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Speaker 2: This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. The reason why
Speaker 2: I know it's five weeks away from Christmas because I
Speaker 2: know that today is November the eighteenth. My youngest daughter,
Speaker 2: Lois is nineteen today birthday.
Speaker 1: Lois said goodbye to good night to her last night.
Speaker 2: I was I cannot believe that when I see you today,
Speaker 2: you need nineteen years old, and you know Alex and Pats,
Speaker 2: you guys have got kids.
Speaker 1: It goes so quick. I remember her being born. It
Speaker 1: was a home birth.
Speaker 2: It's a very unusual kind of birth to be part of,
Speaker 2: wildly exciting and wildly terrifying as well, because you're at home.
Speaker 2: This is like this should be in a hospital. Note
Speaker 2: I shouldn't be a significant part of this, you know.
Speaker 2: And at one point it all started to go very quickly,
Speaker 2: and rang this midwife that we'd hired would come and
Speaker 2: be part of it, who is trained and if anything happened,
Speaker 2: could deal with it.
Speaker 1: And so she was like, I'm in traffic.
Speaker 2: There's a high chance that Lois is going to come
Speaker 2: before I get there.
Speaker 1: It was just me and Sarah, and I remember just
Speaker 1: whispering to that I can't happen.
Speaker 2: Just the skill set I have is flimsy at best,
Speaker 2: and it isn't delivering babies. It's just it was just
Speaker 2: so scarce responsibility. Ever, it's a child. She did make
Speaker 2: it there and that now it's the time. But anyway,
Speaker 2: I was just last night, I was rapping all the
Speaker 2: presents and it's funny how in the relationship you just
Speaker 2: have roles and you never discuss them being given out.
Speaker 2: You just kind of like morph into who does what
Speaker 2: for certain things. And I sort of realized that I've
Speaker 2: always been the person that gets the presence and wraps
Speaker 2: them in our family. That's the way it's always been.
Speaker 2: I absolutely love getting the presence. I love wrapping them.
Speaker 2: It makes me so excited. Anyway, I was doing Lewis's
Speaker 2: card yesterday. We don't use our handwriting pay often now,
Speaker 2: do we No, Almost never. We're on our phones typing
Speaker 2: all everything out. Everything is typed out auto. It suddenly
Speaker 2: now when you got to fill out a card, I
Speaker 2: get really anxious.
Speaker 1: Act she was getting. I get performance anxiety. Same when
Speaker 1: you have to.
Speaker 2: Put that squiggle on the back of the credit card.
Speaker 2: The no one checks anymore? Why is that still there?
Speaker 2: Tap and go? It's irrelevant. Why we got no one
Speaker 2: goes and hang on a second, do it again? Do
Speaker 2: it five times? You used to have that signature to
Speaker 2: do it, people would actually examine it, whereas now no
Speaker 2: one cares, do they?
Speaker 1: No, no one? You're right, and then ask for other
Speaker 1: forms of our day too.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's it. So anyway, I'm filling out this card yesterday,
Speaker 2: and I'd spent about an hour writing a poem. I've
Speaker 2: never done this before. I thought, I'm going to do
Speaker 2: something with a different I'm going to write a poet about him.
Speaker 2: When she was a very young girl, I used to
Speaker 2: call a little ray. If you've met my daughter Lowis,
Speaker 2: she's she's like a ball of energy, okay, and so
Speaker 2: she was like this, just constant ray of energy.
Speaker 1: So I still called a little ray. So I thought,
Speaker 1: I'm going to write a poem about little Rain.
Speaker 2: And what's happened to little Ray who's now you know Lois,
Speaker 2: who's nineteen today today Little Ray.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to tell how hard it is to
Speaker 1: write poetry.
Speaker 2: It's like, really and then once you start with the
Speaker 2: rhyming thing and little ray and nineteen today, I was like,
Speaker 2: I don't have any other rhyming words, and why have
Speaker 2: you started this work?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm halfway through this. The rhyming has ended.
Speaker 1: Now it's just like a speech of some sort in couplets.
Speaker 4: You should have started with an acrostic poem like l
Speaker 4: L is full. No no no no heid.
Speaker 2: No no no no no no no no no no.
Speaker 2: I remember last year when they want to do something
Speaker 2: at the funeral and part of the eulogy, and I said,
Speaker 2: some of them, daughters, why don't you got together and
Speaker 2: do something for y Nana, for Jackie Jay, for Joyce. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: that's what lame people do.
Speaker 1: If I then go happy nineteenth. Oh you did use
Speaker 1: that idea? Then help? I love you. Anyway, This poem is.
Speaker 2: Taken forever and I'm like, why do I even blood
Speaker 2: start this? She's going to read through and ditch the car.
Speaker 2: Just start open the Mecca stuff. Anyways, it gains the
Speaker 2: last line. I've done it. I screwed up the handwriten.
Speaker 2: I misspelt something well and I was using a fountain pen.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and I put a line through it and
Speaker 2: then it was just this ugly splurch and I was like,
Speaker 2: I have to go and by.
Speaker 3: Nothing, I had to go out to a servo doing
Speaker 3: servos and I can only describe as it screams, servo card,
Speaker 3: servo card.
Speaker 2: They're so generic. What human is this for? There's nothing
Speaker 2: relevant to Lois.
Speaker 1: She's going to know where'd you get this card? Oh wait,
Speaker 1: there's a poem in here.
Speaker 2: So I then had to go back again, now even
Speaker 2: more nervous, to copy out this poem again by hand.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you've got to do a test one on a
Speaker 4: just like a random piece of paper, and then maybe
Speaker 4: you can graduate using handwriting.
Speaker 1: Isn't it at the end a shake up? It's a skill.
Speaker 2: I should have got someone on their tip while I
Speaker 2: dictating my perment to write down who's got a pen license?
Speaker 2: Because when I moved here to Australia, I organized you've
Speaker 2: all got pen licensees.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was like the best day of my life.
Speaker 1: I still remember.
Speaker 4: It's so clearly year five mister Lee's class. When I
Speaker 4: finally got it after failing a few times, and you
Speaker 4: get this laminated little piece of green license joking like
Speaker 4: a driver's license like a driver's license. I think I
Speaker 4: still have it at home. It's my pride and joy.
Speaker 2: So you've got yours, you pass first time? Pahts, you've
Speaker 2: got a maculate handwriting. I have.
Speaker 1: I haven't got the bit of paper, but it's funny.
Speaker 2: I found Audrey's the other day.
Speaker 4: I picked up a book and it sort of fell
Speaker 4: out of the book from when she was I don't
Speaker 4: know what grade would have we been.
Speaker 1: You thought you were grade five? Yeah, mine was grade five?
Speaker 2: Okay, oh that was late.
Speaker 1: Yeah, run great.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's the handwrite. I think it's those
Speaker 2: eyes of yours. Rio has really bad eyes. So if
Speaker 2: I ever go hey, can you ever quit?
Speaker 1: Look and Google?
Speaker 2: I can see him panic. He actually holds the laptop
Speaker 2: up to like a time traveler. Who a thousand years old?
Speaker 2: We do, and you're a thirty. So that with the
Speaker 2: worst eye sights I've ever known for anyone. It's like
Speaker 2: a mold who's coming out of as a WHOOPI hole.
Speaker 2: I think that's just why you had to do it.
Speaker 2: A couple of topics. Did you pass it first time?
Speaker 1: Alex? I have no recollection of a pen license. I
Speaker 1: don't think they have farm kids. They don't get them
Speaker 1: to do them, you.
Speaker 4: Know how license Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: If you lucky. I don't think the far reaches original
Speaker 1: in yourself. Well, I don't think they had pen licenses, so.
Speaker 2: We don't have them. Don't have them in the UK.
Speaker 2: Handwriting is something, it's a basic. It's not something we
Speaker 2: need to be rewarded with some kind of certificate a license.
Speaker 2: It's not a big day in your life because it's
Speaker 2: a basic that you can write.
Speaker 4: I think it is just the very Australian thing where
Speaker 4: you need a license for everything, like you can't do
Speaker 4: anything in this country.
Speaker 1: It's so much bureacracy in this country.
Speaker 4: Even for small children to use a pen has to
Speaker 4: go through some red tape.
Speaker 2: You're right the myth of no worries. There are more
Speaker 2: worries here than there are in the UK, with red
Speaker 2: tip and licenses for everything in permits.
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