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Speaker 1: This is gem nation. We'd say about my girls weekend, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: how was your girls weekend? Asking? Thank you for asking.

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Speaker 1: I have an annual girls weekend. We're a group of us.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes there's nine. This year there are only six because

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Speaker 1: one had COVID, one had work commitments in Melbourne, and

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Speaker 1: one was in New Zealand. But so six of us

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Speaker 1: got together at this fantastic little guest house on the

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Speaker 1: duck Malloy River near Oberon. It was freezing. I can

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Speaker 1: tell you that even if we've gone at this time

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Speaker 1: of year before, it's never been this cult It was freezing,

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Speaker 1: but gee, it's great. We're stay in an old sort

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Speaker 1: of it's like an old farmhouse with open fires. Luckily

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Speaker 1: one of us is a Canadian and a paramaniac, so

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Speaker 1: she lights the fires. But it was it was really great.

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Speaker 1: And you know, we are I think the Sandwich generation.

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Speaker 1: And that's what we all talk about, is that our age.

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Speaker 1: So it's Sandwiches. No, we're between you know, some in

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Speaker 1: the earlier fifties, some in sort of earlier sixties. So

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Speaker 1: we are the generation that has parents, we're looking after

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Speaker 1: partners who are aging kids, going through challenges, us with

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Speaker 1: our own health challenges us at a different phase where

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Speaker 1: your kids have left home, wondering what happens next, very

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Speaker 1: interesting and challenging time, I think for all of us.

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Speaker 1: So a weekend like this we really fill each other up.

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Speaker 1: We are very very tight unit. And at one point,

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Speaker 1: you know, we held hands and we vowed to look

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Speaker 1: out for each other and to look after each other.

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Speaker 1: As we know, we cry a little and hold hands

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Speaker 1: and say I love you, I will always be here

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Speaker 1: for you. And then of course that became yeah, of course,

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Speaker 1: and then that became who would wipe each other's bottoms

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Speaker 1: when we were older, and Elizabeth, who's the youngest, was

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Speaker 1: deemed to be the bottom wiper. She wasn't happy with it,

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Speaker 1: but then it became high planned that we'd set her

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Speaker 1: up in a van and should go from home to

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Speaker 1: home servicing our bottoms like your local gym. Like a

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Speaker 1: local gym. That's right. But we had a great weekend,

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Speaker 1: which and so we all take food because there's no

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Speaker 1: restaurants and stuff nearby. You take everything we need and

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Speaker 1: it's like a precision of ants. When we arrive, the

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Speaker 1: bottles get taken inside, the food gets put in the

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Speaker 1: free That's exactly how I pictured it, and then when

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Speaker 1: I dropped Anita home yesterday opened the car. The cars

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Speaker 1: filled with stuff for unpacking it all bottle of oil

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Speaker 1: has lost its lead, vegetable oil all through the bottom

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Speaker 1: of my car. And I think, who's adult that's going

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Speaker 1: to deal with this? Well, well, Anita and took and

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Speaker 1: her husband because he was there when a unpacking took

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Speaker 1: the stuff out. We wiped it down. But when I

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Speaker 1: got home, Harley had to take the plastic out of

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Speaker 1: the rubber out of the bottom of my current hose

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Speaker 1: it out. That's Elizabeth's job. But it was. But it

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Speaker 1: was a fantastic weekend. And I think if you have

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Speaker 1: a gaggle of friends that get together, I don't know

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Speaker 1: what the boys' weekends are like this. We just talk

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Speaker 1: about all the deep and stupid stuff and you come

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Speaker 1: back feeling completely filled up. We all hold hands and cry.

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Speaker 1: Don't mock us, Brendan, it's the stuff of life. Of

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Speaker 1: course it is. Of course it is good.