The ballad (Vol.3, 1982)

I find out that Mum unknowingly attended Prosh* judging in 1982...

This episode we have even more tech problems (it’s totally me, during the ep I realise I'm not plugging in my mic/headphones properly!!) and seagulls squawking outside my window (very distracting!! And I don’t live anywhere near the ocean) as we read about Mum buying her first Sex Pistols album for $4.99, going to see Lady Chatterley's Lover, seeing Dan the psych guy and missing more Uni.

We read Mum's ballad which is deeply inspired by The Wolf and the Dove, and Twa Corbies, and Mum sets up the tape recorder to catch Liz sleep talking. We hear about more dreams which feature John McEnroe losing the men’s finals at Wimbledon- before he actually played, and lost, so a bit psychic!!!

We chat about why dads (or at least ours) tended to overpromise as we read about Grandad ‘thinking about buying a house around Richmond/Collingwood/Fitzroy’ (never happens), and wonder if our dreams foreshadow our future life in any way? And do the themes of our life change over time? 

We also realise we’ve been recording this podcast for almost two years. Mum asks if we’re bored and I say that it does feel like we’ve been doing it foreverrrrrr- but it’s all in the pursuit of creating living history!

*Prosh: a university event where you’re in teams and have to complete various tasks/events over a week. The final event is Scav a 24-hour scavenger hunt where there is a list of hundreds of items from the most mundane to the most whacky which you have to collect and bring to judging on the last day. I completed Prosh about 40 years later and attended judging held at the EXACT same place as Mum was!

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