Peanuts (Vol.3, 1982)

Content warning: we chew peanuts VERY loudly

And we have a new, shorter intro which we will record each week. Gets you to the chat and the diary-reading more quickly!


I find out that Mum once contemplated taking up smoking a pipe…

We read out an email response that Mum received from Nell Campbell (Crabs in Jubilee) after contacting her earlier in the year and fangirling HARD. We chat about my 2024 travel plans, Jamie Oliver being in Melb- I seriously can’t believe I didn’t run into him- how I was a ‘Kodak’ child and had my brief 15 mins of fame and how one of Mum’s high school friends recently commented on one of our posts saying she actually met Adam at a party! We will hunt down the details and let you know once we have them!

We also chat about our never-ending battle with clearing out the garage, all the fun and nostalgic things we’ve found down there, and my and Jackie’s plans for each other’s funerals.

We finish reading Mum’s John and Betty story and hear about Mum picking up Grandad’s cigar box, going halves with Liz on a Police book, going to Inverloch with Sarah and her boyfriend and drinking a lot of ‘scotch and dries’ and having fun silly late nights. Mum’s on Uni break and dreading going back, she dreams of her childhood crush, goes to a Uni Beach Ball, meets a guy called Julian who looks like Roger Taylor from Duran Duran wearing leather pants and a ‘sort of kilt’ and who is ‘very very cute!’

We wrap up the episode chatting about how reading these diaries highlights how growth and change isn’t linear and how all the big and important stuff which makes us who we are is interspersed with lots of smaller things- the ‘in-between bits’ that just make up a life, with growing up definitely being a two steps forward one step back process at times. We also talk about how ‘relatable’ is a dirty word in the writing world and I have some, let’s just say, strong opinions on the state of fiction today. (Read more about relatability' in fiction -- https://lithub.com/why-i-struggle-to-relate-to-relatability/ )

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