My Mum's Bad Diaries

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 that incorporates metallic fibers. It is typically made by vaporizing a layer of metal (like aluminum, silver, or gold) onto synthetic plastic films, which are then cut into ultra-thin threads.' Well that sounds scary.Mum's reading throug a VUAC book (listing the uni courses, we think it stands for Victorian University (we get that bit right and then go off piste), it's Admissions Committee, not whatever we say. She wants to apply for a few courses including photography and journalism. Not letting a little thing like the theft of her Canon keeping her down for long!Along with all that she's still working at Leader and keeping irregular hours. She buys the Superlash mascara. Patrick rings and she writes 'he was a cutie'. WOAH.There's more nachos (naturellement, mon ami), then a visit to Patrick's place and in the notes here: 'Music sting' haha. They're leaving notes for each other all over the place it seems, including on cars. I tell mum about the 'fixing spray' trick in dating but it seems like 1983 mum doesn't need my tips: there's the delivery of a single red rose and a card saying TIME IS FREE. A first date, to Apocalypse Now (such a boy movie, I try not to chortle) and the reading of a book 'Patrick lent me' : a Jim Morrison bio.What fascinates me is the almost immediate integration of family and friends. Like there's no waiting for months, no real 'dating' as we think of it now. Just lots of kebabs and beer takeaways and driving around. But it's cute!Listen in a fortnight for Part 2 where it gets really interesting! It's romantic! I cry!ENJOY.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 questions! Send us a text!

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 robberies. She's sleeping with her 'trusty Stay-sharp knife', a classic '80s product it sounds like. Watching All The Rivers Run on tv, keeping the ongoing irregular hours, writing about Richard Gere in her diary: this is the day-to-day life of my mum.There's the new job too at the Palais in St Kilda. The ESSO annual ball (good tippers); the KFC annual ball (shit tippers) and then a long section of writing where mum ponders what she wants to mean to the world. There's a new plan: to live in Hollywood for a few months (thanks Jackie Collins!) and then a literary dinner at the Palais.Finally a day in mid-October that she describes as 'exciting, traumatic, hectic and fun'. A dinner with granddad that goes awry and involves an argument and tears, a party in Kew where mum loses her purse and 'meets a boy' (PATRICK!). Driving around Melbourne in the rain picking up Liz from a party, dropping her at Ashburton and then running into granddad, driving him home to Camberwell and then back to the party, all with Patrick along for the ride! Mum finds her purse! They go to Patrick's for 'coffee' and it really is coffee, they don't even kiss.Then the next day mum is feeling sick and thinking about Jay and I wonder how much of an impression Patrick even made???Listen in to hear how things go. We have entered the Patrick era.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 questions! Send us a text!

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 watching shows like 'I want to be a nun' and wondering whether granddad is, he's out late and sometimes doesn't home! And the Melbourne Show is on, and mum takes herself off with her camera to take pics for the folio, but ends up only taking ONE. She thinks now, from her 2026 viewpoint, that she was probably lacking in confidence, but then granddad gives her her money. Is this the $800 he owed her? The diary does not say.Mum manages to get a job at the Palais -- she turns up thinking it's an interview but he tells her to get changed and start on the floor. She does drinks waitressing and gets $4 in tips and then promptly loses $2.We talk about Buffy as a name and can't think what proper name it's a diminutive for, but we googled since recording: ELIZABETH.During this episode mum goes to see Sydney ska band Allniters twice (once at somewhere called the 'Prozzie Hill' and the other at The Prince Of Wales, I know that place!! And there a 'cute guy' asks mum to a party in Fitzroy but she doesn't go, there's that lack of confidence again.Hawthorn beats Essendon in the Grand Final, mum goes to Inflation and the America's Cup start is postponed. There are vol-au-vents for lunch (!!!) and 1 x oysters kilpatrick and 1 x spaghetti marinara, not all together.Cat Sid gets sick and mum makes a note to buy 'Yardley black eyeliner (soft)'. We talk about the history of eyeliner in some detail, from the ancient Egyptian times to Amy Winehouse, mum tells me about a show called Return to Eden, we discuss our questionable work ethic, and then Australia wins the America's Cup and mum's work (Leader) bring out the champers at 11AM. Wild.The F-Plan diet appears again, and mum is really happy to tape the end of a song on the radio. Then the house is broken into, and mum's camera is stolen. Two days later the house is broken into again and while mum deals with CIB cops, Sid is diagnosed with cat flu. Must have been all the outdoor prowling he was doing.Poor Sid! Poor mum! Dramatic times!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 questions! Send us a text!

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 reading. Back in 1983 Mum writes in her diary that she's a bit depressed, she gets her period and hasn't been to Golden Bowl in a while. She's still reading The Hite Report, and leaving the window open for Sid to get back into the house at night. Mum talks about wanting to laugh more and we acknowledge how easy it is to lose the silliness and playfulness of younger years, and how men are good for experiencing this. Yes, you read it correctly. Men are good! They don't sit around talking about their feelings all the time.Jay from skiing pops up in mum's dreams, and probably because she's reading back through her diaries, to the time a few months ago when she was up at the snow. And in addition to boy yearning, she has money problems. Granddad hasn't paid her - he owes her $800! - and she's drinking lemon squash at the pub and borrowing from friends (to go out to dinner... mmm...) And then there's a 'big fight with dad' at 1.45am one morning. Light on details as usual!Mum runs out of petrol in Box Hill, on the way to Leader, and leaves the Beetle there and catches a taxi to work, probably using a CabCharge docket. When she rescues the car the nice RACV man loans her $3 worth of petrol. She has chops and dried biscuits for dinner and watches Barefoot in the Park, and goes to RMIT open day for the photography course she wants to do next year. With an intake of only 28 students it will be competitive, but she is determined! Go mum!America's Cup is on, and then there's a late dinner with granddad in Lygon Street, after 1.30am which is mad, as well as continuing work cycles of typing one invoice per fortnight and having to get his saline for his contacts.THEN there is a cultural moment where mum has Mexican food for the first time, at Taco Bills. We think this is the first time she's ever had nachos. She finds it amazing.As always, listen to experience: cringe, giggles and some real-life shit.Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries and thanks for listeningWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

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 of a lord). We talk costumes and even get onto sumptuary laws. Hamnet gets a mention but most of our time is spent on Wuthering Heights, sorry 'Wuthering Heights'. Enjoy.We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

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 summer and am exploring some therapies - reiki, massage and therapy therapy! My challenge is how to learn to be settled in one place, I think there are some shifts! We have a quick Summer House recap because we can't help ourselves (our girl Ciara! Westling! (quite a cool name), and this leads onto a chat about standards, and the eternal conversation about women and men.Then it's onto the diary reading and back to 1983, Golden Bowl aerobics, videos at Camberwell and shopping at Ojay! I notice that mum's doing a lot of driving as per usual, and she has vol-au-vents again as well (we did too, the night before this recording, as evidenced on our insta account). There's lunch at Berlitz Cafe in 'town' (does not turn up in a google search), dinner at Cafe Sport in Lygon Street (doesn't come up with google search either).Mum does some SCV work and types an invoice and puts $10 deposit on a dress at Ojay, and goes to see Breathless with Richard Gere (famous blink actor, and we're reminded of Ryan in The OC, another eye actor). She loves Breathless, she loves Richard Gere. Of course there's a No Nonsense gig and I ask mum were there ever any new songs, she says maybe sometimes but people liked the old ones they could dance to. Then she's out to Eltham with granddad to a house built by ex-prisoners where she drinks 'beanshooty tea' and negotiates the purchase of a bohemian lampshade. I'm confounded by how mum can be so sangfroid about these interactions... she thinks it's her Gemini moon.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 questions! Send us a text!

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 experience: cringe, giggles and some real-life shit.Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries and thanks for listeningWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

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 Cancers are high in the numbers.As always, listen to experience: cringe, giggles and some real-life shit.Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries and thanks for listeningWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

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 and how hard it is to choose paint (the best pink is Taubman's Cristabel btw, save yourself some swatches and samples: https://www.taubmans.com.au/paint-colours/pinks-and-reds/cristabel-F8E8E3) and we also touch on mum's knee, her tarot obsession and how exhausted we both feel. Also, did you know Cancers are mentioned in the Epstein files more than 1200 times (mum is quite smug that Sagg is only mentioned 4 times). We touch on Paris Fashion Week, Max the 10-yo and Matières Fécales which mum calls Satanic but then a day after recording actually said she'd read that it was a critique of all things modern and extreme.Then it's on to the diary reading and we're back in 1983, and one day mum's reading Princess Daisy (chick lit) and the next They Used Dark Forces (her favourite Satanist novels). She's planning a school reunion with friends and also manages to meet Gerry, a 'professional fashion photographer' and they 'exhange business cards' which is lol. The photographer says he did the Aquasun ad (we can't find it online) and also shot Isabella Cowan which we did find (see Vogue Australia June 1980 and she also has an insta! She married Peter McNamara the tennis guy).There's a sleazy bet involving Gerry and mum, he tells her she has nice hair, but mum's suss and just focuses on going to Golden Bowl and Karl of Switzerland to get her hair 'tipped'. There's a party in Prahran with a 'Sid Vicious' cutie Ben, the typing of a single invoice and delivery of it to Leader in Blackburn.Granddad pitches another bookshop idea this time with a different girlfriend running it with mum and a plan to go to New Guinea????Mum sees Flashdance twice -- she tells me it's about a girl who's a welder by day and dancer by night -- and goes to posh drinks at the Hilton Hotel. There's more No Nonsense including a drunk night in Glenroy. One more spaghetti marinara for the tally and we get sidetracked by a great business idea: an '80s-themed aerobics/cocktail/movie night hotspot. Seed investors: GET IN TOUCH1Finally, an emotional dinner with granddad who cries over a poem written for him, and mum tells me the other times he cried: over football and an obscure town in France which Australian soldiers 'saved' in one of the wars.Oh and here's a recipe for a Fluffy Duck cocktail:30ml Advocaat30ml white rum15ml Cointreau30ml creamShaken with ice, topped with lemonade.(Not made with Creme de Menthe, not green. 25-50% accuracy!!)+As always, listen to experience: cringe, giggles and some real-life shit.Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries and thanks for listeningWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

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 listeningWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

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 initiative and the changes it would create for workplace culture. We like the sound of it!Meanwhile in 1983 Doraine is back on the scene, mum's going to see the Allniters and No Nonsense for a change, and she's disillusioned about relationships without even having had one - she's just observing everyone around her. But to keep herself occupied she's thinking about getting her hair 'tipped' and putting polish on her nails at 4am cause that's what you do when you only have to do little bits of work now and then. She goes skiing at Buller (see insta for pics of that trip) and there's a little Jay angst, maybe triggered by being back in the snow country. She gets described as reggae/punk at a party (and is quite pleased it seems), drinks coffee at Toppolinos and now is reading Princess Daisy, a bit of a change from Christiane F.We finish the episode by again commenting on how interesting it is that diaries as a form of record and expression, that whatever the function or intention, we edit as we go. Mum says there are details she hasn't put in that she clearly remembers (like the penis on stage during Equus) and likewise there are things that are in the diaries that she just does not remember at all. We think that's ... interesting.This is the second last episode for the year. We're hoping to have a Christmas special for you in the lead up to Chrissy Day.+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 questions! Send us a text!

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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 planets. Mum talks about her 2025 obsessions: the Brontes, hacking and the more recent one: Tarot. My obsession with Dramione continues but did have a bit of a pause there for a while.Onto the reading, it's July 1983 and mum finally buys her photographic darkroom equipment, sets it up in the laundry then goes to dinner at Lygon St. We talk about grandad's pool of women and how mum manages to get a sunburned face in JULY. But she's happy with her darkroom and printing 'lots' of pictures including one of Sid the cat > check our instagram to see that!In the diary there's a new plan to go to New Zealand to work and ski, and outside the diary in 2025 we talk the new Frankenstein film, neither of us loved it (apart from the aesthetics) don't come at us!!!Mum's still reading Christiane F 'the drug book', the beetle runs out of petrol, mum goes to the office and 'does some typing', and is still sleeping in and still staying up late. She goes to see a play, Equus, at Monash Uni and there's a man naked on stage. She sees Apocalypse Now for the first time and loves it, and the episode ends with her dropping someone from Sydney off at the Aquarius Budget Motel in Carlise Street, St Kilda.This is part 1 of the reading session. Part 2 will follow next week.+As always, listen to experience: cringe, giggles and some real-life shit.Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries and thanks for listeningWe'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 cold hot tub crush. Back in Melbourne there's a lot of shopping, mum gets a cold AND her period, and there's dinner at Le Secouf again with the ex fake wife.There's Lygon St, a couple of cops who break into a car to move it (because it's boxed mum's car in where she parked in a laneway) there's the Espy and a young Irish guy telling mum he loves her, upon sighting her.We talk stalking these days v the old days, how many ships in the night there were back in the '80s, and mum makes a list of why she might expect to hear from Jay.Mum and I wonder whether guys pine the way we do, and we talk about how women can obsess, how it just doesn't seem like a fair playing field. And then a list of reasons why Jay may NOT get in touch.Mum's really in her video era: there's many trips to the video library and many watchings and rewatching of films, a sign of early binge tendencies. A new age!Mum says she's starting a photography course on 1 August but then there's a plan to go to Auckland and work there for a few months. Also a plan for a bookshop in Melbourne. All over the shop.A day's skiing at Mt Buller and bent stocks -- remember to lift them up when the chairlift approaches the ground again kids!!Locked out of the car in the carpark and two nice guys in a panel van next door give Mum and E some hot milo. Mum says they were very kind but neither of us mention the risks of taking a drink from strangers, apparently not a thing to even think about back in the '80s???And we finish the reading with finishing Volume 5. I won't say we're racing through but we are getting them done, slowly.Happy listening and next ep we're on to Vol 6.As always, listen to experience: cringe, giggles and some real-life shit.Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries and thanks for listeningWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

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 the slopes there's an Austrian ski instructor who is predictably handsome and named Alouise, $17 lift tickets (ah '80s prices!!) and a boy called Jay who mum insists on sitting in a cold spa with at least once. There's some flirting -- we think -- who can be sure with the level of detail that's brought to us in the diaries, and we chat about crushing on strangers and how men don't really understand or need signs... they just act if they want to, mostly. Time to leave and there's car trouble with the VW and how to do a hill start. We talk more generally about how it is to go back and re-read diaries -- I never have and my number of volumes number in the 50s. Finally, we wonder how things will look next March, and where I'll be. I do have a wildcard up my sleeve!+As always, listen to experience: cringe, giggles and some real-life shit.  Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries and thanks for listeningWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

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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 like a little more notice though. I am unprepared.Mum is sick and thinks it's because she ate a whole bag of licorice allsorts. Maybe her immune system didn't cope with the sugar influx. Then it's on with the reading. It's June 1983, and I learn that Australia had Norgen Vaaz ice cream, a riff on and rip off of Haagen Dazs ice cream. Who knew! Not me! We talk about the similarities between the Trading Post and Facebook Marketplace, and how going back to school feels years after you've left. Mum's reading a book called Total Fitness and is getting a bit spooked in the new big house in Camberwell. John McEnroe is still causing trouble at Wimbledon and Mum is watching a lot of films (the era of the video library has arrived!) -- Caligula, Jaws, The Sting and The Education of the Baronness -- one of granddad's. Then mum steps on some glass in the kitchen and has to go get it taken out at a medical clinic. There's a nice meal at the family French restaurant (Le Surcouf? Le Secouf? sp??) with the NZ fake ex wife and her daughter, and a ski trip is in the planning.As always, listen to experience: cringe, giggles and some real-life shit.Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries and thanks for listeningWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

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 LilyWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

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 and I manage to out myself as a writer as well.o onto the diary reading. Mum's packing for the move, she's sleeping in her fingerless gloves -- she tells her diary, as if that's soooo cool -- and eating midnight pizza and souvlaki at Twins, a Lygon St institution that's no longer there. Granddad is dating someone called Gloria and Mum has no memory of this person. She's too busy looking at the Trading Post for photographic equipment, driving Liz to dancing class, and working out which colour doona cover to get: BLACK, and which colour to paint her bookcase: ALSO BLACK which is all VERY PUNK of her.She gives up smoking for a whole 4 days, is reading broadly from The Faraway Tree to The Day of the Jackal (literally) and notes that she's read 59 books so far in 1983. She moves into Camberwell and there's a five x 7-11 hunt for macaroni and cheese. After that, the first meal mentioned is Chinese at Louie's in Camberwell, the second meal mentioned is mashed potato and home and then the third meal mentioned is back at Ashburton. Things are tough when you move out for the first time at 19!!Mum notes that Dallas is very dramatic, and -- get this -- a highlight of the reading is the delivery of a colour TV and VCR which means video libraries are not far away! There are downsides to living with Granddad, and one is having to 'get nails' for his bedroom window (whatever that means) but the perks are having dinner with him at Cafe Sport in Carlton, where Mum has something called an avocado vinaigrette and she has to explain what this is to me. Then there's a trip to Inverloch where lots of port is consumed and Mum is happy that she has lots of books to read. All is well in her world even though 2025 Mum is concerned by her drinking back then.+As always, listen to experience: cringe, giggles and some real-life shit.Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries and thanks for listeningWe'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 good nick (apparently, there are a few hiccups on the road including the 'G' light goes on. What does that mean, Mum and her friends wonder).They have a great time in Sydney, staying in King's Cross, drinking lots of beer (and an incredibly expensive martini for $4.60. Mum doesn't like it but which 19 -year-old does like a martini??) Also she sees Simon, but we don't get a lot of info about it (surprise surprise). There's a WILD night in Wodonga on the way up which sees 9 people packed into the beetle, as well as less than 3 hours sleep for mummy.An extended treatise on I Dream of Jeannie, the taping of records, and A NEW KITTEN. Mum makes a lot of assumptions that Gran will be on board with this - no wonder she was very strict with me about animals.And if you're wondering about the title of this episode, mum finds herself quite happily third wheeling her friend Sarah's romance with Phil from Allniters... the three of them even go to the revolving restaurant in Sydney for dinner!Meanwhile granddad is ringing mum to say he's got a house she can move in to - bye Sandi! - and granny is actually sending a postcard to the motel in the Cross. Typical granny!And then it's back to Melbourne and the reality of finishing the computer course, packing to move out and looking after an 8-week old kitten called Sid.+As always, listen to experience: cringe, giggles and some real-life shit.Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries and thanks for listeningWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

*** 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) and mentions that she's using a 'Safeway Bag' as a handbag (which needs some unpacking lol see what I did there). She goes to see SCUM at the Ballroom, and talks about the girl who has a $20,000 'contract out on her'. Words like 'scrag' are used, and there's a fight outside the Ballroom. Between two girls. I talk about how I've never seen a fight in my life - at school there was one time when two boys were going to fight but a teacher walked by and nothing happened and the guys looked relieved haha.Then we're back at the 'Punt Road squat' - to me this feels so squalid and punk. Mum notes in her diary her three favourite actresses: Meryl Steep, Katherine Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. Meanwhile she's smoking and reading at work and - oh- types two invoices!Then it's off for a date with this mystery Rod from Yarrawonga. Wait til you hear how they 'met'.Mum's still doing the computer course, still checking real estate. She falls out of bed head first - remember she's on the top bunk.There's Irene's psychedelic party to get ready for, and reading Dennis Wheatley's The Satanist, and ongoing planning for Sydney in 18 days!!! +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 questions! Send us a text!

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 comments or questions! Send us a text!

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 readings? Well, they are timeless. But these days when we record we seem to go for hours and so have to split the gold! As well, I'm all over the place (Seattle-London-Antalya) while Mum is actually bed bound. We're not up to that yet in the podcast. But yes, another horse fall but this time so uncanny and ridiculous; did not match the injury! She's fine but we'll talk about that at a later time.)To the episode!We talk about a new passion of ours: line dancing. We talk about eating Nepalese food in Brunswick. We talk about how triggered I used to get during the Lion King Mufasa death scene and we'd have to ffwd.Then it's onto a SIDE CHAT about Dramione - Harry Potter fan fiction, or more precisely Draco-Hermione fanfic. We've taken it out of the main episode so you don't have to suffer through it if you're not into it. (We stand for consent even if the fanfic often doesn't.)Into the diary reading, it's 1983: mum's talking about restarting something called Image Fix Fanzines with her new friend Sandy (Mum's had a look online, can't find anything about it). There's a gig at the Aberdeen Hotel in Fitzroy to take some photos of (guess who) No Nonsense. She's still house-hunting with Sandy, and Dee might also move in. There's a mysterious call from 'Rod' in Yarrawonga and for a minute we think it's skinhead Rod (spoiler: it's not), and there's a fight with my uncle that results in spilled apple cider, whatever that means. Was there shoving? We don't know.Mum banks a $500 cheque - woo hoo and we talk about how cheques worked. She tapes the punk show on PBS, plans the Sydney trip with her friends, and talks about the 'new space-age phones with press button dialling' at work.We marvel at how technology has changed since the '80s.+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 questions! Send us a text!

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 3 months and I'm kinda impressed. Though her reading is funny: she toggles between Sex Pistols books and Jill's pony series. Cute.Simon seems to have vanished off the face of the earth and we think mum maybe sent another letter, and she worries in the diary that she's 'scared him off'. But not to worry, there a Triple Ska night at the Ballrooms, and a 'fight' between Skins and Mods versus Yobs at the Scene Club. And if that wasn't enough: No Nonsense are going on Hey Hey It's Saturday, a show with an ostrich puppet that mum insists wasn't for children. I don't get it.+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 questions! Send us a text!

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 @mumsbaddiaries and thanks for listening!We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

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 kettle back in Ashburton years ago, one of the old ceramic Hecla electric kettles. (In the ep we don't know the name but we Googled since!) I also hear about a yacht problem-solving time at Lakes Entrance, and we mention the Bennington College podcast, which we're listening to on our morning walks. Mum catches you up on her latest horse fall and a CT scan. Also a pocket knife story from when she was about 10.Alma has had a lion cut and it was traumatic for everyone, and we talk about Severance and the finish of the season (in fact we get testy with each other as we totally disagree about it. SPOILER warnings obvs, and you can hear that little argument in the SIDE CHAT). Put it this way: I was burned by LOST.In the reading, mum has a drug talk with granny and Paddy (or probably they talk to her, because she is coming home at all hours and going to parties where people are doing heroin... fair that granny might be worried!)She's also hanging out with people who steal cigarettes from the Prince of Wales, so there's that as well. Seeing more bands, at the Chevron, still on apartment hunt, and I do feel sorry for my aunty as mum was climbing into her top bunk sometimes at six in the morning, when the poor bottom bunk girl had school!+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 questions! Send us a text!

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 to another party, in Lygon Street. Getting into punk: there's bands called Justifiable Hatred, Depression. You get the idea. She goes to Smear's house in Caulfield and Spike's house too, and we wonder whether these are private school boys just going through their own punk phases, PROBABLY! And to top all that off, there's Rat's 21st party to look forward to.And with plans to go to Sydney at the end of April, it's just all happening.Woo hoo.+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 questions! Send us a text!

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!We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

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 @mumsbaddiaries and thanks for listening!We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

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, mum is obsessed with getting rid of the matted bits in her hair ('dreadlocks' she calls them. Sure.)She's thinking about Simon a lot. There a day of car trouble. We talk '80s cheque and banking conventions as well as the virtues of a leopard skin dressing gown. Oh and there's a $1 deposit on a 'fab Strummer* jacket' at another op. shop.Lots of looking for flats and there's one in Kew that has caught mum's heart, while she also tries to do computers, which means reading a BASIC programming book and going to a night course.Fun times in 1983!* Joe Strummer from the Clash+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 questions! Send us a text!

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 Bret Easton Ellis are seeing the Psychedelic Furs. (I don't know who they are of course!)We continue straight on with the reading. The letter from Simon has come and Mum show the influence of his writing style in her diary entries, with lots of 'n's and dropped g's... it's embarrassing but totally understandable.Expecting to be doing some driving *if* Simon comes down for a weekend, Mum fills the car with petrol and then YES Simon rings at 5.45pm, asking for to be picked up at 7.15pm. They go to the Ballroom and see the Psychedelic Furs upstairs (and in a cross-time, international parallel; we're listening to the Bennington College podcast and Bret Easton Ellis also talks about seeing the Psychedelic Furs in 1983. Wow!) There's books (Dick Francis, The Dice Man); films (The Clash's Rude Boy, Emily with Koo Stark -- Mum has to explain what all these words mean) and a new obsession in the form of John Lydon's post-Sex Pistols Band, Public Image Limited and a particular song (Flowers of Romance???)And then to finish up, Mum's in bed with the biscuit jar while also trying to glow up with lots of jogging up at the park. There's a fabulous 'leopard skin dressing gown -- double breasted.' There's also the federal election where Bob Hawke gets in AND of course (you thought we forgot?!): NO NONSENSE.Current shows mentioned WITH SPOILERS: Severance, White Lotus, Southern Charm, Love is Blind and Inception the film.And we think people who are dating men should have a look at Daddy Academy: He's on Instagram but you can also find him on TikTok.See you next time!+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 questions! Send us a text!

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 girlfriends down at Queenscliff and the big fires are happening. Gran is ringing worried but all mum seems to care about is reading a new book Tom, being interested in a photography course, the F-Plan Diet and the No Nonsense merch: yoyos!Mum's also waiting for a letter from Simon from Bristol, who's gone tobacco picking, and then one arrives!+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 questions! Send us a text!

We continue our Boxing Day bed-chat with an up-to-date missive from Haworth, epicentre of Bronte Country. We talk about our visit to the Parsonage Museum, the church where Patrick Bronte was the minister. We also talk about our walk on the moors, up to Top Withens, the setting for the house Wuthering Heights in the book. We're now on hiatus until March next year. Join us then for Season 4!!We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

We're in the UK. lying in bed on Boxing Day after a big lunch yesterday, lots of British Bake Off, and -- believe it or not -- church and needle point.How very Bronte of us.We are in fact in Haworth, village of the Bronte sisters, but in this part 1 we catch you up on our travels since early November.We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

This is part 3, and we’re straight into the reading (continuing on from last episode). It's a short episode 22, and Mum is in a shit with Granddad though it’s unclear what about. She tries to drive to Black Rock beach and can’t find Black Rock beach!Then heading back home ,there’s the wall of dust, yes! Melbourne’s historical dust storm that turned the streets black with the dirt blown from the Mallee. Hottest Melbourne day ever: 42.3 degrees. And while there’s always exact attention paid to the date at the beginning of each diary entry, things are light on the detail front when it comes to filling all of us in about an argument with Roger. As Mum writes: ‘Haven’t heard from dad, time will tell.’But back to Simon: it’s six days until Valentine’s Day and Mum is hopeful. Plus she finds $5 on the dance floor at a No Nonsense gig at the Village Green: worthy of celebration! Lily: Aren’t you bored of seeing No Nonsense? But I am amazed at 1983 prices: a glass of red wine at Leo’s in St Kilda: 70 cents! More bands, more NN, Corpse Grinders, Allniters and even UB40, from the UK.And wrapping up with a trip to Queenscliff with girlfriends. All the good '80s fun-times!!!!!Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

Simon is gone and Mum’s trying not to write about him in her diary! So she plays guitar and goes to see bands, and of course watches TV – The Partridge Family, Gidget, Young Doctors and Rock Around the World, and Carson’s Law.We have the vivid summer memory of picking up the school books from Campion and we also have ‘yet another dinner stuffed at the Dragon Phoenix’ with Grandad/Roger.We become confused by ‘mewing’ and all-round Gen Alpha terms before getting back to the ‘80s and Mum’s burgeoning dreadlocks – you read that right, she wants hair like Nina Hagen and Ari Up. Oh and we hear about Mum’s idea for a novel which is pretty cringe – there’s ‘Anna’ and ‘Miguel’ and a kidnapping Count on the horizon!Links for mentions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Partridge_Familyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gidget_(TV_series)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Doctorshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson%27s_LawT.I.S.M https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TISMhttps://www.languagetransfer.org/Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

We learn a lot about stone in this episode!This is part 1 of a mega recording push, with part 2 to publish on 19 December and part 3, well we'll publish that on the same day as part 2. Why not, it's the festive season.Lily has the imam and his wife coming to afternoon tea and her linen pants are ruined because of stone dust after visit to the stone men. Yes it’s an update on Lily’s life in south of Turkey where she’s living with her father, and we also have Jenny’s current fixation on a couple of Australian celebrities…We talk about boundaries in relationships and how important they are, and how nobody talks about them (or we’re only just starting to now). And a couple of questions: Have we lost the art of short term flings, or love affairs? Will Andrew Garfield and Chicken Shop Date girl, Amelia Dimoldenberg, get it together?As well, there’s a slightly disappointing Adam Ant reveal... grand plans and all that.Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

Content note: mention of sexual assaultIt’s still January 1983 and we wonder: skin diving – is it a thing?We continue straight on with part 2 of the reading, continuing from last episode.There’s more about the Sydney trip and it seems it might be off due to parental opposition, but then just as quickly, it’s back on again. And there’s a struggle to cook eggs for Simon from Bristol, and then Jenny… drives Simon home. Again.Shortly after, down at Inverloch, she starts reading The Story of O, Pauline Reage and then there’s the first mention of roll-your-own cigarettes. Jenny manages to lock the keys in the car twice and also manages to get picked up on Middle Park Beach by two German tourists, Wolfgang and Michael. Meanwhile Simon is away picking tobacco in rural Victoria. And of course there’s another mohair cardigan on lay-buy.It’s just all happening.Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

This is part 1 of this recording, with part 2 publishing in a fortnight. We start off with a Lily travelogue update including a Britboy update, also a Jenny riding – and falling – update And then we’re back in January 1983. Jenny is trying to tidy her room, she plans to drive to Sydney in the VW Beetle with her friends and her mum is opposing the idea. Finally also there’s some Simon from Bristol action but Jenny is wary. She organises to defer uni and then goes on a date.Talk about a happening Jan!Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

In this segment from our 8JUN record, Lily tells us a bit more about britboy. Does he see her as a pocket girlfriend, or is it her who sees him as a pocket bf? These are only some of the questions Jenny has... Listen in for the lowdown. (Apologies for being so late with this, we had to wait a bit... had it hidden on patreon but NO ONE LISTENED.)Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

** Content note: a bit of weight talkIt's another side chat and it's all TV... we talk Kardashians, ozempic, the crab theory, and choosing unsuitable people. There's a BritBoy update along with more relationship insights. The big question is, though: how many times can Jenny say 'cinque terre'???Link you probably won't be interested in but here they are anyway:Indy Clinton on tiktokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@indyclinton?lang=enKardashians5 seasons on DisneyMillions of earlier seasons on HAYUthe crab theorythere's the 'crab mentality' as described in this blog postand then there's what Lily was talking about, the idea that given long enough evolutionarily, we will all develop into crustaceans. you can read about that delightful and very non-nightmarish idea here.We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

*** Content note: mention of suicideWe’re back to diaries and it’s late December 1982… Jenny has a new-found ambition to be a ‘successful musician’ (because she learned some chords), and to get a job in London. She hates ‘everyone’ because they don’t ‘take her seriously’. Ah, to be 19 and totally delulu. She goes to the Ballroom, for the ‘Punk Revival’ night; sees bands Genocide, Depression and The Boot Boys. Jenny tells Lily about finding a No Nonsense page on Facebook, run by Richard, lead singer. There’s a beach party at Middle Park, she’s reading Lolita (‘very interesting’) and there’s a discussion about the idea of ‘ethical reading’, with a lengthy Nabokov tangent. We talk sculpture, and Bellini, and then it’s back to the Ballroom and Simon from Bristol is on the scene. A Christmas party at Jenny’s cousins, then Inflation for a boog.Simon from Bristol (let’s call him SFB) gives Jenny and Dee a guitar lesson in true 1980s flirt-fashion; they learn the Clash’s White Riot which is basically two chords. Jenny mentions wanting to buy some new records: Derek and Clive’s Ad Nauseum, and the Damned’s New Rose. She recommends looking up the video on youtube: ‘it’s good!’Then we have one of J’s origin moments: when the guy tries to push her in the pool but she doesn’t let him: she pushes him in! Haha, it’s SFB!Then it’s NYE ’82 with a Hawaiian-themed night at the Aberdeen Hotel, with No Nonsense playing, and Off Beats. J ‘beats’ Dickie’s girlfriend to the midnight kiss. Then it’s off to Tony the sax player’s sister’s place in Rathdowne Street for a party. The night is long, with Jenny and Dee walking up the hill home in Ashburton at 7.30am. See, even the mothers can rage!We have some links if you're interested:Article when googled: ‘Would Lolita be published now, what was the reception?’https://lithub.com/how-would-the-publishing-world-respond-to-lolita-today/Giovanni Bellini, Italian sculptorhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_BelliniDepression (punk band)https://beat.com.au/depression/Genocide (maybe) (another punk band)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_HopkinsonLocal identity Debbie Dinosaur who let Jenny and Dee dress up in her vintage '60s mod clothes one night:https://2017.mpavilion.org/collaborator/debbie-nettleingham/https://www.flickr.com/photos/3rrr/30498329763Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

Content note: mention of EDs and weightWe catch up with Lily’s reading, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, SPOILERS obvs but it was published yonks ago, unbanned also yonks ago, so we don’t feel responsible for any spoiling. Other cultural touchstones mentioned:Twilight – books and filmsHarry PotterThe Smart-less Podcast and their interview with Kristen StewartThe Jill’s pony books by Ruby FergusonMortal Instruments series Vampire AcademyTrue BloodDead Until Dark, the Charlene Harris series of books that True Blood based onBuffy And then there's:How Stephenie Meyer was the first to deal with teen themes of love and romanceAmerican Sweethearts, Victoria as a tragic characterSouthern Charm and the Lewis Ice Bag and mallet We also talk about:Parents who kiss their children on the lips a la the Beckhams, children and boundaries with body autonomy, why the world is obsessed with blondes and thinness?An abrupt ending where Lily struggles to get out of her building and Jenny is left asking if she can hear… Bueller? Bueller? Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesFollow Jenny at  @jenny_ackland Click to head to our website to read more about My Mum’s Bad Diaries We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

In this catch up, Lily dials in from Ortigia, Sicily to talk about having deliberate alone time, needing to find the balance between being with people and being on her own in a mindful way. There's also 2nd thoughts about going to London for the Henley Regatta and to see Britboy, along with lots of insights and learning. We talk about the perils of a long-distance thing (not even a r'elationship'), the feeling of being in limbo, and the art of detachment. The concept of 'leaving quietly'.Do we need to have as many boundaries with ourselves as we do with others?What would 25 dates in the shortest amount of time be like?Why do we do this to ourselves?We consider all the big questions here at MMBD.Accounts that might be interesting to you:The Daddy AcademySasha.withloveTikTok tarots:Danielle IngenitoALI's TarotSecret TarotFollow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesFollow Jenny at  @jenny_ackland Click to head to our website to read more about My Mum’s Bad DiariesWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

In this recent recording from last week, we chat about Lily's housesitting for 10 days in the wonderful English countryside. Horses fish birds vegies flowers summer heat and a feral cat, as well as a gorgeous Tudor house. Tudor, not 'Tudor-style'.Lily also visits a historical house nearby, rambles the country lanes and picks blackberries from the bushes. All very Thomas Hardy.Warning: there is a seriously tortuous discussion towards the end about some kind of cowboy novel that we just can't think of. Listen at your own peril. It's quite Kafkian and probably very annoying.Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesFollow Jenny at  @jenny_ackland Click to head to our website to read more about My Mum’s Bad DiariesWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

Content note: fat talk, food talk, beauty talkIn this episode, Lily learns what it means to have a bad fringe.Starting off, we have a Lily update and catch up where she’s at in the world, her filler/scar/fringe updates (see fringe pics on insta) and then move onto the diary reading from 5 December 1982.Jenny’s life, she says, is ‘reading, writing, listening to music and going out’… pretty typical for most almost-nineteen year olds. She doesn’t really want a job in a shop or restaurant; she wants to ‘be creative’. Also, she is entering the guitar phase and in this episode purchases not one but two electric guitars. There’s more CB eyeballs, the continuing rise of ambition, going to the tennis (it is the Australian Open, despite Jenny thinking it wasn’t), cutting ‘little spikes’ in the top of her hair. The Volkswagon Beetle ‘needs a new valve’ and is going to get panel-beaten by a mechanic named Bruno. On the live music front, Jenny sees Hugo Race in Plays with Marionettes at the Seaview Ballroom, calling Hugo ‘incredible’ and ‘a genius’. (Small segue here: Hugo Race also played with Nick Cave, and with Nick Barker who was Dee’s sister’s boyfriend at one stage! Hugo also had a small role in Dogs in Space, and a friend of Jenny’s from drama at college also had a small role. Connections!)But back to the diaries. Jenny is annoyed by the gender stereotypes she identifies around her (though she doesn’t have that language to describe it). She goes to see the Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle, sees Class of 1984 and buys the first electric guitar from ‘Shower Peter’ from the CB. A few days later, she buys some combat boots and a second guitar from ‘Anglesea Harry’. She’s reading Christiane F, still going to the Spaghetti Tree, spending $10 at the newsagents and drinking a whole bottle of claret on her own. Oh and there’s Midnight Oil at the Astor Theatre, a new t-shirt design, playing tennis on the road, going to the Aberdeen Hotel to see her fave boys No Nonsense, her dad Roger being kicked-out from where he’s living, reading Lord Edgware Dies (Ag. Christie) AND meeting Simon from Bristol at a party. Interesting.Extra links:Hugo Race piece in Overland, 2014https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-216/feature-hugo-race/ Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesFollow Jenny at  @jenny_acklandClick to head to our website to read more about My Mum’s Bad DiariesWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

Content note: racially insensitive language, body and weight talk, food talk And we're straight into reading: it’s 28 November 1982  J is working at St Kilda Road, on the general ledgerJ and L still don’t know what a general ledger is so here’s a link from the people who know at Xero:https://www.xero.com/au/glossary/general-ledger/There’s more CB radio talk than there is accounting talk, thankfully. Jenny chats with a whole list of young men (YMs) on the rig, and has another eyeball in the local park, with Jeff (not a train guy). And younger sister Liz is talking to Brett on the radio too. There’s some parallel showering with Peter who sounds like a massive spunk, and also some talk with John, Tony Wombat One, Monique, Paul and train man George. Monique and her boyfriend come over to the house, and Jenny gets tracked down by spunk Peter in his white panel van (or maybe Monique’s boyfriend gave him the address??).Jenny is reading Orwell’s 1984, going to the tennis at Kooyong, getting a sunburned face and watching the last Nightmoves for 1982. She manages to finally do the Leunig t-shirt and goes to the party in Box Hill where she sees the Bad Bros and chats with Vincent, the Zap courier who she quite likes. There’s ‘another anarchist poem’ and Lily tells Jenny that she’s like ‘every 20 year old boy I’ve always hated’ because of her propensity to talk about Pink Floyd’s The Wall.Jenny has thoughts around sex: ‘what’s the point?’ and tips into an existential angst spiral, and revisits her desire to ‘be special’ and ‘be famous’. In non-1982 chat, we talk about the Nickolodeon doco Quiet on Set, the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City and Vanderpump Rules.  Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesFollow Jenny at  @jenny_ackland Click to head to our website to read more about My Mum’s Bad DiariesWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

It’s 24 November 1982 and there were all types of spaghetti restaurants: Tree, Theatre and Graffiti!We go to the Seaview Ballroom in St Kilda, to see Allniters, INXS, Soldiers of Fortune and No Nonsense.We have more sunburn, more disillusionment with uni, more thinking and more existential angst. There’s a bad poem: Do Something, a party upcoming in Box Hill and an English guy at The Ballroom tells Jenny she looks like Janice Joplin. Jenny isn’t sure this is a flattering comparison, but Lily says she’s had a few people tell her she looks like JOHN TRAVOLTA and then Jenny says that when she met Lily’s dad he used the name John and said that people said HE looked like JT as well!Jenny earns $18 at Roger’s work and buys two Juke magazines. She does three Johnny Rotten sketches, we hear more about the Osborne computer and the acoustic coupler. Meanwhile in Turkey, Lily saves a drowning beetle and we reminisce about the AA Milne poem Forgiven, about Alexander the beetle.We hear about Jenny putting off looking for a part-time job, and stunningly she writes: ‘I find things of the past losing value eg Adam’ !!!But nevertheless, life goes on. At the Central Club Richmond, to see more bands, developing a ripe smoker’s cough and getting told by a skinhead to ‘cheer up. Life’s not that bad!’ Reading Indecent Obsession (Colleen McCullough), seeing New Order (‘boring’) and The Saints (‘less so but not fab’) for $8 at the Ballroom, seeing the Bad Bros at the gig, along with stepsister who tells Jenny about Roger being kicked out. ‘At least three other women involved’ doesn’t sound very good. +Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries Follow Jenny at  @jenny_ackland Click to head to our website to read more about My Mum’s Bad DiariesWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

** Content warning: brief mention of self harm/cuttingThis is part 1 of this recording session; next episode publishes in two weeksHave you ever wondered what a 6-hour Whatsapp chat must be like? Join us for a taster! In this episode, Jenny learns more about Lily’s beauty treatments in the South of Turkey, and you're along for the ride. Nails! Hair! Face fillers!We catch up with Lily's movements since we last recorded, and about how she also reverts to ‘child role’ when in a domestic space with her father. She’s made an emergency flight to Antalya, then to where her father lives in Kas to drop off her winter stuff, extra suitcases and pack for European summer.Then it’s some chat about J’s wedding anniversary, and then MORE chat about suitcases, packing, the 4:4:2:1 method which Lily avows she would never use (more like 12:12 or something like that!) Lily’s dad Ali called her a ‘fashion girl’ and Jenny says she’s been a fashion girl since she was four!Then we get deep and Jenny talks about how important it is to say the thing, rather than keep the peace, suppress or self-censor. Especially as women we have to practise saying the thing, and the sooner we can learn to do so, the better for us.Lily takes Jenny into the laundry (and Jenny sees one of her delicates bags – she did give Lily permission to take it but only realised the other day that Lily left behind one with a broken zip…) We end the chat just about to read. Part 2 next time. +Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries  Follow Jenny at  @jenny_ackland Click to head to our website to read more about My Mum’s Bad DiariesWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!

We jump right into the reading as this is essentially part 2 of the last episode where we used up all the time just chatting as we are wont to doWe hear more about the CB radio and Jenny’s addiction to it (there's a 'big fight' with brother Jim because he won’t let her use ‘the rig’. Lily laughs about Jenny using the term ‘the rig’ and rightly so because it’s very 1970s CQ CQ Rubber Ducky trucker talk. But the thing is, Jenny is chatting to Brian and George, local station masters and then in this episode, even organises an ‘eyeball’ (face-to-face meeting) at the Camberwell Hotel. But before that, she goes to a gig at The Sentimental Bloke in Bulleen because her new fave ska band No Nonsense are playing (it’s only incidental that Jenny and Dee stay for the headline act: INXS.)They stand right up the front at the stage, which is only about hip high. No Nonsense are great as usual, and then INXS also good, the highlight being Jenny salvaging a guitar pick (asking a bouncer to get it for her) and Michael Hutchence grabbing Dee’s hat off her head and wearing it for a song (not mentioned in the reading; but has come back from the memory storage facility since recording this episode!) Jenny reads about getting an empty Carlton Draught beer can that Michael drank from at the Uni Beach Ball and sticking it up in the corner of her bedroom as a trophy, where she could look at it (and the guitar pick) from the top bunk.After the gig, Jenny and Dee sit outside and start chatting to a guy (‘really good friends of No Nonsense’ ‘went on the tour with them and Strange Tenants to Sydney’) and he gives them the lead singer’s phone number!And there's more:  dreams (with teeth falling out); and she still doesn’t have the Hobby Tex paint. Jenny recounts her delulu efforts at being a copy writer, and we talk about whether delusion is necessary for anything creative to get done, and also how you can lose the juice by talking about something too much.And now, the eyeball with the train men George and Brian. ‘Brian is funny’ and it seems Jenny might like him, but then she and Dee burn off to The Venetian Room ($5 admission) in the VW Beetle to see No Nonsense who are doing their second gig of the night after supporting INXS (again) at Bombay Rock. ‘We are gradually establishing ourselves with the people surrounding the group.’ Lily asks Jenny why she didn’t become a groupie and Jenny says probably because she was still a virgin. We also hear the first mention of smoking: ‘I’m smoking too much. Ten last night and ten tonight.’ As well as more about t-shirt designs (a really big ‘NO’ and a really small ‘Nonsense’ underneath…)Jenny’s still re-reading The Wolf and the Dove; she goes to a cast party for Godspell and deems it ‘boring’; then heads out to dinner with the family to Spaghetti Graffiti and ‘sulked most of the night’.There you have it. More gigs. More t-shirt ideas. More crushes. More wonderful goings on, from November 1982. Enjoy! Links:Sid Vicious singing My Wayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDyb_alTkMQFollow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries Follow Jenny at  @jenny_ackland Click to head to our website to read more about My Mum’s Bad DiariesWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!