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
161 episodes
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...
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:
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...
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 ('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 ...
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 (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...
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 ...
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' ...
Enter... Patrick (Vol.6, 1983)
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 folde...
Wunderbar Part 1 (Vol.6, 1983)
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 some...
Wunderbar Part 2 (Vol.6, 1983)
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 t...
Initiation (Vol.6, 1983)
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 gumm...
Noodles (Vol.5, 1983)
Content note: diets, food and weight.*It's the first episode of season 4 and this one is all about noodles, breakfast of champions for the young back in 1983. It's February 1983, mum is staying with girlf...
Noodles part 2 (Vol.5, 1983)
Content note: food talk, exercise talk, weight talkApologies the sound quality is NOT GREAT... back to our normal crystal-clear audio next episode!*It's 1983, still Feb and we both Mum and...
Vows and jackets (Vol.5, 1983)
Content warning: LOTS of food and body and weight talk. Also a lot of jacket talk.+Mercury is in retrograde and we're grumpy, but we make it work!! I talk bone brother and village soup recipes while back in 1983,...
SIDE CHAT (mafs)
While MAFS was one of grandad's shows, we'd never watched it until recently! Here's our chat about it, after pounding through most of the episodes within a week.Follow us on Insta
SIDE RANT (Meghan, with love)
What can we say. We hate watched some episodes. Those of you who know us know we don't love the Meghan. Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries and thanks for listening!
Boys called Smear, Spike & Rat (Vol.5, 1983)
Content note carries over from the first part, which was Ep 3 (food, weight, eating, diets etc)+Welcome to the second part of the diary reading, where Mum continues on with her 1983 life. She cooks a roast, she likes Rod, she goes...
Hostile & ravenous (Vol.5, 1983)
This is part 1 of this recording session, with part 2 (Episode 6) to follow in a fortnight.We start our chat with a catch up on Life: but I start out by saying how good mum is at Garage Band, and she tells me how she fixed the family ket...
SIDE CHAT (severance)
Enormous warning about SPOILERS. But if you've seen the second season of SEVERANCE, listen in and see whether you agree with Mum or me, as we disagree on several points!+Follow us on Insta
Pots v pints (Vol.5, 1983)
In 1983, Victorian pubs didn't have pint glasses, it was just a glass or a pot. Who knew? Not me.This is part 2 of the previous recording, where Mum just carries on reading her diary from 1983. It's her first Friday at home for more than...
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...