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My Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (the singing imam)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 the festive season.Lily has the imam and his wife coming to afternoon tea and her linen pants are ruined because of stone dust after visit to the stone men. Yes it’s an update on Lily’s life in south of Turkey where she’s living with her father, and we also have Jenny’s curren...2024-12-0446 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesThe Germans (Vol.5, 1983)Content note: mention of sexual assaultIt’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 about the Sydney trip and it seems it might be off due to parental opposition, but then just as quickly, it’s back on again. And there’s a struggle to cook eggs for Simon from Bristol, and then Jenny… drives Simon home. Again.Shortly after, down at Inverloch, she starts reading The Story of...2024-11-201h 07My Mum's Bad DiariesThe date (Vol.5, 1983)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’re back in January 1983. Jenny is trying to tidy her room, she plans to drive to Sydney in the VW Beetle with her friends and her mum is opposing the idea. Finally also there’s some Simon from Bristol action but Jenny is wary. She organises to defer uni and then goes on a date.Talk about a happenin...2024-11-061h 01My Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (pocket bf)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 Jenny has... Listen in for the lowdown. (Apologies for being so late with this, we had to wait a bit... had it hidden on patreon but NO ONE LISTENED.)Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries2024-10-2353 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (all of the tv)** Content note: a bit of weight talkIt'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 relationship insights. The big question is, though: how many times can Jenny say 'cinque terre'???Link you probably won't be interested in but here they are anyway:Indy Clinton on tiktokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@indyclinton?lang=enKardashians5 seasons on DisneyMillions of earlier seasons on HAYU2024-10-091h 11My Mum's Bad DiariesThe push (Vol.4, 1982/Vol.5 1983)*** Content note: mention of suicideWe’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 in London. She hates ‘everyone’ because they don’t ‘take her seriously’. Ah, to be 19 and totally delulu. She goes to the Ballroom, for the ‘Punk Revival’ night; sees bands Genocide, Depression and The Boot Boys. Jenny tells Lily about finding a No Nonsense page on Facebook, run by Richard, lead singer. There’s a beach party at Middle Park, she’s...2024-09-251h 01My Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (miscellany)Content note: mention of EDs and weightWe 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 for any spoiling. Other cultural touchstones mentioned:Twilight – books and filmsHarry PotterThe Smart-less Podcast and their interview with Kristen StewartThe Jill’s pony books by Ruby FergusonMortal Instruments series Vampire AcademyTrue BloodDead Until D...2024-09-1856 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (on finding balance)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 also 2nd thoughts about going to London for the Henley Regatta and to see Britboy, along with lots of insights and learning. We talk about the perils of a long-distance thing (not even a r'elationship'), the feeling of being in limbo, and the art of detachment. The concept of 'leaving quietly'.Do we need to have as many boundaries with ourselves...2024-09-0443 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (farm life)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 gorgeous Tudor house. Tudor, not 'Tudor-style'.Lily also visits a historical house nearby, rambles the country lanes and picks blackberries from the bushes. All very Thomas Hardy.Warning: there is a seriously tortuous discussion towards the end about some kind of cowboy novel that we just can't think of. Listen at your own peril. It's quite Kafkian and probably...2024-08-081h 07My Mum's Bad DiariesAnti everything (Vol.4, 1982)Content note: fat talk, food talk, beauty talkIn 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/scar/fringe updates (see fringe pics on insta) and then move onto the diary reading from 5 December 1982.Jenny’s life, she says, is ‘reading, writing, listening to music and going out’… pretty typical for most almost-nineteen year olds. She doesn’t really want a job in a shop or restaurant; she wants to ‘be...2024-07-311h 27My Mum's Bad DiariesAll the YMs (Vol.4, 1982)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 ledgerJ and L still don’t know what a general ledger is so here’s a link from the people who know at Xero:https://www.xero.com/au/glossary/general-ledger/There’s more CB radio talk than there is accounting talk, thankfully. Jenny chats with a whole list of young men (YMs) on the rig, and ha...2024-07-1756 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesNew Order = boring (Vol.4, 1982)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 Nonsense.We have more sunburn, more disillusionment with uni, more thinking and more existential angst. There’s a bad poem: Do Something, a party upcoming in Box Hill and an English guy at The Ballroom tells Jenny she looks like Janice Joplin. Jenny isn’t sure this is a flattering comparison, but Lily says she’s had a few people tell her...2024-06-2643 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (Turkish dispatch)** Content warning: brief mention of self harm/cuttingThis is part 1 of this recording session; next episode publishes in two weeksHave you ever wondered what a 6-hour Whatsapp chat must be like? Join us for a taster! In this episode, Jenny learns more about Lily’s beauty treatments in the South of Turkey, and you're along for the ride. Nails! Hair! Face fillers!We catch up with Lily's movements since we last recorded, and about how she also reverts to ‘child role’ when in a domesti...2024-06-1246 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesEyeball (Vol.4, 1982)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 doWe hear more about the CB radio and Jenny’s addiction to it (there's a 'big fight' with brother Jim because he won’t let her use ‘the rig’. Lily laughs about Jenny using the term ‘the rig’ and rightly so because it’s very 1970s CQ CQ Rubber Ducky trucker talk. But the thing is, Jenny is chatting to Brian and George, local station masters and then in this e...2024-05-2948 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (lily in paris)*** 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 ep you get quite a bit of chat, with a Lily Paris update and then some TV talk.We hear about the perils of a matte black kitchen, what happened to Lily’s head in Thailand, and something about homesickness (short lived!) How meeting people while travelling is almost the best part, and a consideration of Paris v London.Then it’s...2024-05-1549 minMy Mum's Bad Diaries[cb] radio days (Vol.4, 1982)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 and in the in between bits (IBBs, aka the chat). Jenny skips most of the dreams, Lily says ‘great’. It’s ten days until exams but Jenny’s got other things on her mind: how to pin the tuxedo pants, how to acquire more t-shirts, how to have someone famous love her and how to open a shop (t-shirts naturally!) Oh, and she also w...2024-05-011h 21My Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (all talk)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, sorry about that Chief!So what you will actually hear in this ep is stuff like:Lily's struggles to dye her hair; my struggles with ancestry.com; how Lily will be a Mac (Apple) girl forever because of Air Drop; the approach of Lily's 10-year school reunion; a bit of Jenny's grey hair history; the Turkish hatred of a draft; how...2024-04-1756 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesBurned (Vol.3, 1982)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 ‘scathe’ for Johnny Rotten’s somewhat naïve, 1980s punk philosophy while Jenny’s feeling sorry for a character on ‘80s soap Sons and Daughters. Jenny’s also determined to lay a good foundation for the skin cancer that will rear its ugly head in a few decades time (don’t worry chaps; nothing too serious!) 2024-04-0353 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSweaty Weather (Vol.3, 1982)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 Other Ball and Complete Madness) and then get-off topic pretty quickly and onto the recent rival royal appearances of William and Harry: both appearing with top celebs and both in an airspace context (Harry first with John Travolta at the ‘Flying Legends’ awards and then William a week or so later with Tom Cruise at the Air Ambulance helicopter event. We then...2024-03-2044 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesBold and brave (Vol.3, 1982)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 the socials, so you'll miss Lily's fine wit but nevertheless, we are here to stay and will keep pumping out our content, even if things look a little different as we go forward.In this episode we spend a lot of time talking and not reading from the 1982 diary - you know how it goes...2024-03-1355 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesVoid (Vol.3, 1982)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 TikTok conspiracies surrounding the movie. We also chat about Wifedom, the amazing book that I’m reading, and read about 1982 Mum still slogging away at her English essay, continuing to listen to 3PBS, and the development of a new crush! Which she writes in the diary in the most cryptic way! Mum also goes to s...2023-12-211h 08My Mum's Bad DiariesMolly's jacket (Vol.3, 1982)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 character! We also chat about the benefits of the cold shower in the morning (I’m a convert) and how my self-care routine has become a literal full time job. We read about Mum listening to a punk segment on 3PBS, reading Clockwork Orange (can you gues...2023-12-131h 25My Mum's Bad DiariesPeanuts (Vol.3, 1982)Content warning: we chew peanuts VERY loudlyAnd 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 contemplated taking up smoking a pipe…We read out an email response that Mum received from Nell Campbell (Crabs in Jubilee) after contacting her earlier in the year and fangirling HARD. We chat about my 2024 travel plans, Jamie Oliver being in Melb- I seriously can’t believe I didn’t run into him- how I was...2023-11-301h 31My Mum's Bad DiariesAnd we're back (Vol.3, 1982)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 Benedictine monk. I, on the other hand, unexpectedly quit my job, moved back home and have spent the last couple of months looking after the (three!) cats while trying to figure out a business idea that’ll make me millions as I travel, and am trying my hardest not to think too hard about the fact that I’m right back to where I was at the...2023-11-231h 15My Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE RANT (all of the things, but mostly politics)This is a special bonus ep, a SIDE RANT that ended up being more than an hour.We talk:power billspoliticsthe anger of the current generation against the olderwhy Mum 'fell off the Marie Kondo train'going to see Barbie - spoiler, we did not likehow much we hate emailswrong takes on Little Womenthe idea of writers building on other author's novels, eg March and Wide Sargasso Seathe cult of Anne of Green Gableswould we ever do PhDs?the girls' trip to Airlie Beach7 types of restChina limiting phone time for teenagers and do we...2023-08-161h 08My Mum's Bad DiariesBefore Barbie (Vol.3, 1982)*** Content note – we mention child killing and suicideI 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 we read about Mum going to dinner with a murderer (more on that later), failing her psych lab report, wandering Lygon Street and realising that she might even ‘enjoy being alone,’ and becoming even more time obsessive than usual by noting down the time with seconds when she starts writing. This sparks a big chat abo...2023-08-091h 06My Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (erica jong's fear of flying)** 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 longer recording. Sometimes our episodes are wildly discursive and this was one of them.Lily starts by saying how much she's loving THE FEAR OF FLYING by Erica Jong, a book I recommended a number of years ago. She remarks on how the larger themes don't tend to change over time, because humans don't change.2023-07-2634 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (from tv to generation+)** 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 longer recording. Sometimes our episodes are wildly discursive and this was one of them.This one starts with us talking TV -- if you're anything like us, it's a common topic when we chat. I've been revisiting CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, and watching S10 and 11 (on Binge). Then, I recommend Lily checks out PLATONIC (Apple+) with Rose...2023-07-2615 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesLive life (Vol.3, 1982)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 it’s soooo good!!) and classics vs contemporary lit, and the growth of genre in modern publishing. (It was so long we made it a side chat which we’ll upload next Thursday.) We touch on the Hollywood writers' strike being led by The Nanny, the move from t...2023-07-191h 09My Mum's Bad DiariesThat's... interesting (Vol.3, 1982)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 dead sheep. Mum mucks around on the CB radio and writes an emotional letter to a friend. We chat about how our expectations of entertainment have changed over time, fandom now vs 40 years ago, the difference between how Mum and I journal- I do it to emotionally unpack life and Mum oft...2023-07-051h 00My Mum's Bad DiariesThe ballad (Vol.3, 1982)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!!) and seagulls squawking outside my window (very distracting!! And I don’t live anywhere near the ocean) as we read about Mum buying her first Sex Pistols album for $4.99, going to see Lady Chatterley's Lover, seeing Dan the psych guy and missing more Uni. We read Mum's ballad which is deeply inspired by The Wolf and the D...2023-06-2857 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (little gods)*** SPOILERS*** Lily finishes reading Jenny's book Little Gods and has some thoughts.2023-06-2815 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesWhen fringes go wrong (Vol.3, 1982)*** 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 Mac spinning beach ball. We manage to get the show on the road and read about Mums extensive dreams, driving everywhere because she now has her licence and is the chauffeur to all her friends, Mum’s extensive reading list of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, The French Lieutenant’s Woman and Garfield... and most importantly getting a haircut that that ab...2023-06-211h 19My Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (niche life / people as the product)In this side chat, Jenny and Lily talk about:the niche eraless is moreproductivity v conception of ideaspeople as contentcreativitykid influencers2023-06-1423 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesEnter the ska (Vol.3, 1982)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 band at The Aberdeen in North Fitzroy – and finally manages to find those goddamn Kafka books!We then read about Mum’s recurring dream from childhood of being the plump fairy from The Flintstones, getting ready for her driving test which is in 16 days (!), finding out that Jubilee is available on VHS, still slogging away to finish Light...2023-06-141h 09My Mum's Bad DiariesF*ck Kafka (Vol.3, 1982)Content note: weight and diet talk; also brief mention of self harm and sexual assaultI find out how many years old Mum was the first time she boiled an egg... EIGHTEEN! Wild, I've been a master of the boiled egg for over a decade nowThis episode we read about Mum reading The Bourne Identity for the first time, starting the Weight Watchers diet with lots of cottage cheese and Ryvitas, writing an essay on Kafka for Uni and none of the books being in the library because guess what? Every first-year l...2023-06-071h 18My Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (boredom / relationships)We discuss:relationshipsSuccession podcast Firecrotch and Normcorevolunteering; Jenny wants to do 'service lite'Red Cross blood donationslibrariesthe big destroyer of relationships (according to J's therapist: convention and routine)2023-05-3120 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (hemingway)Lily asks who is writing weird fic these days, Jenny mentions Ali SmithAlso chat about:A biography Jenny just finished reading Everybody Behaves Badly, Lesley MM Blume (on Hemingway writing The Sun Also Rises) Correction: Jenny says Old Man and the Sea won Pulitzer then Nobel Lit Prize; it was BOTH (Pul. in 1953 and Nobel in 1954)2023-05-3105 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesGet bent, maaan (Vol.3, 1982)I find out about Mum’s first doobie...This episode we chat about the potential of me and Seth maybe moving in together, bad boys, the changing tattoo culture, William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying- a hard read! and online real estate scams. We then read all about Mum going down to her aunt's farm and riding motorbikes, horses and driving the car, playing netball and winning a game and then losing the next to a team of 14-year-olds, more spaghetti marinara, a dream about a party where everyone’s ‘bent’ (I learn what ‘bent’...2023-05-3157 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesThe Psych Guy!!! (Vol.3, 1982)Content note: there is mention of sexual assault (r*pe) as well as food and dieting talk***I find out that in the 80s you really had to just sit by the phone waiting for a guy to ring... We start this episode off by unpacking how we felt recording Episode 8 last week. Mum explains how she felt so exposed and vulnerable and how she worries that reading her diary out to me will make me see her differently... that I'll see her as a loser. I re...2023-05-241h 05My Mum's Bad DiariesThe black dog (Vol.3, 1982)I find out that the Adam Ant obsession has only been going for one year...Seriously how this that possible?! But it's true, this episode marks the one-year anniversary of Mum discovering Adam in April of 1981And it’s with a heavy heart that we learn the news that Adam and the Ants have officially split- Mum surprisingly doesn’t take it too badly as now Adam can ‘focus on his own thing’ - we hear about her picking up a couple of mohair cardigans, seeing Psycho ‘not bad,’ and reading Kafka for the first time ‘it's w...2023-05-171h 20My Mum's Bad DiariesThe boots are BOUGHT! (Vol.3, 1982)Content note: negative self-talk, weight, body talk***I find out what ‘hair that moves’ is...We start this episode with a Very Important Announcement: I've cut all my hair off! All gone! It feels weird but I’m loving this new aerodynamic style. This sparks a convo about Bette Midler and Beaches and ‘hair that moves’ and we then chat about the upcoming Coronation and how we’re annoyed that we’re both away and can’t watch it together and about Mum going to Bendigo’s Writers Festival to host a Bad Diary Salon (very...2023-05-101h 27My Mum's Bad DiariesWhat the f*** is a flexipop!? (Vol.3, 1982)I find out that INXS played O-Week at Melbourne University... We start off discussing current world politics and my obsession with the Parisian riots and their storming of a Louis Vuitton shop -- the modern-day Bastille! We then have our usual AI check in and Mum declares she’s ‘tapping out!’ from the AI rat race .So much happens this episode as we read about Mum’s O-Week experiences where she gets stuck in a lift after joining a tour of the Baillieu Library only for the tour guide to heroically try and give the tour of t...2023-05-031h 15My Mum's Bad DiariesQuiche with a K (Vol.3, 1982)Content note: again this episode has some insensitive language around race.*I find out that Mum doesn’t know how to spell quiche... It’s 1982 and we’re still in Hong Kong as Mum waits for her Year 12 results to drop. She goes to Ocean Marine Park in Aberdeen and has a buffet lunch for HK$50 which is approx. AUD$7.50 so not bad at all, does LOTS of cheap shopping, haggles like a pro, buys a pink feather fan, goes dancing at Thingummy’s Disco and finally makes the journey over into the People’s...2023-03-291h 19My Mum's Bad Diaries*** NEW SPECIAL EPISODE *** It's a Xmas special, ft. Jenny's mum, Pam, joining the show for a three-gen chatI find out what it’s like to record an episode with three generations of Ackland women! We’re back in fine form as we tackle the important questions surrounding Christmas, like the superiority of the cold Christmas lunch, when did the Myer Christmas windows first become a thing, and how to handle answering the question all parents dread: is Father Christmas real? Guest starring Granny, this is a unique look into our family dynamic as we reminisce on one of the most nostalgic and family focused times ever: Christmas! We also realise in the...2022-12-191h 12My Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (working out what to do with your life)In this side chat, we talk about how some things never change, ie teenagers and young adults not knowing what to do with their lives. In December 1981, Mum was thinking about it and here I am all these years later, doing the same!2022-03-3017 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesThere's pirates (Vol.3, 1981)I find out about Buck’s Fizz…This episode mum’s doing her final exams and was given the riveting English expression question of ‘write about a body of water you know well’… English examiners getting creative since 1981!We read about mum feeling left behind by a friend, her plans to ring Adam Ant (how??), Buck’s Fizz on Countdown which was ‘absolutely embarrassing’ and how mum has started a novel… ‘there’s pirates.’ We chat about the new Beatles doco and their obsession with toast, how we now want a toast caddy like they had, how we’ve gone f...2022-03-2752 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (L's sweating problem)As a special episode, we offer this SIDE CHAT ahead of the Episode 23 (coming Monday). We start by talking about Lily and her excessive sweating problem (the opposite of Prince Andrew apparently, but *maybe* he had hyperhidrosis and was treated and so now he *can't* sweat?? wtf knows...) and swing into a number of other topics. We laugh about it but it's a confounding issue. As always, we want to say we aren't medical professionals, just two gals crapping on about stuff.We talk:GPselectric water therapydermatologistssleight of hand 'healers' overseas AKA 'J...2022-03-2320 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (principals, teachers & pushy parents interfering with social stuff at school)2022-03-2015 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (satire in film, and the 3 novels L would like to do a PhD on)2022-03-2015 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesLast day (Vol.3, 1981)I find out about the acid bath…God what do we not cover this episode?? We chat about everything from cows in the bell-tower, mum's last day of school which was ‘the best last day EVER,’ generational trauma in the western world, how Australian claret is ‘heavy as fuck’ and read about how mum felt that she could write 10,000 novels a day if she could just tape her thoughts, the fam going down to the Inverloch beach house, an ad in Eric Idle's The Rutland Dirty Weekend Book that mum found particularly fascinating, not to ment...2022-03-2048 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSchool's out... almost (Vol.3, 1981)Content note: we discuss medical stuff towards the end, and medications/treatments. We aren't doctors -- obviously -- so please get your own medical advice from a GP. But we like to include bits and pieces from our own lives that might help others (chronic thrush sufferers particularly!)‘I find out that finishing school is bittersweet for everyone…’ It’s October 1981 and it’s almost the last day of school, mum has her final end of year dinner and like all of us, is sad to be leaving her friends but raring to get out t...2022-03-1344 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (squid game)In this short side chat we talk about:Korean show Squid Game (Netflix)Stephen King's The Running Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Running_Man_(King_novel)Japanese TV game shows, a few egs here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-QSlmrV2JAhttps://uproxx.com/viral/japanese-game-show-chinko-machine-ball-slapper/2022-03-1310 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (Seth’s in the freezer)Jenny explains why she put a picture of Lily's boyfriend... in the freezer Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesClick to head to our show notes at: mymumsbadidiaries.com2022-03-0905 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (Melbourne's riots, oh and an earthquake too!)Westgate Bridge is renamed 'Westraithwaite' Bridge after rioting 'tradies' (aka alt-right actors) take over the bridge and sing Daryl Braithwaite's Horses. Jenny tries to make a funny animal-themed connection between the song, Ivermectin and whether the guys snorting drugs outside someone's window were taking Ketamine, but it falls flat. And she mispronounces Ivermectin into the bargain.Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesClick to head to our show notes at: mymumsbadidiaries.com2022-03-0911 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE RANT: (Jenny's new waffle maker, Meghan + Harry... again!)Content note: there's a bit of royal family ranting in this bonus side chat. We call it a rant. We like to talk about the royals, you've been warned!We cover a bit in this rant: Edward and Wallis, mention the Lady Colin Campbell book on the Queen Mother, Diana's narcissism, how MM's social media changed in the lead up to meeting Harry (before it was all Suits-style clothes, then it was suddenly all African bead bracelets, baseball caps, jeans and flats. And Diana's perfume... Interesting).Here's the link to their engagement video. She didn't...2022-03-0922 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (self care v 'being selfish')In this side chat, we find out that when Lily wants a chicken salad, she really just wants her chicken salad!We talk commitment and obligation, and what does saying 'I love you' really mean? People confuse being kind and empathetic with giving another person what they want, and mix being selfish with being unkind. But we believe being selfish is just taking care of yourself - it's not being mean to rude to others.Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesClick to head to our show notes at: mymumsbadidiaries.com2022-03-0910 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesThe 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 J...2022-03-061h 02My Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (popularity at school and how it works)Side chat 2 for this week (because we have gone fishing!) (Or rather 'fishing'.) (Disclosure: no fish are actually involved!)The world is going to shit (war/pandemic/Kanye being seen out and about with a Kim doppelgänger) -- like what is next?? So leave the now and join us for some frivolous yet kinda dark chat about how popularity works, how socially mobile people can be (and can't be) and how girls are used as 'currency' by boys at a private boys' school in Melbourne as 'tickets' to parties. Let's face it, if...2022-02-2717 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (would Jesus have worn spacers?)We're taking a break this week (we've gone fishing!) (Not really!) But we bring you two fabulous side chats. This one is in the description. Do you think it's ok for a little light tampering with your partner's aesthetic? Is there anyone -- any gender -- who is 100% about their partner's look? Let us know! You can find us if you try hard enough, so send us a message.As always, listen to experience: cringe, giggles and some real-life shit. Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries Click to head to our show n...2022-02-2710 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesThe dropped toy and the Nazis (Vol.2/Vol.3, 1981)I find out that I could just condense everything we chat about each episode into a list…Noel Fielding and short fringesSex Education, and how Ruby tampers with Otis’s lookPatrick – Mum’s first boyfriend (on the way in a couple of years)People trying to control their partner’s ‘look’ or aesthetic (Look out for our Side Chat next week!)Double denim, Jenny and Ali Bomber jackets are not jacketsThe side part – so ageingAustralians and casual wear‘Horse’ hair – hair issuesHow popularity works at school, starts youngAlso, Jenny dreams for the first time of AdamOh and we read some of the...2022-02-201h 01My Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (the metaverse, red pill / blue pill)Listen as Jenny and Lily ramble about their understanding of the metaverse. This was recorded in 2021. They know a (little) bit more now.Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesClick to head to our show notes at: mymumsbaddiaries.com2022-02-1305 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesFinally... the concert (Vol.2, 1981)I find out how Adam Ant grinds his hips… THIS IS IT MY FRIENDS, this is THE episode where mum goes to the Adam Ant concert! We read how ‘Adam danced perfectly,’ and how he was ‘grinding and swivelling at the exact moments.’ You can imagine the tizz.We chat about personal brands, how you have to just WAS (Wait And See) it in life, the Britney conservatorship, how we went clubbing as a family in 2021 and how Hillsong has bought Festival Hall.As always, listen to experience: cringe, giggles and so...2022-02-131h 15My Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (gift of gab, arrested development)Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesClick to head to our show notes at: mymumsbaddiaries.com2022-02-0603 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (lilika's year 10 irl crush)Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesClick to head to our show notes at: mymumsbaddiaries.com2022-02-0604 minMy Mum's Bad Diaries100% Adam, 100% of the time (Vol.2, 1981)I find out that this is actually just an Adam Ant fan girl podcast…Join us this episode as we hurtle back to 13th of September 1981 (and we recorded this episode on 7th of September 2021, spooky??) as we read in SO MUCH detail about mum’s love for Adam Ant, how he was on this one episode of Countdown, how his new album was coming out, how he was having a concert in Melbourne, how he was then on an episode of 60 Minutes, how in this one interview he had this tiny little plaits around his head that...2022-02-061h 03My Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (cleanliness v cleanly as an archaic term, lily's year-round tan)Content note: in this side chat we talk about offensive racial stereotypesFollow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesClick to head to our show notes at: mymumsbaddiaries.com2022-01-3010 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesS1E16: SIDE CHAT (pando locko depresso, august 2021)Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesClick to head to our show notes at: mymumsbaddiaries.com2022-01-3012 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (thrushdate)Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesClick to head to our show notes at: mymumsbaddiaries.com2022-01-3003 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesWe love you, Robin P (Vol.2, 1981)I find out about Mum’s biggest critic…It’s the 22nd of August 1981 and 17-year-old mum is vowing to smile more… cause that will fix everything. We chat about the concept of ‘resting bitch face’ or as we’d prefer to call it ‘resting face’ because let’s be honest, everyone has it. In true style I make some bold statements saying that I wish I could make all men blind for a week because I’m tired of being perceived, and we read more of mum’s resolutions to pull up her socks to study hard...2022-01-3050 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesThe fake wedding (Vol.2, 1981)Content note: In this episode there's some negative body talk*I find out about my grandad’s fake wedding…This episode's choc-a-block as we forget this isn’t a book club podcast and give our analysis on Wuthering Heights, chat about mother vs father betrayal, how men are often the first ones to say ‘I love you’, how sex can change relationships. Mum reads about being 17 and MORTIFIED as the male doctor tells her she has a thick hymen; we bicker about the difference between interrupting and commenting (the real life m...2022-01-231h 12