My Mum's Bad Diaries

We talk about how we both think that kids should just eat the food the parents are eating, that they shouldn't have separate meals, and then also talk about tween Lily

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Content note: more talk about food and diets

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In this episode we find ourselves back in June 1983, and Mum is back from Sydney. The big news is she's moving into a house in nice Camberwell with Grandd…

We're back after a long hiatus so thanks for waiting for us! In this episode we have a few complaints (podcasting platform Riverside; the NGV's current exhibition of the impressionists out of Boston.…

*** Content note: mention of hard drug use; violence

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Part 2, following on from episode 7.

It's early May 1983 as Mum reads on from her diary. She wakes from another late night with a wrecked throat (n…

What is Dramione, you may ask? If you don't know - and it's reasonable that you don't - it's a mix of Draco (Malfoy) and Hermione (Granger) from Harry Potter. And Dramione is specifically a genre of …

Here we are with Episode 7, part 1 of a 2-part recording on a Friday in early May. Yes we're a bit behind but will be catching up soon! We know how important it is for people to be hearing our curren…

In 1983, Victorian pubs didn't have pint glasses, it was just a glass or a pot. Who knew? Not me.

This is part 2 of the previous recording, where Mum just carries on reading her diary from 1983. It's …

This is part 1 of this recording session, with part 2 (Episode 6) to follow in a fortnight.

We start our chat with a catch up on Life: but I start out by saying how good mum is at Garage Band, and she…

Enormous warning about SPOILERS. But if you've seen the second season of SEVERANCE, listen in and see whether you agree with Mum or me, as we disagree on several points!

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Content note carries over from the first part, which was Ep 3 (food, weight, eating, diets etc)

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Welcome to the second part of the diary reading, where Mum continues on with her 1983 life. She cooks a…

What can we say. We hate watched some episodes. Those of you who know us know we don't love the Meghan. 

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While MAFS was one of grandad's shows, we'd never watched it until recently! Here's our chat about it, after pounding through most of the episodes within a week.

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Content warning: LOTS of food and body and weight talk. Also a lot of jacket talk.

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Mercury is in retrograde and we're grumpy, but we make it work!! I talk bone brother and village soup recipes while …

Content note: food talk, exercise talk, weight talk

Apologies the sound quality is NOT GREAT... back to our normal crystal-clear audio next episode!

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It's 1983, still Feb and we both Mum and Bret Easto…

Content note: diets, food and weight.

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It's the first episode of season 4 and this one is all about noodles, breakfast of champions for the young back in 1983. 

It's February 1983, mum is staying with …

We continue our Boxing Day bed-chat with an up-to-date missive from Haworth, epicentre of Bronte Country. We talk about our visit to the Parsonage Museum, the church where Patrick Bronte was the mini…

We're in the UK. lying in bed on Boxing Day after a big lunch yesterday, lots of British Bake Off, and -- believe it or not -- church and needle point.

How very Bronte of us.

We are in fact in Haworth,…

Simon is gone and Mum’s trying not to write about him in her diary! 

So she plays guitar and goes to see bands, and of course watches TV – The Partridge Family, Gidget, Young Doctors and Rock Around t…

This is part 3, and we’re straight into the reading (continuing on from last episode). 

It's a short episode 22, and Mum is in a shit with Granddad though it’s unclear what about. She tries to drive t…

We learn a lot about stone in this episode!

This is part 1 of a mega recording push, with part 2 to publish on 19 December and part 3, well we'll publish that on the same day as part 2. Why not, it's …