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Hugamuga, Parenting

When to let your teenager off the leash

Today is Hugamuga’s Independence Day.

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This is Hugamuga in 2002, a somewhat younger version – aged 8, I wouldn’t have let him go alone at this age. 🙂

Today, he met his friends on the train, travelled to Adventure World (two trains and a bus), enjoyed the day with his mates and returned home. He was responsible for organising himself, his money and his lunch. I did ask that he ring me when he left home so I knew he was on the road (and could begin worrying). He’s 13.

It was a scheme dreamed up by his friends at school. This one mate worked out the plan and invited his classmates and then whoever showed up showed up. Four showed up.

They had a blast. Roaming Adventure World in a little pack. I asked Hugamuga:

“So is it more fun with there with his mates or his family” (we go every year for a work Christmas party)
“Oh with my family of course!”
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“Definitely with my mates!”

Yeah right.

My heart was in my mouth. Sure it’s just a mum cutting another of the apron strings (guffaws of laughter from friends imagining me wearing an apron), another step towards independence… but it was a milestone.

Not that I wrap the kids in cotton wool. I’ve let them walk to the corner shop on their own for years. I encourage them to walk to school, to their friends houses. Hugamuga rides his bike to training on his own…

Two trains and a bus.

W00t.

Fashion Victim, Modern Life

What are rashies?

River asks following my last post: “What are rashies?” I wrote a reply in comments but since a picture really is a thousand words I thought I’d illustrate with a couple of pics.

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Now you’ll note that the children in this photo look quite young – that’ll be because these photos were taken in 2002 – 5 years ago. In those days my boardies fit and I wore skin tight rashies… 🙂

Anyway you probably get the idea.

I really don’t know why I stressed out about tight fitting boardies and my muffin top breaking loose. Once there we were treated to a great number of fashion victims people who just didn’t care.

Part of me was rejoicing. “You go girlfriend!” I thought Marcia-style as a woman who as a clear muu muu candidate chose instead to wear a bikini, sat eating her lunch not 20 metres away.

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At this point you are probably fairly pointing out that the kettle may be calling the pot indigenous. And it would be a fair point.

Then we noticed another lady who had obviously come straight from the office. She was wearing a knee length skirt, a singlet and one of those little V-necked tops with three quarter sleeves and the ties that go round the back. Down the Aqua Racer! Of course she might have thought to herself that she wasn’t going to go swimming but was tempted by all the fun we were having and decided WTF I’m just going to swim in my clothes.

But perhaps she tried on her boardies that morning – like me – and found they were a little snug. Maybe she went down to her local surfshop – like me – and the shop assistants were so unhelpful she thought “fuck that I’m just going to wear my smart casual clothes to Adventure World”. Maybe.

The blokes of course don’t care at all.

 

Family

Surf shop boycott!

Today we had our annual social club Kids Christmas Party at Adventure World.  Always a good day out this represents the reason I pay my weekly two dollars to the work social club as it is such good value.  I pay $15 a ticket… normally adults pay $42 and kids $34… a saving of $92.  And it is only the one function.  Bargain!

Over the years we have got this outing down to a fine art.  Rashies, hats and sunblock for everyone.  Towels.  Seats for adults (because). One bag with lunch consisting of 3 baguettes filled with various fillings chopped into thirds.  One large container of drink.  And if the temperature is below 30C, light jumpers – hey that Freo doctor can get cold you know.  Today’s maximum was 23.  IMHO just a tad on the cool side for swimming but I digress.

Now. I’ve been a bit slack this year on the exercise front and I’ll admit that I’m not at my most svelte so I needed to upgrade the boardies and rashie which – to be honest – were a little snug.

So I got up early to pick up the baguettes from the Kirkwood Deli and then popped by the local surfshop for a quick browse.

The surf shop is big.  It’s like a supermarket sized surfshop.  There are racks and racks of bikinis, boardies and rashies not to mention several different brands of thongs (the ones you wear on your feet), a large selection of sunglasses and all manner of other surfing and social paraphernalia (gee whiz that’s a big word… had to look up the spelling).

But could I find anything remotely attractive to try on?  Attractive on me??  No.  Nothing.

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“Ah no actually.  I’m looking for a pair of boardies – to the knee would be great and would you happen to have a rashie that isn’t quite so skin-tight?”

“Yeah well those are the boardies” – he said pointing to the rack I was standing next to full of microshorts, “and all the rashies are tight.  That’s how they make them. Maybe you should get a tee-shirt.”

“Great” I muttered.  Resentfully.  No helpful suggestions there.  Silently screaming – couldn’t you please HELP ME?  Surely there must be something for the slightly overweight, over 40, want to spend some time with my kids in the sun mum?

But no.  There isn’t.

I did find a nice tee-shirt though.