By SANDY McKAY
Luckily, at this point, corduroy jacket becomes distracted as a group of students, with painted faces, wearing blue and yellow wigs, start chanting."O-taaaaa-go-"
Phew! Mum would have gone on forever. The is bad enough.
"I wish my mum was like that," my friend Eric says."I don't think she's watched a game of rugby in her life. Not properly, anyway. Not the whole way through."
Obviously he doesn't understand what it's like having a mother like mine. A mother who wears tops that don't tuck in so she can show off her pierced belly button. A mother who changes her hair colour every week and thinks petticoats go on top of jeans instead of under skirts.
Having a mother like that isn't as easy as it looks. Especially when you're a twelve-year-old and fond of blending into the background.
Publisher: Longacre Press
Price: $14.95
Age group: 9-13 years
My Dad, the All Black: Part 3
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