The black dog (Vol.3, 1982)

I find out that the Adam Ant obsession has only been going for one year...

Seriously how this that possible?! But it's true, this episode marks the one-year anniversary of Mum discovering Adam in April of 1981

And it’s with a heavy heart that we learn the news that Adam and the Ants have officially split- Mum surprisingly doesn’t take it too badly as now Adam can ‘focus on his own thing’ - we hear about her picking up a couple of mohair cardigans, seeing Psycho ‘not bad,’ and reading Kafka for the first time ‘it's weird’. 

We read about Hot Psych guy who’s now become ‘Happy Guy’ because he always seems happy, a psych wine and cheese networking night on the horizon, someone pushing a dummy filled with sheep’s brains off a building for April Fool’s and Mum’s plans to join: photographic club, jewellery-making club, pottery club and ski club. 

We also read about some harder stuff, as Mum deals with feeling let down by friends, feeling left out and feeling down on herself. This was a difficult episode to record and has sparked some interesting conversations between us about the power of words to pull you back to the past and how jarring it is to be reading out these things, not even necessarily to the public but to your daughter and by doing it being really vulnerable in a way we haven’t encountered on the podcast before. 

But despite some emotions towards the end of the episode we read some very touching words from Grandad which showed his faith in Mum developing into an amazing person- and I couldn’t agree more

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