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AWOL.COM/Alice Edwards’ Travel Blog

12 July – 1.22 p.m.

HULLO.

I’m still in Australia and it’s still hot.

I’m just here to say that I’ve put my mum onAWOLbecause I thought it would be funny. Everyone follow her @FionaEdwards, but please don’t send her porn because that wouldn’t be funny. Or would it?

6 Comments · 153AWOLs · 239 Super Likes

COMMENTS:

Alice Edwards

Replying to Alice Edwards

|For real tho, it wouldn’t be funny.

Eva Slate

|Welcome toAWOL, @FionaEdwards! So glad you’re here with us.

Alice Edwards

Replying to Eva Slate and Fiona Edwards

|I’m glad too :)

Fiona Edwards

|Dear Alice, I hope you are well.Thank you for helping me to join theAWOL. I am now following @MariahCarey and @kanyewest and have asked them to message me about a possible duet. I will let you know when they reply to me. Yours lovingly, your mum xxxxxx

Alice Edwards

Replying to Fiona Edwards

|I’m sure it’ll be any second now.

Karen Gill

|Right, that’s it, I’m putting Mammy on here. We can haveanAWOLmammy-off.

‘HELP ME I’M GOING TO FALL,’ Mum is screaming from the rock face, sweating as she clings on, frozen andclammy-faced. Except she is maybe two and a half feet up, and nobody told her to climb up it.

‘OK, down you get,’ I say as nicely as I can, pulling her off by her backpack. She collapses dramatically to the ground.

‘I don’t think we should rock climb, afterall,’ she says, as I offer her my hand and hoist her up.

‘Good idea, Mum,’ I say, trying not to laugh.

Driving to the Blue Mountains National Park was her idea, but if I’d known she was going to be such a mad person, I’d have left her at home.

It has been a slow, careful and brilliant week. Mum and me have been moving around each other like new friends on a playground. Circling eachother warily, sharing eager smiles whenever our eyes meet, spending long nights talking until the early hours.