It’s hard to explain

Who puts a lock on the inside of a shoebox-sized laundry door? I am very unhappy with them.

My dogs sleep in the laundry and somehow the lock – that I didn’t know existed – was activated, so my day started with the dogs being trapped in there. I eventually got them out after a combination of shoulder charging (pointless) and frantic wrestling.

And things just got crazier from there, which is saying sonething considering how my life rolls.

It is difficult to put yesterday into words.

Following the trapped dog incident, I walked the little fur monsters and then went to work, just like any other day.

The youngest finally woke up mid-morning and confirmed she got an ATAR, but wouldn’t tell me what it was. And I will explain why getting an ATAR was a very big deal another day, because that ended up being a blip in the WTF-ness of it all.

At 10am I put on headphones to listen to the Court of Criminal Appeal deliver its judgment on Kathleen Folbigg’s application to have her sentences quashed.

Led by Chief Justice Andrew Bell, the Court’s verdict was that all Kathleen’s convictions be quashed and she be acquitted.

Bell noted that in light of submissions filed by Kathleen and the Crown there was no purpose in having a hearing before it made its decision.

Kathleen held the hand of our friend Tracy Chapman and was surrounded by supporters as the judgement was delivered. She wiped away tears and the public gallery broke into a standing ovation.

I felt sad not to have been there for that.

It was hard listening while at work because I felt pretty emotional hearing the unemotional judge make his pronouncement. There may have been workplace tears.

They were followed by workplace panic when I realised the youngest didn’t have a referral for her 11.15am adolescent pediatrician appointment. Cue panic stations and frantic phone calls.

And then I went to the dentist. Not the flim-flam dentist who said I needed to spend $3000 replacing all my fillings, my regular dentist who said she was keeping an eye on my fillings and they would need to be replaced at some point but not yet.

I hiked back to the office in the intense heat, pausing to buy an outrageously overpriced box of char kway teow noodles from a Ho Jiak pop-up in The Rocks because I’m worth it … and it was too hot to shop around.

And because nothing is straightforward in my life, a gust of wind toppled a giant street planter, restaurant umbrella, tables and a recycling bin just as I was walking past and I almost died …. Not really, but it was a shock to have it crash down less than a metre from me.

After work I finally got to give Kath a hug. It was a VERY surreal night involving too much Portuguese wine.

And now, as my dear friend Tracy quotes from the beloved movie Babe, “That’ll do”.

Bless you Tracy and best wishes Kath. What an incredible day and thank you for sharing last night with me.

For the rundown on the Kathleen Folbigg court stuff including her full statement, click here.

I am still processing it all, but concur with the Babe reference.

PS Wow it freaks me out how much I look like my Nan in that photo.

Song of the day: George Michael “Freedom”