about how women can obsess, how it just doesn't seem like a fair playing field. And then a list of reasons why Jay may NOT get in touch.

Mum's really in her video era: there's many trips to the video library and many watchings and rewatching of films, a sign of early binge tendencies. A new age!

Mum says she's starting a photography course on 1 August but then there's a plan to go to Auckland and work there for a few months. Also a plan for a bookshop in Melbourne. All over the shop.

A day's skiing at Mt Buller and bent stocks -- remember to lift them up when the chairlift approaches the ground again kids!!

Locked out of the car in the carpark and two nice guys in a panel van next door give Mum and E some hot milo. Mum says they were very kind but neither of us mention the risks of taking a drink from strangers, apparently not a thing to even think about back in the '80s???

And we finish the reading with finishing Volume 5. I won't say we're racing through but we are getting them done, slowly.

Happy listening and next ep we're on to Vol 6.

As always, listen to experience: cringe, giggles and some real-life shit.

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