N is for Nnigel

It's the end of Grade 8, the end of 1989, and the end of the 80s!

Bestie gets a new boyfriend, attends another Overnight Skate, and makes plans to keep the boredom away over the school holidays.

Let's see exactly what she gets up to...

And remember, if you think you know us - know, you don't!

Episode Transcript

(00:01):
I've known my bestie for fifteen yearsnow, but what was she like before
I met her? Welcome to Diaryof my Bestie, where she reads to
me her childhood diaries. Or Namesand identifying places have been changed to protect
the innocent and the guilty. We'realso saying anonymous. So if you think
you know us, no you don't. Welcome back to Diary of my Bestie.
Hello Bestie, Hello bestie, howare you? I'm full as a

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goog right now. I just atedinner and yuh? Do we dare explore
what the origin of that phrase is? Or do it depends on which origin
is it the I've heard two origins, and I'm going with the PG origin

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the googie egg. Yes, okay, cool, all right, I concur
with that definition, and let's lockin the etymology of that straight away,
all right. So where are weup to in the diary? Right?
We are towards the end of nineteeneighty nine and my first year of high
school, and I have yet anothercrush on a boy who is much older

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than myself. What is a dayending? And why? Surprise? Surprise?
Okay, hit me with it.Saturday, December two, nineteen eighty
nine, Dear Diary. Aaron wasn'tat skating. He's the crush. Rory

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wasn't at skating. He's the guythat I'm in the band with. Mm
hmm, the one that you're waitingto call and organize the session. Yeah,
breaky, yeah, because we're goingto be big, big stars.
Yep. Paula was at skating.She likes Daniel. That is Mike and

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his Harley. This is my pretendolder brother, Daniel, Ah who is
writing letters to Paula. And I'mpassing on and Mike's in on it.
We're off to a big start.So what We've had imaginary horses, imaginary

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pregnancies, and now I have animaginary brother. Okay, on behalf of
everyone. Context. Please, ifyou remember last episode, she's a skating
friend, and for whatever reason,I spun this story that I had an
older brother called Daniel who had leftschool and he was really cool and he

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wrote a Harley. I don't rememberthat, okay, okay, And I
was writing letters to Paula pretending tobe Daniel. That's Macavelian. And now
Mike's in on it too. Okay. Do you have an end goal for
this or is it just like forthe lolls, just for the lolls,

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I guess. Okay, all right, Well we did ascertain that I'm evil
at heart, so this is probablypart of that. But it's an awful
lot of effort to me evil.It is. Maybe I was just bored
fucking drama in my life. Youdon't like drama in this age. We

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wouldn't have this podcast if you lackeddrama. M that's true. Yes,
Well, she gave me a blackporcelain cat and a tiny clay mouse as
a Christmas present. I still havethem. Okay, I'm very cute.
There's no context behind that. It'sjust like, here's random animal implements.

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That's just a present. She knewI liked cats, so she probably saw
this little thing and thought, Bessie'lllike that, and I did. Well,
she's she's in a relationship with yourolder brothers, so yeah, maybe
she's trying to up or she believesthat this person is real and she is
so romantically involved, she might aswell start acting like the family. Yeah,

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did I assist? Okay, allright, Mike, and I almost
accidentally gave Daniel away. You saythat, like Daniel was actually someone to
give away. Well, Daniel's inInverted Commerce. Okay, all right,
yes, all right, I watchedAnne of green Gables. I cried when

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Matthew had a heart attack. IranKimberly Bruce. She was crying too.
For people listening, always have toremember the modern day context verse. When
this actually happened, you probably watchedit on TV. You didn't happen to

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be spinning it up on a streamingservice. And your friend just so happened
to be doing it as well.And when you called her, she wasn't
surprised that you called her, becauseit's like, ah, we're both watched
okay, watching the same thing atthe exact same time. All right,
Just for you youngins there, Andback in our day, we had a
thing called a TV. We didn'tget to choose and if you missed it,

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too bad. True, okay,all right, So any green Gables
not a big shock. But yeah, I spread hay all over the avery.
The birds loved it. M Ilove Aaron. Still on the Aaron
train, but I'm still there.I still think I haven't seen him since

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he left school. I Aaron's notaware of this, is he? No?
I don't think so. And you'rewaiting for Aaron to turn up at
skating yep, so I can makemy move okay, all right, okay,
so borderline stalking, but not reallybecause minimum efforts talking. Yeah,

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okay, okay. Monday, Decemberfourth, nineteen eighty nine, Dear Diary,
I'm tired. I went to thedentist because there was a cancelation.
I had four needles and three teethpulled. Mum gave me three dollars in
tooth fairy money. These they weren't. Yeah, that's a fairly decent pay

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out. So there was nothing wrongwith these teeth. It wasn't because they
were like rotten or anything. Mymouth was overcrowded, so that's what you
have to have some teeth pulled soyou make some room, all right,
which actually didn't really work because myteeth still grew in really crooked anyway.

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But yeah, well I imagine ifthey hadn't have done that, Yes,
it probably would have been ten timesworse. But how I got three bucks,
yeah, three dollars ching jing yep, two more baby birds have hatched.
I love Aaron short shut to thepoint. I like that we skip

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a few days here, and nowit is Sunday, December tenth, nineteen
eighty nine. Okay, so dayafter skating, Yep, dear Diary,
I was in the uttermost depths ofdespair this afternoon. Okay, any guesses
for what might have happened. It'sbeen four days since the last entry,

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so you could have possibly dumped Aaron, although he didn't know, fall in
love with someone else. They'd brokenyour heart and you fell in love with
someone else. They came to skating, professed their love, you made out
with them, and then on Sundaythey sent you a phone call saying sorry,
I'm in love with your imaginary brother. Asking me to guess at this

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point is a bit futile. Well, then I will tell you. You've
got part of it right sort of. I had gotten my hopes of finally
seeing Aaron up so high that whenI did see him and he refused me,
although he did it ever so politely, my hopes died. Okay,

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so tell me how. But underthe context of the fact that this guy
had no idea it was coming.So I guess. He came skating and
I told him that I liked him, and he was like, uh,
who are you? Thanks, Well, he knew who I was. Yeah,
like you know, like because atthis stage he's four or five years

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older than you. Yeah, buthe was part of the whole skating family,
I know. But it's not thatbigger, not that smaller family that
he would go. Yeah, that'sthat's best, you know, like you
were the younger sister of Mike.So yeah, but he did know who
I was. Okay, all right, My life is a perfect graveyard of

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buried hopes. That's an Anne ofgreen Gables quote, extremely dramatic. Yes,
however, we now are solemn andhappy friends, and I'm glad we
can stay that way. I'll paythat, Okay, happy with that.
Last night I went to Deborah's dancingconcert. She is a very aspiring ballerina,

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a tantalizing jazz dancer and promising Hirelanddancer. Yours faithfully me? What
is a jazz dancer? Jazz ballet? Okay, okay, I don't know
how that differs from other forms ofmodern dance, but that's what it was

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called. Then, don't know ifit still is, all right, So
yeah, I think possibly sounds likeI'm not that concerned about Aaron, even
though I've said I was in thedepths of despair. But then I'm like,

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I'm glad we can be friends.So who knows well, to be
fair, it was a one sidedrelationship, yes, very much. So.
Now it is Monday, December eleven, nineteen eighty nine, My dearest
Diary, I am very upset.Great Auntie Flora Grants's sister is very sick

(10:48):
in hospital with cancer of the bow. Her doctors say she won't live until
Christmas. I didn't know her well, but I'm sorry anyway. I actually
don't think i'd ever remembered meeting herlike I would have met her when I
was really really little, but Idon't have any memory of that. On

(11:09):
a happier note, I like NigelTowers and he likes me. Ah,
so Nigel actually knows Okay, he'sin the grade above me, he's in
grade nine. Perhaps I'll be goingwith him soon, I certainly hope.

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So he's probably going to the overnightskate another one. Now, he wasn't
a regular skater, he wasn't partof my skating friends, but I guess
he's just like, okay, I'llgo. So you had a thing for

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the guys who are like, oh, I won't be there every week,
but yeah, yeah, best ofboth worlds. Maybe can have this interesting
stuff going with people at school andthen have stuff going with people at skating
and never the twain shall meet.Perhaps. Well it's sort of like I

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guess, kind of like if youhad seen them all the time, then
there'd be that pressure. Actually,you couldn't have a romance from afar if
you're there right in your face.True. I mean it didn't work out
with Nick, so, but you'dhave to think sort of it's sort of
too like you've got this person whooccasionally turns up, and you've got your

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core people at skating every week andyou're like, oh he's turned up,
isn't he lovely? Or he's nothere console me? So it was more
about the relationship with them than necessarya person. Yeah, that sounds about
right. I just received a Christmascard from Nanny and Gramps which inclosed forty

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dollars chang. Wow, that's abig score, it was. I am
buying that guitar keyboard with it nicefrom the Dick Smith catalog. Yeah,
but I don't know why I'm stillplanning on buying it, because the next
sentence is I'm out of Rory's band. Oh no, you're out of the

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band that didn't exist because they'd rathera males singer. Okay, but that's
okay. Can I ask a question, of course, were you reminding Mike
and Rory about this band? Andwhy haven't you called Mike didn't have anything

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to do with it, Okay,but I Rory wasn't turning up at skating
either, so okay, So howdid he I thought Mike was in the
band as well. No, Mikewas in a different band with guys school.
Yeah, and he picked you tosing because he knew you could sing,

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or the mic connection or just nI think it was just we were
chatting about music one day and it'slike, uh, I'm gonna, you
know, form a band, andI was like, I can sing.
He was like cool. How oldis Rory? Oh he was a couple

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of years older, so maybe fifteensixteen. I've just I still have flashback
nightmares to an eighteen year old anda twelve year old and hey, I'm
in a band. You should bea singer in my band. No,
I don't. Yeah, I don'tthink he was interested in me in that
way at all. Well, Imean, he had my number and he

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hadn't wrung me so I mean slighttick in his good column, but not
let's put it in pencil, notpen Yeah, but I'm out anyway now
yeah, well okay, all right, yep, I'm cool with it because
I'd rather do piano lessons. Okay, so you're buying that's why you're buying

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the Keita. Yes, sorry,though we did have an organ at home,
so I could have just used that. Yeah, but it was was
it one of those big organs thatsat in the lounge room and you had
to yeah. Oh it wasn't likemassive, but it wasn't portable. Yeah.
My my parents had one of thebig church organs. Like, it
wasn't a church organ, but itwas. It was too big to When

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we sold the house and moved,we left the organ there because it was
too hard. Yeah. Yeah,So probably because you wanted to practice in
your room. Yeah, because youwanted to do it in your room,
or your parents slash Mike didn't wantyou out in the common areas. Yeah,
in the music room. That makessense. I love Nigel, okay,

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good old Nige. Tuesday, Decembertwelfth, nineteen eighty nine. How
much did I invest in Nigel?Like? How long does he hang around
for is he like a little bit? Yeah, okay, my dearest diary,
I forgot to tell you this yesterday. I have an ill bird.

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I don't know if my bird withthe chest were made a recovery or not,
but I'm guessing so or I mighthave said it died. And are
you using like the end of theeighties rap version of ill? So he
was very no, I do meanunwell? Okay, all right, Yes,
she is severely egg bound. Okay, Doctor Rob gave her a calcium

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injection and liquid paraffin and some stuffto make her uterus contract. I hope
she's all right. And other timesa calcium injection would be something else.
Well, she's got an egg stuckup her and Rob's given her a calcium
injection. You can't put that outthere and have me not walk through the

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door. That is it's you.We can't all have contracting uteruses. Okay,
all right, all right, Well, hopefully the bird's okay. We'll
see it's half past six in themorning. Lots of early diorizing you.

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That ain't me anymore. No,That's the thing that's probably the most off
putting thing about this whole podcast seriesis how early in the morning. You
seem to be productive, and it'slike, is this the same person?
Well, I used to get likeif I was getting picked up or whatever,
it would be between eight and eightfifteen. Yeah, and in the

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mornings as well as getting ready forschool and whatnot, I'd have to like
go and feed my birds and allthat kind of thing. But still you're
of that age where you're supposed tobe a lump and you're supposed to get
up with ten minutes to go quickly, throw everything together and get out the
door. You're sitting there going hmm. Let me compose some pros to narrate

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the day and set up things thatwill pay off later in the day.
I was always very good about,like getting up and doing what I had
to do in the mornings. Youstill are just offset in toime. Yes,
if I can make an appointment forlater in the morning, I will
make it later in the morning.Anything to delay getting up. You're a

(18:51):
brunch person, Yes, I ama brunch person. I got a phone
call yesterday afternoon from my old primaryschool secretary and she said it's perfectly all
right for me, Debrah and Natashato visit on Friday afternoon. Okay,
Okay, So slight spoiler, butthat Friday is going to be the last

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day of school, okay, andwe are finishing at lunchtime. Okay,
can I have a guess? Yeah, they're inviting you back to primary school
so you can give a talk tothe kids leaving primary school about what to
expect going into high school. Notquite, okay. We just wanted to

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go visit and say hi to ourold teachers and okay, and that kind
of thing. Okay. Yeah,so we had organized to walk from high
school to our old primary school andhave a visit and then go home from
there at the end of the schoolday. Yeah right, you know how,

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I'm quite nostalgic, very much.Even back then, it was like,
let's go visit primary school when mostpeople would be happy not to go
back there ever again, Yes,okay, right, it's good. It's
a good thought though. Yeah.I can't wait to see Nigel tomorrow.

(20:30):
Is he coming? Just saying tomorrow? No, it must be the same
day. Why did I say tomorrowunless he's not going to be there.
I hope I don't have second thoughts, like sometimes maybe this is the guy
I have been waiting for what daysis this is Wednesday day? It's Tuesday
at half fast six in the morning. Didn't you do school sports on the

(20:52):
Wednesday and would that be skating?Yeah, but we didn't have it in
the last week of term. Idon't know anyway, I must be off
yours truly me. I love Nigelokay later, I am now the proud

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girlfriend of one Nigel Towers. Nice, very nice. He went Christmas shopping
after lunch today. I wonder ifhe got me anything. He doesn't go
to school, does he he does? He's in grade nine, okay,

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so obviously he got let out afteryeah, okay for whatever reason. I
wrote him a nice long letter aboutDeborah and Nick, the overnight skate which
he is going to, and whathe wants for Christmas, So telling him
what he wants for Christmas or probablyasking okay, yeah. We saw an

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ARI video today which was fantastic.ARI being religious education. M I hope
I can stop my swearing and crudenesssoon. I am trying. I'm no,
It's just like I hope I canstop being a potty mouth, not
like I've stopped. It's like Ihope, I hope I can, hope

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I can. Yeah, I amtrying. I'm just so thoughtless and scatter
brained when it comes to these things. Anyway, you're in love with anything
with two feet and a heartbeat.But you know what, swearing that's bad.
Yes, after five hundred and seventyeight blokes or whatever, that's all
right. I didn't swear during onceone of them. So pretend older brothers

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are okay. Riding on people's backsand squating them with poppers is okay,
but you know, you know,really doesn't like the fowling. No,
okay, Anyway, I must goread the Bible, your faithful and loving
friend. I love Nigel. Okay, So with the Bible stuff, was

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there like Bible study or you justbasically sat down, flipped open how to
read or something? Ye're just readingit at home? Okay. Wednesday,
December thirteenth, nineteen eighty nine,Dearest Diary, Nigel got my letter.
I probably gave it to either Deboror Natasha, because they took a particular

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bus, like a small bus thatwent just out of town, and Nigel
lived just out of town in thatdirection too, so he was on the
same bus. So I think Iprobably gave it to one of those and
they'd given it to him on thebus that morning. I can I so

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this is the same day. Isthis the same day as you said,
I hope I see him tomorrow oris this the day? This is the
day after? Could you have beencould you have given him the letter?
And the reason you wanted to seehim is you would have seen him on
the bus that they caught. Youmight not have been on the bus,
but you might have been waiting forthem to arrive and seen him. Oh,

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they usually get there way earlier thanI got to school. Okay,
just trying to work the puzzle out. Yeah. At lunch we walked around
together and sat in the library fora while. He kept taking the note
out and opening it up, thenclosing it and putting it back in his
pocket. Then he said, you'rethe only person who can spell my name,

(24:52):
right. It looked like he wantedto say something else. Okay,
all right, how many ways canyou spell? I don't know. Is
that one of these fancy guys asa double G or a double L?
Is it? No? It wasstock standard spelling. Okay, Well he's

(25:14):
Chinese best moves. Yeah, yeah, I wrote him another letter during last
period because we had form class andgot our report cards. I did really
well. My lowest grade was aC plus for PA. That's never changed
or through high school, I nevergot higher than that for PA, and

(25:38):
my highest was an A plus forscience. Nude. Yeah, very good.
Anyway, I'd better go. Ilove Nigel and always will bold predictions.
Yep. Been together for one day, yep, yep. But he

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actually you liked you, He knewyou existed and liked Yes, and spoke
words to you more than hi.Yes, amazing. Yes, it's a
romance for the ages. Skipping acouple of days to Saturday, December sixteenth,
nineteen eighty nine. Dear Diary,I'm pretty tired because the overnight's skatee

(26:23):
bet you are based on last time. Nigel wasn't there, but it was
still pretty good. I stayed upall night. I had stayed awake for
more than twenty four hours when Iwent to sleep at nine o'clock this morning.
Kelly Wilson is going with David Rbackerand Nick Major used Kate Orford just

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for a bit of fun. Othercouples were Doobie and Natalie. Doobie is
a nickname. Kirsty and Matthew Karenand Kent sounds like Kent Town's finally found
someone to go swimming in his poolwith. We love Kent, We're big

(27:07):
fans of Kent over here this podcast. So Nicole and Jake and Leah and
Dennis, did we ever find outfrom Kent whether he invited you over for
a swim? Was code? I'mnot friends with him anymore, So we
need to track down Kent special.I ran into him maybe about ten or

(27:30):
so years ago in Bunnings. Hewas working there, so I could go
back and see if he still workshere. What you need to do is
go get one of the inflatable poolsfrom Bunnings. We'll up to me and
go, hey, remember, no, what if he thinks I'm serious?

(27:51):
What if he does? Remember Ithink he was climbing the corporate ladder in
the world and then you didn't wantto come over for a swim, and
he was so heartbroken that all hecould do was work in a hardware store.
And now he works in Bunnings.And when no one's looking, he
just walks up and down the swimmingpool, ale just going, just with
sad songs playing in his hands,looking off into the distance, and it

(28:15):
plays that Simon and Garfuncle song.And he's like, she could have come
over for a swim, but shegot with some other guy in my pool.
Why couldn't have been me? Inever got with anybody in his pool.
Wasn't there a thing where you wentto a party at his place?
No? We never. The partynever actually happened. Okay, that's where

(28:37):
I'm getting confused. Too many parties, too many people. But yeah,
it had been on the cards,and I had been hoping that's right,
you were going to go to You'regoing to see Nick at Kent's party.
Yeah, Nick and Kent would havebeen in the pool with puppy dog guys
going, yeah, how darkness myold friend. Yeah, you need to

(28:59):
know is Kent? Okay, that'swhat we need to know. All right,
next time I go to Bunning,so we'll see if I see him.
Okay, Barma packer float is going, here's my Sorry Paul can't but
anyway, he's getting a bit thisnight, so it can't be all bad.
Did she go back to his pool? Was that his move? Did

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no one else have a pool?And his thing was like, hey I've
got a pool, Come over tomy pool? Was his pickup? One
probably was. It's probably all hehad going for him. Well, hopefully
hopefully someone came over for a swim. I hope so. Yes. Anyway,
I must go. I've got togo back to sleep. See you

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tomorrow. I love Nigel. Sunday, December seventeenth, nineteen eighty nine.
Do you diary? Today was arather uneventful day. I hope things start
to improve soon, or else Iwill be bored all the school holidays.

(30:06):
Okay, it's a desperate please straightoff the bat. So yeah, what
is this week one? Yeah?Like school finished Friday. This is Sunday.
Oh god, But then again,you're tired from the overnight skate.
Yeah, I am probably out ofsorts. I slept for a bit about
five hours. I'm still tired,and I'm having trouble with my vision.

(30:32):
I get a headache type thing sometimeswhen I try to do stuff like butter
bread or right. The only timethis headache starts to improve is when I
put my hand on my forehead orclose my eyes. If it gets any
worse, I'll have to get Mumto take me to the optometrist. I
do enjoy the two diametrically opposed activitiesof but just buttering bread. If you

(30:56):
pulled out the veggie might fine,not a problem, just fine. It
was just you probably had a lergicreaction to butter. Butter and pencils.
Maybe yeah, butters and pencils.I think your parents could be the secret
invented of I cannot believe it's notbutter because that was the only thing that
they could have where you didn't gettemporary blindness. Well, if that was

(31:19):
an allergy, I'm glad I don'thave it anymore because I like butter,
yeah very much. So anyway,I have nothing else to say, so
I'll go and see what mum ismaking for dinner. Hopefully not butter blin,
hopefully not butter based. I justsay as a mum, now I
freakn hate that question, what's fordinner? See, we had more time

(31:44):
to cook, so like, doesit really matter? Because no matter what
it is, you're going to haveto eat it, So why don't eat
his weight? And it can bea surprise when you get to the table,
yeab it? Being grown up?If we went somewhere to eat and
some and goes surprise food eat it, you'd be like that kind of happens
when you go to a dinner partythough. I know, but you're sort

(32:07):
of engaging. Like if I saidcome to a dinner party at my house
and you turned up, you wouldbe surprised if I didn't serve you something.
Well, yeah, that's true.Yeah, so you you have brought
into the conceit that you are goingto somewhere where someone will serve you food.
And also the conceit is that me, knowing you as I do,

(32:27):
I hopefully would have tailored the menuto suit you. Well, yeah,
I do take my children's tastes intoaccount. So yeah. But I actually
for a while had this blank menuup on my fridge and I would write
the week's meals in in one ofthose chalk pens mm hmm and the yeah.

(32:51):
Yeah. I stopped doing it becausethey would still come to me and
say what's for dinner? And Icould be in the kitchen a meter away
from that menu on the board andthey would still ask me. So it
was like, ugh, and notnot to defend them, but could could
they not necessarily be asking what whatfood are we consuming? Maybe they're asking,

(33:16):
Hey, we're just checking that you'rethe one who's making the food,
because we feel the safest preparing ourfood, Nazie. If Dad was making
dinner, he'd get pizza, okay, and they'd prefer that, okay,

(33:36):
not to get all macavalen. Macavelienis my word of the week, by
the way, but not to getmacavelien. Could it be a secret plot
where they go to you and say, hey, Mum, what's for dinner?
And you get so exasperated with beingasked the question, they'll go,
it's okay, Mum, well toask dad. And they were trying to

(33:58):
get pizza. And they were justtrying to trigger you to the point where
you would let them get whatever theywant in takeaway terms. They are definitely
clever enough. I know that.That's why I'm suggesting it, because I've
been around them enough to go,yes, that's essentially what they're saying is
like, let's get mums so frustratedthat she doesn't want to cook dinner so

(34:21):
we can get take out. Yeah, yeah, that could have been.
But yeah, I don't do themenu anymore anyway. And sometimes I resort
to answering them in the two waysthat my dad is to answer me,
Yes, do you want to knowwhat is it? Fried? Animal?

(34:43):
Part? Yeah? Pretty much.One was snake's bum on a bikie mm
hmm, and the other one waspickled budgery guardbums. My dad does that
to my daughter. When my daughterasked, he will bust out some type
of fried animal things, so itis universal. Yes, it's good.

(35:06):
When I say that, they kindof look at me like, what see
it's out there. Palettes have changed. You've got to say sauteed budgy us,
yes, or like a budgy asigh bowl, yes, yeah,
a vegan budge bowl, a veganbudget ball. I think my daughter would

(35:30):
actually like that. What you coulddo. What you could do is gets
small chicken breasts right and make abudgy shaped thing and say it is actually
baked budgie and you use little littlecarrots or little something that look like the

(35:52):
feet, so all it is.It's the You actually have the two chicken
breasts lying on its side, havethe little feet poking out of it,
and have sort of another like chunkas the head, and you serve on
a plate or what is it asfried budget You think I didn't know how
to make it bad? Budge me, but that's kind of no. See

(36:14):
that's me being funny haha, Dad, soon to be old Dad. If
you want me to be mean,you take one of your budgies and put
it in a cage somewhere else,then serve that up. So she walks
in, looked for the budgy,Budgie's missing, and there's budgy on the
plate. That's me being mean.Yes, this is tweety. Enjoy I

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reckon. I reckon If she askand say, like, what's for dinner?
Baked budgie, there you go.I actually may think about trying that.
And what you can do is goto you can go and have secret
KFC mum lunch, go and ordersome sicken pieces from KFC. You get

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to eat it nice and lovely,but you keep the chicken bones. That's
what you both. That's what youmake the bones for the feet out of.
If you just use the chicken withthings. Or I could go to
Yum char and get some chicken feet. Yeah, but you can't go too
hardcore because their chicken feet are actuallylike chicken size, not yeah, they're

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pretty big. Yeah, you'd almosthave you'd have to sort of go,
oh no, I see I French. The bone all nice and it's all
fancy, and you wrap the endin the alphaur like when they do the
hands and stuff like in the cartoons. Yeah, next time I come up,
we'll make baked budgie. You definitelyhave given me food for thought.

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Ah. Yeah, that's a dadjoke, isn't it? All right?
Let's move on to Monday, Decembereighteenth, nineteen eighty nine, Getting diary
it is. I went shopping todaywhere I purchased and received a few items.

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Have you bought the kita no O, I have not. I'm guessing
I went with mum. If I'msaying I received a few items, she's
probably bought some of this for mewhile we were out. Okay, some
of it I bought for myself.But I got a black velvet headband,

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well fancy, a cane basket randombut okay? Bath oils? Okay?
Is that? Is that an enjoyablething? Bath oils? Or I think
I might have got that as apresent for someone, possibly put it in

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the cane basket as a gift.My general question is bath oils at all?
It's like the last thing I'd wantto do is getting oily water.
It's really nice for your skin.They smell good. Okay, yeah,
all right, a plastic basket blackjelly beans that would most definitely have been

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a present for my mum. Okay, jelly beans. No, they but
she loves them, so she stilldoes. Does she still love black jelly
beans? Yeah? When's her birthday? October? Okay, should we do?
I've got access to one hundred literopen top drums. Do we give

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her one hundred jelly beans? Shewill forget through that. But she's the
type of person she'll eat one jellybean and like she'll go, Okay,
that's too sweet for me, Ican't have anymore. But she's also the
height of the person who will fallinto the one. It's just tall enough
that you won't notice it. Ilike, you know when people fall into

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grain silos. Yes, that's whatI thought. Maybe not must be a
little bit dangerous. Now that's somethingfor the news, breaking news. How
did she gorel of like jelly beans? Okay, yeah, okay, the

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coroner. The coroner's got his dayto day job and he's filling out all
these forms and drowned in a barrelof black jelly beans. Okay, this
is one for the wall and putsit on the fridge. In. Yeah.
I also got a coffee mug fluorescentundies surely for you. Yeah,

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probably hyper color or just fluorescent,just fluorescent. Okay, baby powder room
deodorant that would have been, youknow, like a magic mushroom or something
like that. Yeah, just tomake your rooms smell nice. Hair.
Spray a pen with my name onit to GIF for you, which was

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no doubt misspelled because you couldn't getmy particular spelling. But weren't you the
type of person who would mention thatit's not spelled correctly? No, I
was quite nice. I mean peopledidn't really have a choice because you couldn't
get things with my spelling on them, so they probably just thought this will

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do. Am I going to haveto get you a customized pen for Christmas
to make up for this trauma?Probably? Okay, I'll write it down.
I would never say notice stationary anyway, I know. I mean one
of the best guts I ever gaveyou was an Office Works gift card.
Yeah, the best. I alsogot the Countdown nineteen ninety diary that wasn't

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really a journaling, that was morelike a yeah, so just that you
write your appointments and stuff in.But it had music facts and musicians' birthdays
in it and stuff like that.Two Budgie books and my own copy they

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must and my own copy of Anneof Green Gables. Ah, so you
finally you finally got the book?Version? Is that a couple of books,
isn't there? Though? Oh there'stons. This would have been the
first one, and up until thispoint I whenever I wanted to read it,
I'd borrowed it from the library.Okay, but now I have my

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own. Nice do you still haveit? Not that particular one, but
a couple of years ago my husbandgot me the entire set, boxed set
of books for Christmas. Nice.I have them all now, excellent.
And that was my list of shoppinggoods. Then I just ended with love

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me. Okay, so hard topick apart what's presence for other people?
And what's you till you? Yeah? I know, the black velvet hair
band was for me? And whatwould have your mum bought you stuff like
this? Or she would have broughtme the room deodorant and the hairspray,

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okay, because that would have beenlike with the groceries and possibly the underwear
mum thing. But the rest Iwould have had to buy myself. But
what if she bought you the fancyfluo ones though? Yeah, yeah,
okay. Now I didn't usually askfor much when it came to clothes and
stuff, so if I saw somemondays and went, Mum, will you

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buy me these Flura undies would havegone, yeah, okay, you're not
gonna ask me what's for dinner?Are you? It's much prefer the under
question than the dinner question. Yeah, okay, all right, it's a
good little shopping list. And yeah, I mean the day before I was
like, hope things start to improveor else I'm going to be bored.

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And then I went shopping. Sothings did improve, Okay, they did
indeed. And then onto Tuesday,December nineteenth, nineteen eighty nine, Hi
diary, Cleo has gastritis and hairballsand she's not allowed to have anything to
eat until tomorrow. And reminder,that is a cat. That is a

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cat. Yep, Rachel, kim, Naomi and Shona are coming around on
Thursday and is staying the night.We're all bunking out in my room.
And they're humans. Yes, yeah, your cat having a very human name
requires this clarification. Yes, sothese are skating friends yep. Rachel,

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Kim, and Naomi are sisters,all three of them. Yes, okays,
just sisters. They're all like abouttwo years apart. Ye, and
Rachel was my age. We didn'tgo the same school, but we're in
the same grade. And Naomi andShona were best friends. So usually whatever

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the three sisters did would be withthem as well. And that's Mike's No,
Mike's whis Kimberly Okay? Yeah?So yeah, more fun plans.

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Auntie Glenda is leaving tomorrow morning.So I have not mentioned that she's arrived.
Apparently she has. I know.I did say in a previous entry
that she and Uncle Bert were comingfor Christmas, but maybe they changed plans.
If she's leaving, well, it'salso a singular thing. So did
Burt come up, did she haveto leave for a reason, or I

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don't know. She didn't drive sohe might have dropped her off and then
come back for her. Or someone'spicking her up and taking her back and
Bert staying around. Or today weare riding up to the high school to
play tennis. Maybe bikes yep,okay, not the imaginary horse Okay.

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No. I have some letters towrite and some other stuff to do,
so i'd better go, and beforeI forget, We're going out to Dragon
Palace for dinner tonight. Yum,yum. Fancy gonna say Chinese food.
Yep. Palace in the name alwaysquality, Yeah it was. This was
our favorite local Chinese restaurant, andusually whenever we had family come and stay,

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we would go. Okay, soit's the fancy Chinese restaurant, yes,
yep. Let me guess proprietor bigin the community. Sorry, big
in the community. The guy whoenned it, I can't remember. It's
always something I really took notice ofback then. It seemed to be particularly

(47:20):
in smaller towns. When they movedin. That was the sort of the
they became a big part of thecommunity because everyone would sort of that was
the meeting place or that was thefancy place to go. Yeah, it
was really popular. Yeah. Soyeah, yep. Anyway, I'd better
go, Your loving and faithful friendforever. No love for Nigel, No

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love for Nogel, didn't mention himtoday Thursday, December twenty first, nineteen
eighty nine. Dear Diary, andall of this is in capital letters.
Okay, but I'm not going toshout Okay, Holly Hobby tin roof,

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rusted down, Down Baby down downthe roller coaster. Sweet sweet, baby,
Sweet Sweet, don't let me go. Shimmy, shimmy, Coca nut,
Shimmy, shimmy Rock. Shimmy,shimmy, Coca nut, Shimmy,
shimmy Rock. I met a girlfrienda triscuit, she said, a trisc
It's a biscuit, ice cream,soda, pop, vanilla on the top.
Whoa Jannita walking down the street?Ten times a week? I read

(48:30):
it, I said it. Istole my mother's credit. I'm cool,
I'm hot. Sock me in thestomach three more times. Merry Christmas and
a Happy New Year. Isn't therea biscuit called a triscuit that we have
here? Yeah? Is that I'mthinking about it. It's something like that,
isn't it. You're probably thinking ofinner biscuit. I'm sure there's like

(48:52):
a even a chicken biscuit or oneof those crempy biscuits. To know,
would you like me to explain allof this. I'm going to say you
copied down lyrics. You were watchingsomething like Rage or something. Well,
this was the night that all thosegirls came and stayed over. Okay,

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so we went, well, Ithink we walked to the skating rink actually,
and went skating, and on theway we were just being very very
silly. We're talking about Holy Hobbybecause I had some Holy Hobby sheets and
we were laughing and joking about HolyHobby and how daggy holy hobby was.
Tin roof rusted is from Love ShackB fifty two's Yeap, and then the

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rhyme thing is from Big, themovie Big. The kids recite that in
that movie. So we'd watch thatat that day or whatever and learn that
off by heart, and we weresinging it all the way to the skating
rick. Okay, yeah, right, so that's what that's all about.

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And so yeah, it says MerryChristmas and a happy New Year. But
then we skip from December twenty firstto December twenty sixth. Okay, I
don't even know. No Christmas.Sorry, doesn't look like it, dear
Diary. Today I missed Nigel,and I really mean that. I think

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about him so often it's beginning tohurt. Wow. Serious. We hardly
know each other, yet we carefor each other so much. I'm sure
he's feeling the same way I doright now, I hope, But someday
soon we can get together and talkabout how each other's feeling. So if
you remember, Nigel lives a littlebit out of town, Yeah, we

(51:00):
couldn't really see each other outside ofthat, and he doesn't come skating off
and does he No, yep.I can't really look back at the good
and bad times because we weren't togetherthat long before school broke up. All
the love songs I hear remind meof him, all the happy ones,
because that's how I think of him, A little tune that will be in

(51:22):
my heart forever. Oh, Idon't think anybody would understand how I feel,
except maybe Nigel. I talked tohim on the phone nice. He
said he was wearing the chain Igave him, so that would have been
a Christmas present. Yeah, soit was a chain with a letter N

(51:45):
on it because he needed to bereminded of not yours. I think they
were like five dollars from came upthe cost of such like. That's like,
he should get you one with anend on it. You get him,

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hey, Nigel. Although that's probablywe've cracked the code. People couldn't
spell his name correctly because it hadsome weird silent letter to start with it,
which you nailed, and you gothim in like it was a double
end starting. So it was Nigeland you got him in end. And
that's what touched him so much.Is that the missing end in everyone else

(52:27):
that everyone misses the end except you. You've got me an end, Nigel,
Nigel. So he was wearing thechain I gave him. I was
sure he would my gift to him, my gift to show him my love,
fondness and care towards him. Buthe gave me the best gift of

(52:47):
all, the gift of happiness,joy, Okay, the gift of knowing.
He even meant shopping, you know, left school early to go shopping
and didn't get merried. That's whatI'm saying, Like, End's not for

(53:09):
Nigel, the end is for No'sLike no, I'm obviously trying to make
myself feel better here about not gettinga present, doing a lot of having
lifting for Nige here. So sohe's given me the gift of happiness,
the gift of joy, and thegift of knowing that at least one person

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I love is going to love meforever just as I will love them.
For an eternity, but not giveyou presents. Yeah, if anything ever
separates that love, I don't thinkI can love anyone else this way ever
again, she said for the eighteenthtime, Nigel, wherever you are,

(53:50):
even if you're far away, he'sprobably just at home. I want you
to know I love you and Ialways will you. Literally just talked on
the phone, yeah, with himhours ago in his home and he said
he was wearing this necklace with anand people say, what's the necklace from?
And he goes in for Nigel allright. Sunday, December thirty first,

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nineteen eighty nine. Dear Diary,it's the last day of December,
the last day of nineteen eighty nineand the last day of the eighties.
Okay, yeah, big, Hereare my new Year's resolutions. Here we
go. Okay. One, Iwill write in my diary every day and

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try to keep all my handwriting thesame. I used to swap styles of
handwriting constantly. M H, stilldo you Sometimes depends how I'm holding my
pen. Two. I will tryto excel in all subjects at school.

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Three. Okay, it's a weirdred a weird resolution phrasing, because you're
like yeah, you're supposed to.No. The resolution is like, no,
I'm going to suck at science,not like, hey, I'm going
to try and do the thing I'msupposed to do my best. Yeah.
Yeah. Three. I will neverin capital letters drop Nigel, and I'll

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do anything also in capital letters forhim, even if it includes in capital
letters sex. Okay, Okay,remember a couple of weeks ago you were
a bit iffy about not wanting toswear anymore. Okay, So now we're

(55:57):
on the bang Nage train. Okay, yep, followed up by number four.
Well, here we go. Thecringe on the on the on your
shoulders tells me this is going tobe great. I am let me get
comfortable. I am prepared. Okay, I'll try and follow God's commandments and
same morning and evening press. Okay, is that before or after you bang

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Nige? That's what the n onthe That's what the nd on the on
the thing was. It wasn't forNigel, it was nail me. Maybe
you shouldn't have got him an end, maybe you should have got him a
D or something. I don't know. I think I'm wanting the D.
Yeah, No, that's what youwere getting in the end and he he

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was supposed to give you the dneck case. Instead I got nothing,
You got end nothing. Yes,And finally number five, Okay, I'm
going to bang a bloke, butbe nice to God. But okay,
number five, let's go. Numberfive. I will tend to my animals
every day and make sure they arecomfortable, have the right amounts of food

(57:07):
and water, and best of all, I'll smother them in love. It's
not much of a resolution because Ikind of already do that. And also
just like be nice to my animalsgoes after God and some do goes before
God. All it could have beenlike, I'll look after my pets,

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love God. Number five really wantto now, Happy New Year. I
love you, Nigel. Wherever youmay be not sure again, please come
and see me. I've got thelock and you've got the key. We're

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getting into that cringe area, aren'tWe unlock the lock and love will flow
forever and ever. And also totechnically, he's got the key and you've
got the lock, and he willput the key in your lock and unlock
it. But although look, Idon't know what you were into at that
age, you might have been inthat reversing type of mood. You need

(58:13):
to stop. You just put bangin some thirteen year old bloke ahead of
God and your animals and gave ita necklace. And you're like, no,
don't talk to me about switching up. And you're the one who set
the agenda here. We don't needto go into details because you want to

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go into night. Kiss me andhug me, and best of all,
love me, for I will returnall the caresses and passionate kisses that are
laid upon me. Yes, seepoint number four for more details. I
love you Nigel with all my heart. Even if you don't think the same,
I still do. You can't stopme feeling this way, and I

(58:54):
hope you don't want to stop me. That sounds little like fail attraction.
I'm going to love you, whetheryou want me to or not. Okay,
all right, well, interestingish,I finished? Okay, Remember have

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a happy new year, a happytime always, and the most important thing
to remember and cherish with your wholeheart and soul. Nigel, Oh,
darling, Nigel, Nigel, Ilove you. Hm hm, That's how

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I ended my nineteen eighty nine.Do we know the status of Kent?
How did he finish news. Idon't know. Maybe in his pool potentially,
you never know, he could behaving pool parties every week. He

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could and I wouldn't know because I'mthat home pining over Nagel. No,
I'm saying to this day, dowe know who owns like, what's the
big pool company one with the elephant? Uh? There's a big pool brand
with an elephant. It's annoying me. It's now now annoying me to the

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Googles. You're gonna have to it'snot worth it. Is it going to
be a pool with elephants in it? Well, the ad had elephants in
it. Pools. I think Iremember the ad now because it was always
on at the drive ins. Thatwas one of the ads. That was

(01:00:44):
blue Haven Pools. That's what itwas. Maybe can't start at blue Haven
Pools? And you were the inspiration. Do you know what? Mm hmm,
it still exists. I still seeit. Ah, Okay, I
haven't not for a long time.Do they still use elephants in there?

(01:01:08):
Yeah? The logo is still theBlue Hame my goodness. So they do
well well that it's a it's aslight variation of the elephant, but it's
still the elephant, still the elephantat the drive and I always remember the
blue Haven Pools. Then blue HavenPools. If you're listening and you want

(01:01:29):
to sponsor us, hit us up. We'll give you the kids special.
Yeah. So will I keep myNew Year's resolutions? Well? Take beds?
Or maybe I mean, how hownot PG does nineteen ninety get?

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Well, we're gonna have to waitand see. Okay, all right,
Okay, that's it. It's bythe look on your face that could that
could be exciting or you're setting meup for more disappointment because it is Nigel
going to break in my heart orwe don't know. You'll have to wait

(01:02:12):
to see to give anything away,all right, bestI. Well, I
hope everyone enjoyed this nineteen ninety eightjourney and nineteen eighty nine nineteen what did
I say? Eighty eight? Okay? Sorry, nineteen eighty nine journey And
we will be back next week withthe nineteen nineties and the romance of Nigel

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with an end And let everyone knowabout the Instagram before we go. Well,
you have an Instagram account at Diaryof my Bestie and we would love
it if you would give us afollow. Come and have a chat with
us, ask us questions, justgenerally join in the fun. And if
you're Nigel, hit us up.Hit us up. If you can't give

(01:02:58):
us a pool special, yeah Ineed to get a new barbecue. Sol
hit him up and say, hey, can you Bunning's warehouse? So all
right, well we will see everyonenext week. See your best, will
Bye bye.