GAIL WHETTERS
um shaped me, just from her pure grace and patience. She certainly passed the patient stick on to me, which is a blessing, but I also learnt to curb it. Sometimes patience really doesn’t help you or the people around you. My mum is really open and she accepts the world in this great, open way and I love that she’s not at all jaded. She always takes people. My mum’s like mum but at the same time she has this undercurrent of craziness. I remember saying to her, “Mum, what do you want to do?” and she said, “I want to have a pie fight.” So she came home with all these pie bases from Woolies with shaving cream and weird decorations and we made all these pies. Then we went out in the backyard and we had a pie fight. I remember thinking that this is my true mum.
