My Mum's Bad Diaries

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 i...

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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 a...

Content note: in this side chat we talk about offensive racial stereotypes Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries Click to head to our show notes at: mymumsbaddiaries.com We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

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...

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...

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Content note; we talk about sex and there’s also some fatphobic language We 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...

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The Bride Stripped Bare was published by Anonymous in 2003 Nikki 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 author https://www.theage.com.au/national/the-author-stripped-bare-20030628-gdvy9p.html Correction: in the chat Jenny calls it a memoir, but it was a novel (heavily autobiograp...

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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...

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 naught...

Notes for this side chat On 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...

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...

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 TV Official trailer   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWevopoBmAE * We talk about Harry's appearance with James Corden, being down to earth and funny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oxlCKMlpZw Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries Click t...

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...

Content note: we touch on suicide and self harm in passing Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries Click to head to our show notes at: mymumsbaddiaries.com We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

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In this side chat we mention Cal Newport's book Deep Work https://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...

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 driver As always, listen to experience: cringe, giggles and some real-life shit.   Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries We'd l...

Content note: animal violence Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries Click to head to our show notes at: mymumsbaddiaries.com We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!