My Mum's Bad Diaries

*** 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’...

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I find out what the hell ska is...  This episode we have more Mick Jagger dreams, in which Mum introduces him as ‘Michael’(they’re on a first name basis), goes to see Strange Tenants – her first ska 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 , ge...

Content note: weight and diet talk; also brief mention of self harm and sexual assault I find out how many years old Mum was the first time she boiled an egg...  EIGHTEEN! Wild, I've been a master of the boiled egg for over a decade now This 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, writ...

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We discuss: relationships Succession podcast Firecrotch and Normcore volunteering; Jenny wants to do 'service lite' Red Cross blood donations libraries the big destroyer of relationships (according to J's therapist: convention and routine) We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

Lily asks who is writing weird fic these days, Jenny mentions Ali Smith Also 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 t...

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 los...

Content note: contains mention of sexual assault (r*pe) We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

We chat about last week’s episode, about some issues and challenges, and how we're going to proceed with recording We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

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 di...

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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 1981 And 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...

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...

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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...

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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...

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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 t...

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 Ishka We 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...

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 pin...

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