My Mum's Bad Diaries
You're invited to eavesdrop as a mother reads out her teenage diaries to her daughter. Funny, candid, poignant and brave, this podcast is both living memoir and an investigation into what makes (and breaks) a woman. No scripts, no prep; just 40-year-old (diary) gold being unearthed. Even Jenny doesn't know what's going to come up as she lays bare her inner teen world to her daughter Lilika. Their motto is 'we go there', so what could possibly go wrong?
Episodes
157 episodes
Rob me two times baby (Vol.6, 1983)
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' ...
Snack attacks (Vol.6, 1983)
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 ...
SIDE CHAT (ladies of london)
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 liv...
Mum is broke (Vol.6, 1983)
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!) ...
SIDE CHAT ('wuthering heights', hamnet)
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 ...
Vol-au-vents (Vol.6, 1983)
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 cha...
SIDE CHAT (tv catch up)
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...
SIDE CHAT (virgos and serial killers)
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:
Gerry you sleaze (Vol.6, 1983)
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 thi...
2025 Xmas Chat w/ Lily and Jen
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!
Disillusion (Vol.6, 1983)
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 fr...
SIDE CHAT (vpr rewatch)
content note: we only talk about reality TV in this, specifically Vanderpump Rules, but some other shows get a mention
The hunting ground (Vol.6, 1983)
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 anyo...
One whole invoice (Vol.5, 1983)
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 h...
' "It must be all the hair" ' (Vol.5, 1983)
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 Kilpatri...
SIDE CHAT (reply guys)
we learn what reply guys are. do you know any?
The fake ex wife (Vol.5, 1983)
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 sortin...
SIDE CHAT (lily tween years)
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
So many ports (Vol.5, 1983)
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...
3rd 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 impr...
18 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) an...
SIDE 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 ...
Modern 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 readi...