Eva Slate
Replying to Alice Edwards
|Isn’t it marijuana????
Alice Edwards
Replying to Eva Slate
|You’re thinking of a reefa, and only if this was 2003.
Fiona Edwards
|Hello Alice. And hello@DanniiMinogue and @kylieminogue. Any advice on what to see in Cairns? We will be staying in the area for a week if you are free for a coffee. Love, Fiona Edwards xx
Clara Weber
|If you’re diving, swim on back to Thailand please. Miss you.
Hollie Baker
|G8 barrier reef is supposed to be really pretty!
Ayo Damiunse
|Tourists like you are ruining natureand killing the wildlife.
Isabelle Moore
|Have fun! Just don’t trust anyone during your travels because you’ll only get betrayed.
Alice Edwards
Replying to Isabelle Moore
|u ok hun :(
Noah Deer
|When are you going to be back in the UK already?!
Alice Edwards
Replying to Noah Deer
|Soon enough Noah. Now stop trying to flirt withme on AWOL, it’s too attention seeking and my mum is watching.
Oh my God, Mum is screaming at the top of her lungs. It is seriouslyeardrum-perforating levels.
It’s the karaoke staple,You’re So Vain, and she isoff-key in the extreme. She is so into the chorus – her eyes screwed up and sweat beading her forehead – that she forgets the song has a whole other verse. The music bopsalong nonetheless and she looks around her, suddenly helpless. Off stage, the karaoke compere hisses the next bit of the song at her.
Joe bounces up on stage to save Mum and they find the words just in time for the final chorus to pick up again. The pair of them fully howl the final ‘don’t-yous’, looking down happily at me, Mark and Hannah who are dancing like mad. We are all grinning ourheads off.
I have to say, this is a side of my mum I was not expecting to discover during my time here in Australia.
It’s been a busy,family-filled couple of weeks in Sydney. Lovely,full-on, intense, exhausting, meaningful, combative, annoying, important family time.
Mum and me have already had a couple ofminor-league squabbles over important things, like which dishclothI’m meant to use for hand washing, which one is just for drying plates and which ones are purely decorative. But I think it’s a good thing. It means we’re starting to feel comfortable with each other. Comfortable and secure in ournew-found –old-found – relationship. We’re able to risk disagreeing without being afraid. I don’t know that we’ll ever be fully normal, but I’mOKwith it if this isour new normal. We are happy to be back in each other’s lives and we’re hugging a lot.
