At 7pm on the 27th October 1998, I was several hours off becoming a mother. Being a first-time mother and everything being quite s-l-o-w, I was hopeful that it wasn’t as far away as it actually was. In reality, I wouldn’t be ready to push until 2am. I was using water in labour, some …
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Put… the … smartphone … down
You know the time has come to go off-line when your fingers are itching to send the response “spoil sport” to the Health bureaucrat’s email politely requesting that you don’t include LGBTI in the client survey form. Especially when that impulse is accompanied by uncontrollable public giggling. It is Melbourne time, and past time to …