My Mum's Bad Diaries

Content note: mention of sexual assault

It’s still January 1983 and we wonder: skin diving – is it a thing?

We continue straight on with part 2 of the reading, continuing from last episode.

There’s more…

This is part 1 of this recording, with part 2 publishing in a fortnight. 

We start off with a Lily travelogue update including a Britboy update, also a Jenny riding – and falling – update 

And then we’…

In this segment from our 8JUN record, Lily tells us a bit more about britboy. Does he see her as a pocket girlfriend, or is it her who sees him as a pocket bf? These are only some of the questions Je…

** Content note: a bit of weight talk

It's another side chat and it's all TV... we talk Kardashians, ozempic, the crab theory, and choosing unsuitable people. There's a BritBoy update along with more …

*** Content note: mention of suicide

We’re back to diaries and it’s late December 1982… Jenny has a new-found ambition to be a ‘successful musician’ (because she learned some chords), and to get a job…

Content note: mention of EDs and weight

We catch up with Lily’s reading, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, SPOILERS obvs but it was published yonks ago, unbanned also yonks ago, so we don’t feel responsible fo…

In this catch up, Lily dials in from Ortigia, Sicily to talk about having deliberate alone time, needing to find the balance between being with people and being on her own in a mindful way. There's a…

In this recent recording from last week, we chat about Lily's housesitting for 10 days in the wonderful English countryside. Horses fish birds vegies flowers summer heat and a feral cat, as well as a…

Content note: fat talk, food talk, beauty talk

In this episode, Lily learns what it means to have a bad fringe.

Starting off, we have a Lily update and catch up where she’s at in the world, her filler/…

Content note: racially insensitive language, body and weight talk, food talk

 And we're straight into reading: it’s 28 November 1982 

J is working at St Kilda Road, on the general ledger

J and L still …

It’s 24 November 1982 and there were all types of spaghetti restaurants: Tree, Theatre and Graffiti!

We go to the Seaview Ballroom in St Kilda, to see Allniters, INXS, Soldiers of Fortune and No Nonse…

** Content warning: brief mention of self harm/cutting



This is part 1 of this recording session; next episode publishes in two weeks

Have you ever wondered what a 6-hour Whatsapp chat must be like? Joi…

We jump right into the reading as this is essentially part 2 of the last episode where we used up all the time just chatting as we are wont to do

We hear more about the CB radio and Jenny’s addiction …

*** Apologies for Lily's sound quality here ***

This episode we’re dealing with the tyranny of distance, struggling to find time to record. The solution? Split the episode in two which means in this e…

We’re off and running, following on from the previous episode with no intro! And it’s doubly exciting because it’s the beginning of Volume 4! In this episode we cover a lot of ground, in the readings…

Yes, you read the above correctly, we are moving onto volume 4 BUT in this 50+ minute episode we literally only manage less than ten seconds actually reading the diary. The rest will be in episode 5,…

We're approaching the end of 1st  year uni and ALSO the end of Volume 3!! With around 30 volumes to go we aren’t in danger of running out of material any time soon.

In this episode Lily shows her ‘sc…

Welcome to the episode with perhaps the most 'cross strings on the FBI wall' yet.

Lily and I warm up by talking about the records I’ve recently purchased (as listed in the diaries: Secret Policeman’s …

We're back for the 2024 season! But Lily is out of the country, so we will be moving on the fly to bring you the ba-goodness of My Mum's. Nothing will stop us, not oceans and not time zones.

I'm doing…

I find out…

This episode I give a Very Important Health Update (I can’t eat starch or sugar for the next little bit which sucks!), we discuss our thoughts on film Leave the World Behind and the TikTo…