The cloakroom scandal (Vol.3, 1981)

Content note: in this episode we talk about food, eating, weight and self esteem. We mention bulimia and anorexia. We also mention ethnic stereotypes.


I find out that mum’s been sleuthing since she was a teenager…

It’s the 9th of October 1981 and a pair of jeans go missing from the school cloakroom. We read mum’s suspicions and she makes one of her trademark resolutions to ‘not snack between meals’ until New Year’s Day 1982. So like two months away. Mum goes to a party and ‘celebrates’ the three-month anniversary of seeing Adam in Jubilee.  

We chat about body perception and joke about how I’m the Turkish village lady and how mum’s from stolid Scottish Highland stock and discuss the mystery of my raspberries going missing out of the freezer.

As always, listen to experience: cringe, giggles and some real-life shit.

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