My Mum's Bad Diaries

We talk about the new Netflix film 'Leave the World Behind'. 
Spoilers -- obviously!

(Double spoiler: we didn't like it)

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I find out… whose jacket Mum burnt a hole in! 

We chat about Mum’s birthday weekend we just had up at the Yarra Valley, the horse ride we went on up there and Chateau Yering which was just full of ch…

Content warning: we chew peanuts VERY loudly

And we have a new, shorter intro which we will record each week. Gets you to the chat and the diary-reading more quickly!


I find out that Mum once contempla…

Mum is home from her three month jaunt around Europe which included lots of cowbells – big and small – Paris, which seemed cheap after Switzerland, –  ‘ it bankrupted us’ – and a Latin class with a B…

This is a special bonus ep, a SIDE RANT that ended up being more than an hour.

We talk:

• power bills
• politics
• the anger of the current generation against the older
• why Mum 'fell off the Marie Kondo train'
• g…

*** Content note – we mention child killing and suicide

I find out that Mum once planned to burn her diaries once they got ‘too ridiculous to read’...

Wonder if we’re at that point now?

This episode w…

** Hey, it's Jenny here. Lily is off on a boat up north so I'm doing the ep description.

This is one of our famous* side chats, which is basically an excision out of the loose, baggy body of the longe…

** Hey, it's Jenny here. Lily is off on a boat up north so I'm doing the ep description.

This is one of our famous* side chats, which is basically an excision out of the loose, baggy body of the longe…

I find out that Mum once ate 17 liquorice sticks in a day...

IN ONE DAY! The mind boggles

We start this episode with a long chat about what we’re reading (I’m reading Fear of Flying by Erica Jong and…

I find out that Mum used to want to learn the drums...??

This time, we read about Mum going up to her Aunt’s place in Woodend, where she goes riding, the lambs are dropping and there’s a bonfire of d…

I find out that Mum unknowingly attended Prosh* judging in 1982...

This episode we have even more tech problems (it’s totally me, during the ep I realise I'm not plugging in my mic/headphones properly…

*** SPOILERS*** Lily finishes reading Jenny's book Little Gods and has some thoughts.

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*** Content warning: we mention dead bodies, child sexual abuse, eating and diets***

I find out about when Mum saw a dead body...

This episode we dive in despite our continual tech difficulties of the…

In this side chat, Jenny and Lily talk about:

• the niche era
• less is more
• productivity v conception of ideas
• people as content
• creativity
• kid influencers

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I find out what the hell ska is... 

This episode we have more Mick Jagger dreams, in which Mum introduces him as ‘Michael’(they’re on a first name basis), goes to see Strange Tenants – her first ska b…

Content note: weight and diet talk; also brief mention of self harm and sexual assault

I find out how many years old Mum was the first time she boiled an egg... 

EIGHTEEN! Wild, I've been a master of t…

We discuss:

• relationships
• Succession podcast Firecrotch and Normcore
• volunteering; Jenny wants to do 'service lite'
• Red Cross blood donations
• libraries
• the big destroyer of relationships (according to J's …