We start recording while I'm out back sunning myself and mum is in studio, she understands how I like to multitask. We talk about health stuff then Summer House, and then it's onto the reading! October 1983 and mum is still picking up SCV folders and driving them around, is reading a Jackie Collins novel while being a little nervous about sleeping in the house by herself, after the robberies. She's sleeping with her 'trusty Stay-sharp knife', a classic '80s product it sounds like. Watching All The Rivers Run on tv, keeping the ongoing irregular hours, writing about Richard Gere in her diary: this is the day-to-day life of my mum.

There's the new job too at the Palais in St Kilda. The ESSO annual ball (good tippers); the KFC annual ball (shit tippers) and then a long section of writing where mum ponders what she wants to mean to the world. There's a new plan: to live in Hollywood for a few months (thanks Jackie Collins!) and then a literary dinner at the Palais.

Finally a day in mid-October that she describes as 'exciting, traumatic, hectic and fun'. A dinner with granddad that goes awry and involves an argument and tears, a party in Kew where mum loses her purse and 'meets a boy' (PATRICK!). Driving around Melbourne in the rain picking up Liz from a party, dropping her at Ashburton and then running into granddad, driving him home to Camberwell and then back to the party, all with Patrick along for the ride! Mum finds her purse! They go to Patrick's for 'coffee' and it really is coffee, they don't even kiss.

Then the next day mum is feeling sick and thinking about Jay and I wonder how much of an impression Patrick even made???

Listen in to hear how things go. We have entered the Patrick era.

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

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