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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda gam Nation. Now that both boys aren't

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Speaker 1: living at home and they last year Jack was living

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Speaker 1: on campus, but that didn't feel like he left home.

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Speaker 1: He had to a certain extent, but only we had

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Speaker 1: to come home for Uni holidays and all that kind

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Speaker 1: of stuff. But now he's living in a flat, so

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Speaker 1: this is slightly more permanent. So there's a room in

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Speaker 1: our house. We don't have a very big house, and

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Speaker 1: there's a room in our house that has morphed into

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Speaker 1: a number of things over the years. When the kids

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Speaker 1: were little, when we first bought the house, that was

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Speaker 1: the We bought it from an old lady who'd lived

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Speaker 1: in there since the nineteen thirties or something. That had

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Speaker 1: been the lounge room her dining rooms. So there's a

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Speaker 1: fireplace in there, and we'd sort of put it, made

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Speaker 1: it playroom into it, I guess because I was pregnant

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Speaker 1: when we bought the house. And so when the kids

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Speaker 1: were little, that was there was a TV in there,

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Speaker 1: and it was always toys and blocks and blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: And then it became a hangout room for the boys

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Speaker 1: and the computer games and things. And then it's a

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Speaker 1: room that Len used to study for his HSC. I

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Speaker 1: don't know why Jack didn't do the same. Jack studied

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Speaker 1: in his own room. I think he did it in

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Speaker 1: his own time. But so it was a study area.

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Speaker 1: And now that the boys have gone, and there was

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Speaker 1: a fold out bed and you know that kind of

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Speaker 1: stuff in there, I thought, I've never had a space

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Speaker 1: of my own in the house. Harley has an office

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Speaker 1: and there's a front room that also has a thing

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Speaker 1: that the boys can play computer games in. And Harley's

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Speaker 1: moved some exercise equipment in there, and he's now got

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Speaker 1: a car simulator, a computer card game thing. That's so

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Speaker 1: he's got a variety of rooms in the house. So

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Speaker 1: I thought it's time for me to have one. Because

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Speaker 1: I wrote an entire book just sitting at the dining

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Speaker 1: table took me ages. Kids there's one morning where a

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Speaker 1: football was being thrown back and forth over my head

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Speaker 1: as I'm trying to meet a deadline. So I thought,

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Speaker 1: this room can be my sitting room. I can either

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Speaker 1: read in my sitting room or sit in my reading room.

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Speaker 1: It can go either way. So I've cleared a lot

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Speaker 1: of the boys stuff out, which means there's still a

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Speaker 1: wall mounted TV that I don't need in there that

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Speaker 1: can go somewhere, but a big Michael Jordan picture on

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Speaker 1: the wall that's gone under Liam's bed. So all the boys, germs,

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Speaker 1: the textbooks that were still everywhere, cleared it all out,

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Speaker 1: and I've put a table in the middle with the

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Speaker 1: vasa flowers on it, and a cumfy chair in the

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Speaker 1: corner and a lava lamp from talking about your generation,

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Speaker 1: This fantastic lava lamp I've got, and a nice light,

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Speaker 1: and I like the idea of sitting in there to read.

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Speaker 1: So last night I got like a sitting room, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like a Mike Brady did. Yeah, well, everyone else seems

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Speaker 1: to have one in the house except for me, and

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Speaker 1: it's only Harley and me now. And so last night

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Speaker 1: I felt a bit bad because Harley's out watching TV,

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Speaker 1: and I said, do you mind if I sit in

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Speaker 1: my in the sitting room? And I said, I'm feel

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Speaker 1: a bit bad because whenever I'm out there in the

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Speaker 1: kitchen doing things and he's in his office, I said, well,

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Speaker 1: why did you come and sit out here with me?

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Speaker 1: So I drag him out. And then last night when

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Speaker 1: I said do you mind if I sit in there?

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Speaker 1: I said no, I understand entirely, meaning I don't want

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Speaker 1: to be out here either. When you're out here. You

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Speaker 1: know he doesn't mean that. But we all like to

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Speaker 1: have our own time and space, don't we. So I

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Speaker 1: felt selfish sitting in my own little room after dinner

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Speaker 1: reading my book. So you sat there in the room,

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Speaker 1: read TV or anything. No, I read a book, I

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Speaker 1: read a magazine. I read a book. Oh, blah, blah blah.

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Speaker 1: What work is there to do? What work is there

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Speaker 1: to do on a Sunday night. It's an office, you're

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Speaker 1: in this business. No, it's my sitting room. Oh now

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Speaker 1: you're putting pressure on me. If I go in there,

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Speaker 1: I have to work, do work. That's what they're the

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Speaker 1: rooms for. No, it's it's it's a it's a MySpace.

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Speaker 1: If I wanted to sit in there and do decapage,

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Speaker 1: if I want to sit in there and skin animals alive,

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Speaker 1: I can because it's my space and I'll do what

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Speaker 1: I like. It's it's not a know you've jinxed it.

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Speaker 1: I know you've wrecked it. It's not a workspace. It's

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Speaker 1: a pleasure space. Okay, right, okay, now you've made it

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Speaker 1: sound weird. You're in the east, and so I wish

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Speaker 1: plenty of people, with a room designed for the plea.

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Speaker 1: There is obviously a fireman pole, of course, in case

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Speaker 1: there's a fire. Of course, you've wrecked everything. I wish

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Speaker 1: I'd never mentioned it would kill you to do some

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Speaker 1: work