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My Mum's Bad DiariesOne whole invoice (Vol.5, 1983)We start off and mum is out of sorts, blaming the planets, as well as Fast 800. She is also considering a bath which is a HUGE step after her breaking her knee. We discuss the strategies around getting her in, but more importantly getting her out.The diary reading begins with mum and my uncle stranded in Mt Beauty after the VW bug KON breaks down on the mountain. Mum is thinking about Jay, her cold hot tub crush. Back in Melbourne there's a lot of shopping, mum gets a cold AND her period, and...
2025-11-191h 17My Mum's Bad Diaries3rd wheel (Vol. 5, 1983)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. We found it hard to be impressed by the impressionists get it?) but we also have a reading from May 1983 for you. Mum heads to Sydney - FINALLY. KON the VW beetle has been fixed and is in good nick (apparently, there are a few hiccups on the road including the 'G' light goes on. What does that mean, Mum and her friends wonder)....
2025-08-201h 18My Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (dramione)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 fan fiction that has proliferated online and which we talk about in this side chat. +Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries and thanks for listening!We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2025-06-1121 minMy Mum's Bad Diaries18 days to Sydney (Vol.5, 1983)*** Content note: mention of hard drug use; violence+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 (not remarkable) and mentions that she's using a 'Safeway Bag' as a handbag (which needs some unpacking lol see what I did there). She goes to see SCUM at the Ballroom, and talks about the girl who has a $20,000 'contract out on her'. Words like 'scrag' are used, and there's a fight outside the Ballroom. Between two girls...
2025-06-111h 05My Mum's Bad DiariesModern technology (Vol.5, 1983)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 current-day news close to real time. The 1983 readings? Well, they are timeless. But these days when we record we seem to go for hours and so have to split the gold! As well, I'm all over the place (Seattle-London-Antalya) while Mum is actually bed bound. We're not up to that yet in the podcast. But yes, another horse fall but...
2025-06-1144 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 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 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 influencersWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2023-06-1423 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 (alcohol)We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2023-05-3109 minMy 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)We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
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)We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
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 DiariesSIDE CHAT (long dream, invisible boy)Content note: contains mention of sexual assault (r*pe)We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2023-05-2405 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (ep 8 debrief)We chat about last week’s episode, about some issues and challenges, and how we're going to proceed with recordingWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2023-05-2418 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 DiariesSIDE CHAT (more royal, coronash + republic chat)We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2023-05-1717 minMy 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 DiariesSIDE CHAT (royal family chat)We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2023-05-1015 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (how do you pronounce 'narcissus'?)We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2023-05-1006 minMy 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 DiariesSIDE CHAT (OZ politics, history)We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2023-04-2617 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesDear John (Murfet) (Vol.3, 1982)I find out that Pretenders tickets used to cost only $20…This episode we chat (again) about AI (our new fave topic of obsession) and discuss the merits of Bing vs ChatGPT—seriously this has turned into a tech podcast.So maybe skip the whole start and begin listening when it gets good as we read about Gran being out raging with Paddy until 2am and Mum detailing the ins and outs of Adam’s new song ‘Ant Rap’ which Mum says is ‘really good’ but also is concerned about the band's ‘direction’ so decides to write to the Ants...
2023-04-261h 012023-04-1211 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (gwyneth)We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2023-04-1211 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesWhen Dee kissed Braveheart (Vol.3, 1982)I find out that Mum met Mel Gibson in a nightclub...!?We start this episode with a correction after my best friend Jackie reminded me that I had in fact met a sailor...HER (though I will say that I was thinking more along the lines of navy sailor not Mediterranean sail-yachts sailor)During recording, Mum brought out a prop - a bag of Jubes - which we immediately start chewing on (apologies for the sound quality) as we chat about Mum settling back into life in Melbourne, spunk spotting at the Hilton Hotel...
2023-04-121h 06My Mum's Bad DiariesWrite I shall (Vol.3, 1982)I find out what an acoustic couplers is (or was)...Mum is back in Melbourne and is still on the hunt for THE BOOTS, can’t find them and so naturally comforts herself by buying another leather belt from IshkaWe chat about Ben Ean Moselle and how bad wine culture used to be in the ‘80s, Mum’s spaghetti marinara obsession and actually find the piece of paper Mum tallied them on! We discuss what Mum was reading the summer of 1982: Mayor of Casterbridge, Donald Duck comic and The Palladin (pick the one that doesn’...
2023-03-311h 11My Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (the bots are coming)We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2023-03-2908 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (exotic food)We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2023-03-2904 minMy 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 DiariesThe cobra under the cushion (Vol.3, 1982)*** Content note: there's a bit of language around race in the Hong Kong episodes. Times have changed (which is GOOD) but we think it's important to keep the entries true to history and then it's an opportunity to unpack and discuss.I find out what a Lowrey organ is… And more importantly I find out all about mum’s trip to Hong Kong! We set off at a cracking pace in the first episode of Season 2 as we dive into 1982- we’ve got rugby boys, sailors and a life sized cut out of John...
2023-03-221h 00My 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 (red lady apples etc)Content note: we talk about extreme diets in this side chatWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2022-04-1721 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesIt's a (Xmas) wrap (Vol.3, 1981)Content note: thrush-date (we know you missed it!), and medical stuff is discussed. As usual, we encourage you to talk to a doctor about anything that might be bothering you.*I find out what a travellers cheque really is…It’s Christmas time in 1981! And the last episode of Season One!We read about going to the canoe race at Albert Park Lake, legs ‘a la lobster’ which means very sunburned legs, mum goes to Leo’s Spaghetti Bar, gran’s worried about mum’s trip to China cause the ‘white slave trade...
2022-04-1752 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesMum kissed a frog... and she liked it (Vol.3, 1981)I find out that mum knew ‘Bretty’ growing up!This episode really has it all! We’re coming to the end of 1981 and we read about how mum’s going to China, how she manages to eat a whole lobster, how she was at a party and it started pouring with rain and none of the boys had shown up, how on a drinks run Peter Rowsthorn picks up a bunch of hitch hikers (oh the 80s) in big straw hats with weird names like Frog! How these interlopers continue on with them to mum’s friend’s party, how...
2022-04-1059 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (ukraine)Content note: This was recorded before the horrific imagery from Ukraine came out shortly after. We often take a light-hearted tone to many of the things we discuss because we believe while we aren't making fun *of* things, often laughing *about* things can push back against power and trauma and can definitely be a coping mechanism. We laugh at ourselves and it helps us feel better. We laugh at the world and it helps us feel better. We know we aren't the only ones who do this. We realise, though, that our chat about these topics might be...
2022-04-1021 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesTo all the friends I didn’t keep in touch with (Vol.3, 1981)I find out that teenagers have always been angsty about what to do with their lives and that despite being 25 I’ve still got the angst…Mum is turning 18!! She’s an ADULT, ready to go out into the world and have adventures that fill volumes and volumes of journals which eventually become this podcast!We read all about the birthday celebrations, the various gifts mum got, an article in The Age that annoyed mum so much she wrote a letter to them and sent it in, speech night at school and how mum wa...
2022-04-0351 minMy 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!We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
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 (no sweat)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)We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2022-03-2015 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (satire in film, and the 3 novels L would like to do a PhD on)We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
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/We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
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.comWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2022-03-0905 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.comWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2022-03-0911 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.com
2022-03-0910 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.comWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2022-02-1305 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.comWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2022-02-0603 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.comWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2022-02-0604 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.comWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2022-01-3010 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.com
2022-01-3012 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (thrushdate)Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesClick to head to our show notes at: mymumsbaddiaries.comWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2022-01-3003 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 12My Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE RANT (mediocrity, the arts)Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesClick to head to our show notes at: mymumsbaddiaries.comWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2022-01-2316 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesEnter the Ant (Vol.2, 1981)Content note; we talk about sex and there’s also some fatphobic languageWe also apologise for Lily’s bad sound quality SORRY!!!!!*I find out that this Adam Ant obsession isn’t ending any time soon…It’s July 1981 and Ant-mania is thick in the air as mum is heading to her first ever sighting of the man himself, of course he’s going to pull her up on stage Courtney Cox style, right?We read about mum meeting Pubic Hair Bear, more of mum’s Adam f...
2022-01-161h 09My Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (emerging sexuality, guys as super needy, assumed Yes v assumed No, fear of being alone)Click to head to our show notes: https://www.mymumsbaddiaries.com/episodesFollow us on Instagram too! https://www.instagram.com/mumsbaddiaries/We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2022-01-1613 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (journals generally)Click to head to our show notes: https://www.mymumsbaddiaries.com/episodesFollow us on Instagram too! https://www.instagram.com/mumsbaddiaries/We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2022-01-1604 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (BOM, Indigenous weather systems)Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesClick to head to our show notes at: mymumsbaddiaries.comWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2022-01-0902 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (nikki gemmell's bride stripped bare, memoir, our project)The Bride Stripped Bare was published by Anonymous in 2003Nikki Gemmell - The Age talks about the experience of having this novel published under 'Anonymous' and then the fall-out when it was revealed she was the authorhttps://www.theage.com.au/national/the-author-stripped-bare-20030628-gdvy9p.htmlCorrection: in the chat Jenny calls it a memoir, but it was a novel (heavily autobiographical. An early version of autofiction?) That blending of real and fiction we now call autofiction or creative non fictionFollow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries
2022-01-0907 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (love, friendships, 'the one', expectations)Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesClick to head to our show notes at: mymumsbaddiaries.comWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2022-01-0913 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesMum and John sitting in a tree... (Vol.2, 1981)Content note: we talk about eating, dieting and exercise, self esteem, and sexual predation*I find out about mum’s long list of crushes..Tune to hear about my unexplained infestation of blow flies that seem to just appear and I seriously I can’t figure out where they’re coming from??As usual I digress. This episode we further explore mum’s longing for a boyfriend and chat about our complicated relationships with our respective fathers (a connection me thinks??). We also chat about how teenage friendships can often be...
2022-01-091h 03My Mum's Bad DiariesWe will tell your mother!!! (Vol.2, 1981)Content note: we talk about suicide *I find out about mum getting high on tiger balm…Episode 12 sees us in April 1981 as mum finally jots down her escapades on a school trip to Noumea the previous year. We read about how lax the trip teachers were, allowing the girls to just roam the Noumean streets unattended to ‘practise their French’ aka meet the local boys; how they had to scold some naughty boys who threw fire crackers at them — ‘we will tell your mother!’ — and how they went on a breakfast date with a man...
2021-12-261h 15My Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (wuthering heights, obsession, the forsyte saga, trauma bonding)Notes for this side chatOn Wuthering Heights, Lily calls it ‘a study in unhappiness’ and ‘obsession without desire’Did Emily Bronte have any relationship?Research:Dorothy Porter – Australian poet and writer – said Somerset Maugham speculated Emily Bronte had a disastrous love at boarding school and ‘fed off it for the rest of her life’Irish Times said of Emily: ‘no, never married, seemed not to have had any romantic attachments’Correction: Charlotte Bronte did marry: the church’s assistant curate Arthur Bell Nicholls
2021-12-2612 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesThe guy in the freezer (Vol.2, 1981)Content note: we only talk a little bit about Wuthering heights in this full episode. Head to our Side Chat for more Wuthers!*I find out about how mum put my boyfriend in the freezer…This episode we bring you mum’s falcon obsession, me struggling to figure out how to book in my covid vaxx (it really shouldn’t be this hard!), mum’s phlegm problem and how she thinks she came up with the ‘just do it’ tagline before Nike in 1988. As always, listen to experience: cringe, giggles and s...
2021-12-261h 13My Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE RANT (prince harry & meghan markle, finding freedom... to merch!)Content note: we talk a lot about the British Royal Family, you have been warned!We discuss Oprah’s show made with Prince Harry, The Me You Can’t See, Apple TVOfficial trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWevopoBmAE*We talk about Harry's appearance with James Corden, being down to earth and funnyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oxlCKMlpZwFollow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesClick to head to our show notes at: mymumsbaddiaries.comWe'd love...
2021-12-1914 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesJust get a mirror and look (Vol.2, 1981)Content note: lots of body talk (the vagina specifically) and period talk*I find out that I’ll never be over my height complex… It’s Friday night, 30th of January, 1981, precisely 10:10pm and mum gets WILD and changes things up switching from a blue biro to a black one. We read about how dinner at a Spanish restaurant cost mum less than $10 (thanks inflation) and how grandad wildly overpromised mum a euro trip — guess what, it didn’t happen. We chat about my stumpy village-girl legs, how I was born in...
2021-12-1954 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE RANT (leunig, cancel culture, nuance, staying in your lane, wokeness, class, revolution. ft. dennis the handyman)Content note: we touch on suicide and self harm in passingFollow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesClick to head to our show notes at: mymumsbaddiaries.comWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2021-12-1924 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (carpe diem)Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesClick to head to our show notes at: mymumsbaddiaries.comWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2021-12-1906 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (hard workers v smart workers)In this side chat we mention Cal Newport's book Deep Workhttps://blog.doist.com/deep-work/*We also mention the palliative care nurse reports about the regrets of the dying, and how no one ever says they wish they worked more or harder:Here's a list: 1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.2. I wish I hadn't worked so hard.
2021-12-1905 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesExistentialism (Vol.2, 1981)Content note: we talk a lot about body parts and sex *This episode, we read about mum considering a career in a big computing firm, her existentialism, and her deep desire to travel (which dw that comes later in the diaries!). Also how I reckon I could be a formula one driverAs always, listen to experience: cringe, giggles and some real-life shit. Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2021-12-1952 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (duck rescue)Content note: animal violenceFollow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesClick to head to our show notes at: mymumsbaddiaries.comWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2021-12-1908 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (violence in films, inglourious basterds, kill bill, lars von trier etc)Content note: we discuss violence in film, sexual violence in film, exploitation in Hollywood, rape, fantasies, sexWe also talk about:Quentin Tarantino and the Inglourious Basterds scene where it’s his hands strangling Diane Kruger (also has done to Uma Thurman as well!) https://www.indiewire.com/2018/02/quentin-tarantino-chokes-uma-thurman-diane-kruger-kill-bill-inglourious-basterds-1201925510/Tarantino pressured Thurman to do stunt driving https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/02/uma-thurman-crash-footage-kill-bill-instagram Last Tango in Paris – sexual assault, butter rape scene https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2018/11/26/story-behind-filmmaker-bernardo-bertoluccis-last-public-controversy/ Brando was 48 and Schneider was 19Nymphomaniac – Lars von Trier
2021-12-1908 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSmells good... (Vol.2, 1981)Content note: we discuss abusive relationships; violence and sexual violence in film*I find out that it’s maybe not normal for your partner to be able to smell you??It’s January 1981 and mum is 17, going to go see The Models at the Hotel Pacific in Lorne and having a very ‘authentic’ dinner of spaghetti bolognese at the Arabian themed restaurant, The Arab. What a time to be alive! This episode, we delve into pheromones, the culture of showering and its relation to class, and mum’s continual habit of co...
2021-12-1941 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesSIDE CHAT (contraception, hormones, 'crazy' women and the whole damn thing)Content note: we mention rape in passingFollow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesClick to head to our show notes at: mymumsbaddiaries.comWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
2021-12-1911 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesThe bad bros (Vol.2, 1981)Content note: in this episode we talk about sexually coercive behaviour/sexual harassment*I learn that everyone has trauma…not least our parentsThis one’s a pretty heavy episode, but a good one as we read about some bad boys mum experienced when she was younger. It’s hard to hear your parent talk about their hurt but I’m so proud of mum sharing with me and that we were able to call it for what it was and give some clarity and support that she maybe didn’t get from t...
2021-12-191h 05My Mum's Bad DiariesInfected nipples (Vol.2, 1981)I find out about a gnome called Wilfred…This episode we start volume 2 of mum’s bad diaries, only 39 years to go. We discuss how we both don’t trust people who randomly change their names (why you trying to run from yourself?), the rise of homelessness in older women and mum going to see Flying High at the cinema. As always, listen to experience: cringe, giggles and some real-life shit.Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesClick to head to our show notes at: mymumsbaddiaries.comWe'd love to...
2021-12-1942 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesThe fake marriage (Vol.1, 1981)Content note: we discuss weight, appearance and diet (resources below)*Today I find out that my grandad had a fake marriage... This episode we unpack the 7th of January, 1981. We read about mum going to see You Can't Stop the Music starring the Village People and how people seriously, truly, naively had no inkling they were gay. Or Elton John for that matter. We chat about the different beauty/skincare products of the 1980s (people were literally washing their faces with soap) and the rise of the be...
2021-12-1540 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesThe one with the Friends reunion (Vol.1, 1981)Content note: we talk appearance, cosmetic surgery, ageing, negative self-talk and self-image (resources below)*I find out about the time a random guy grimaced at mum when she smiled at him…(rude!)It’s another blazing hot day as mum and the fam are still camping at Wangaratta. Facing another cold summer in 2021/22 due to the La Nina winds I can't tell you how JEALOUS I am of their glorious consistent hot summers in back in the 80s... thanks for the climate change lol.We read about Ned the echi...
2021-12-1557 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesIt was a sort of booth (Vol.1, 1980)Content note: we discuss negative self talk, and other people's appearances*Mum’s more scared about doing this podcast than I realised…Throwback to 28, December 1980 when the summer heat was high and Joe Dolce was on the radio, incessantly. We read about camping at Wangaratta, chat about The Great Wall of Vagina and learn about how both me and mum have complexes about our noses, it must be genetic! We also delve into the anxieties surrounding doing a podcast like this, what our family and friends will think, and who c...
2021-12-1254 minMy Mum's Bad DiariesLeroy love (Vol.1, 1980)Content note: we mention sexual abuse and violence, in passing (resources below)*I find out mum's not as good a student as I always thought... Join us in October 1980 as we change the format a little and mum reads her bad diaries to me. It's definitely a different experience having her share them in her voice, it feels more natural and less like I'm sneaking into her room to read her diaries! We read about the mechanical bull at The Sentimental Bloke and chat about period anxiety and encounter so...
2021-12-1254 minMy Mum's Bad Diaries2 women, 2 mics, 40 years of diaries (Vol.1, 1980)We went back and listened to our season, especially the first few episodes and thought: we've learned so much, we CAN do better. Also we've learned how to put the beeps in for blanked out names! We have new theme music -- more Spandau Ballet, less Amelie. So re-join us for episode 1 -- re-recorded so that this time, and from now on, mum reads.*Granddad tells mum someone's dead when they aren't...We're diving headfirst into 11 July 1980 as mum reads out the first few entries of her teenage diary, written when she was 16.
2021-12-121h 23My Mum's Bad DiariesTeaser episode for My Mum's Bad Diaries2 women, 2 mics and 40 years of diariesIn this teaser episode, meet mother and daughter Jenny and Lily who will take you on the ride that is My Mum's Bad Diaries. Each week, Jenny reads from her teenage diaries, starting in 1980. Part therapy, part entertainment, buckle up for the rollercoaster!Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
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