My Mum's Bad Diaries

Is it possible to spend a whole 20 mins chatting about MESS? We say yes, absolutely. We open up by talking about the problem of 'stuff' and our ongoing inability to find specific 'stuff' in the mess. I'm on the melatonin hunt (a big jar of gummies has gone missing) because I'm off to Europe and need them for the plane! I also can't find half of my travel stuff. M...

And we're back, straight into the reading with part 2 to Wunderbar. Mum is seeing a lot of Patrick; there's kebabs, hot dogs, Maccas and Pizza Hut, and we remark on how our girl eating (and going to Golden Bowl) goes out the window when there's a boy on the scene. In this episode mum manages to lock her keys in the car TWICE and gets them out herself with a coathanger. Did you know...

This is Part 1 of a mega recording sesh.  First we have an old person catch up (all things health including mum's knee and her new laser acupuncture appointments) and then it's into the reading. We're back to aerobics and something called 'lurex' in terms of exercise wear. Fom the internet: ' Lurex® is the registered trademark name for a type of yarn or woven fabric t...

We start recording while I'm out back sunning myself and mum is in studio, she understands how I like to multitask. We talk about health stuff then Summer House, and then it's onto the reading! October 1983 and mum is still picking up SCV folders and driving them around, is reading a Jackie Collins novel while being a little nervous about sleeping in the house by herself, after the robbe...

We're straight out of the gate into the reading, back in September 1983, as this is part 2 of our mega-recording sesh. Mum has a sore throat and is feeling 'rotten' so no Golden Bowl, is doped up on Sudafed and something called 'Disprin' but thinking about her photography folio for RMIT and raking in the cashola from Leader: $160 in folding this week! Her nights are spent...

Content note: we talk about food, diets and bodies + We start with a position of the planets catch up because this is an astrology podcast now. But mum isn't the only one pre-occupied with the stellium in Aries, at Coachella Madonna was as well! We acknowledge the energy has shifted, it's a bit chaotic and a bit disorganised but better all round than a couple of months ago. This is good...

Apologies to Margot, we call her 'nipples' during this side chat. Martha Sitwell is our new icon. ex eife of a baronet (who she cheerfully says rests at the bottom of the aristrocratic hieracrchy), Lady Martha Sitwell is fabulous. She lives in a rental with large sections of peeling paint (just needs a 'lick of paint') and shares her home with a magpie called Hecate -- she shar...

It's September 1983 and mum is counting coin, that's 1c and 2c pieces! But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Our intro, we range across some TV catch-ups including a quick Southern Hospitality chat and Summer House (this is PRE SCANDAL!) We talking failing men, so what's new, dating, the idea of say less (and do less) and even touch on phrenology. Then it's onto the readin...

Strap yourselves in because we get our scathe on in this side chat which is possibly our longest! We wonder if Emerald is okay. We talk about how this is a scrapbook of a film, a Pinterest board if you will. To start with we cover the plot and characterisation, we talk about the character of Isabella, sexy Joseph, the villainising of Nelly (and of course she's a Lady, she's the daughter...

And we're out of the gate with a quick acknowledgement that we're both feeling better than we did 2 weeks ago, mum is reducing her coffee, it's an ongoing odyssey for some reason, and then we move on to the graveyard of boys and their birth charts. Never give a girl your birth date and year let alone your birth time and place. It's on you! I'm hoping for a second burst of...

A catch up of all of our shows: Love Story (CBK and John John, which seems to go awry Episode 6), Summer House (sending love to Ciara), Love is Blind (and our learning a new term along with everyone else: hobosexual), Southern Charm and Craig's dirty edit, our VPR rewatch (we're up to Scandoval now) and RHOBH and our take on newbies Amanda Frances and Rachel Zoe. As always, listen to exp...

Content note: murder talk  How do Virgos rate in the serial killer stats? Pretty high. One slide we saw had Sagg at 4, Virgo at 10, Gemini at 9 and Pisces at 7. You can read more about such stats here: https://www.zodiacsign.com/article/most-common-zodiac-signs-of-serial-killers/   And yes, even though in this side chat mum says Cancer didn't feature in that particular slide in the above link...

Hello and welcome to MMBD, season 5! We have a lot for you both today (episode 1) and coming up next week (side chats plural! There's my theory about Virgos and serial killers plus a mega TV catch up). But first, a content warning for this ep: we talk about weight, we also talk about astrology as is our tendency. You've been warned. + We start off as usual with a catch up -- my new flat...

It's the last episode for Season 4! Join us for a quick Christmas debrief as we catch up on December 2025. Merry Christmas to everyone and a happy and safe New Year. We hope 2026 will be a really fabulous year for you! As always, listen to experience: cringe, giggles and some real-life shit. Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries and thanks for listening We'd love to read your comments or que...

This is part 2, carrying on from episode 14 which published last week. Welcome back! We are straight out of the gate, talking about a talk show called Donohue, and also about granddad and Passout Bronwyn, poor Bronwyn. We have pictures from that exact night (mum thinks) you can see on insta please don't sue us. We talk about how a Minister for Astrology woudl be a reasonable thing government...

We are on to Volume 6!!! But as we discuss in the intro, it really does seem to be taking a while to get through the months. We start out with an early catch up about our Vanderpump Rules rewatch -- and because we don't want to force anyone to listen to our goings on about reality TV we made it a side chat. We talk about being in the burrow, being out of sorts and on edge and blame the planet...

content note: we only talk about reality TV in this, specifically Vanderpump Rules, but some other shows get a mention We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

We start off and mum is out of sorts, blaming the cold snap 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 c...

And we're straight into the reading with no preamble, as this is part 2 following on from the previous session. It's the skiing episode, where mum goes to hire gear, eats avocado seafood, spaghetti marinara and TWO oysters Kilpatrick, not all at once but YUMMY. The Wimbledon finals are on, and mum is reading a book that it seems can only be mentioned in capitals: BEYOND THE DAWN.  Up on...

we learn what reply guys are. do you know any? We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

In this episode mum goes to Inverloch with friends, is reading the Day of the Jackal, and has cigarettes for breakfast. We start our intro by saying where we are (granny's place in Elsternwick. mum and her siblings have been sorting through things, a big and sad job), and when we are: Tuesday 14 October. Apparently one of the most powerful days in 1000 years for changing your life. I'd l...

Content note: more talk about food and diets + In this episode we find ourselves back in June 1983, and Mum is back from Sydney. The big news is she's moving into a house in nice Camberwell with Granddad (and not into the lounge room of a drug flat in St Kilda!) But before the reading we have a duck update from the Elwood canals, the lowdown on what Mum's working on for her fourth novel...

We talk about how we both think that kids should just eat the food the parents are eating, that they shouldn't have separate meals, and then also talk about tween Lily We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

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 go...

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 commen...