*** Apologies for Lily's sound quality here *** This episode we’re dealing with the tyranny of distance, struggling to find time to record. The solution? Split the episode in two which means in this ep you get quite a bit of chat, with a Lily Paris update and then some TV talk. We hear about the perils of a matte black kitchen, what happened to Lily’s head in Thailand, and something about homesickness (short lived!) How meeting people while travelling is almost the best part, and a consideration...
May 15, 2024•49 min•Season 3Ep. 6
We’re off and running, following on from the previous episode with no intro! And it’s doubly exciting because it’s the beginning of Volume 4! In this episode we cover a lot of ground, in the readings and in the in between bits (IBBs, aka the chat). Jenny skips most of the dreams, Lily says ‘great’. It’s ten days until exams but Jenny’s got other things on her mind: how to pin the tuxedo pants, how to acquire more t-shirts, how to have someone famous love her and how to open a shop (t-shirts natu...
May 01, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Yes, you read the above correctly, we are moving onto volume 4 BUT in this 50+ minute episode we literally only manage less than ten seconds actually reading the diary. The rest will be in episode 5, sorry about that Chief! So what you will actually hear in this ep is stuff like: Lily's struggles to dye her hair; my struggles with ancestry.com; how Lily will be a Mac (Apple) girl forever because of Air Drop; the approach of Lily's 10-year school reunion; a bit of Jenny's grey hair history; the T...
Apr 17, 2024•57 min•Season 3Ep. 4
We're approaching the end of 1st year uni and ALSO the end of Volume 3!! With around 30 volumes to go we aren’t in danger of running out of material any time soon. In this episode Lily shows her ‘scathe’ for Johnny Rotten’s somewhat naïve, 1980s punk philosophy while Jenny’s feeling sorry for a character on ‘80s soap Sons and Daughters. Jenny’s also determined to lay a good foundation for the skin cancer that will rear its ugly head in a few decades time (don’t worry chaps; nothing too serious!)...
Apr 03, 2024•54 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Welcome to the episode with perhaps the most 'cross strings on the FBI wall' yet. Lily and I warm up by talking about the records I’ve recently purchased (as listed in the diaries: Secret Policeman’s Other Ball and Complete Madness) and then get-off topic pretty quickly and onto the recent rival royal appearances of William and Harry: both appearing with top celebs and both in an airspace context (Harry first with John Travolta at the ‘Flying Legends’ awards and then William a week or so later w...
Mar 20, 2024•44 min•Season 3Ep. 2
We're back for the 2024 season! But Lily is out of the country, so we will be moving on the fly to bring you the ba-goodness of My Mum's. Nothing will stop us, not oceans and not time zones. I'm doing the socials, so you'll miss Lily's fine wit but nevertheless, we are here to stay and will keep pumping out our content, even if things look a little different as we go forward. In this episode we spend a lot of time talking and not reading from the 1982 diary - you know how it goes. We talk about ...
Mar 13, 2024•55 min•Season 3Ep. 1
We talk about the new Netflix film 'Leave the World Behind'. Spoilers -- obviously! (Double spoiler: we didn't like it) We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
Dec 21, 2023•24 min•Season 2Ep. 21
I find out… This episode I give a Very Important Health Update (I can’t eat starch or sugar for the next little bit which sucks!), we discuss our thoughts on film Leave the World Behind and the TikTok conspiracies surrounding the movie. We also chat about Wifedom, the amazing book that I’m reading, and read about 1982 Mum still slogging away at her English essay, continuing to listen to 3PBS, and the development of a new crush! Which she writes in the diary in the most cryptic way! Mum also goes...
Dec 21, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 21
I find out… whose jacket Mum burnt a hole in! We chat about Mum’s birthday weekend we just had up at the Yarra Valley, the horse ride we went on up there and Chateau Yering which was just full of character! We also chat about the benefits of the cold shower in the morning (I’m a convert) and how my self-care routine has become a literal full time job. We read about Mum listening to a punk segment on 3PBS, reading Clockwork Orange (can you guess a theme here) and pinning punk ‘beady-pins’ onto he...
Dec 13, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Content warning: we chew peanuts VERY loudly And we have a new, shorter intro which we will record each week. Gets you to the chat and the diary-reading more quickly! I find out that Mum once contemplated taking up smoking a pipe… We read out an email response that Mum received from Nell Campbell (Crabs in Jubilee) after contacting her earlier in the year and fangirling HARD. We chat about my 2024 travel plans, Jamie Oliver being in Melb- I seriously can’t believe I didn’t run into him- how I wa...
Nov 30, 2023•1 hr 32 min•Season 2Ep. 19
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Nov 23, 2023•6 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Mum is home from her three month jaunt around Europe which included lots of cowbells – big and small – Paris, which seemed cheap after Switzerland, – ‘ it bankrupted us’ – and a Latin class with a Benedictine monk. I, on the other hand, unexpectedly quit my job, moved back home and have spent the last couple of months looking after the (three!) cats while trying to figure out a business idea that’ll make me millions as I travel, and am trying my hardest not to think too hard about the fact that ...
Nov 23, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 18
This is a special bonus ep, a SIDE RANT that ended up being more than an hour. We talk: power bills politics the anger of the current generation against the older why Mum 'fell off the Marie Kondo train' going to see Barbie - spoiler, we did not like how much we hate emails wrong takes on Little Women the idea of writers building on other author's novels, eg March and Wide Sargasso Sea the cult of Anne of Green Gables would we ever do PhDs? the girls' trip to Airlie Beach 7 types of rest China l...
Aug 16, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 17
*** Content note – we mention child killing and suicide I find out that Mum once planned to burn her diaries once they got ‘too ridiculous to read’... Wonder if we’re at that point now? This episode we read about Mum going to dinner with a murderer (more on that later), failing her psych lab report, wandering Lygon Street and realising that she might even ‘enjoy being alone,’ and becoming even more time obsessive than usual by noting down the time with seconds when she starts writing. This spark...
Aug 09, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 17
** Hey, it's Jenny here. Lily is off on a boat up north so I'm doing the ep description. This is one of our famous* side chats, which is basically an excision out of the loose, baggy body of the longer recording. Sometimes our episodes are wildly discursive and this was one of them. This one starts with us talking TV -- if you're anything like us, it's a common topic when we chat. I've been revisiting CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, and watching S10 and 11 (on Binge). Then, I recommend Lily checks out PLA...
Jul 26, 2023•16 min•Season 2Ep. 16
** Hey, it's Jenny here. Lily is off on a boat up north so I'm doing the ep description. This is one of our famous* side chats, which is basically an excision out of the loose, baggy body of the longer recording. Sometimes our episodes are wildly discursive and this was one of them. Lily starts by saying how much she's loving THE FEAR OF FLYING by Erica Jong, a book I recommended a number of years ago. She remarks on how the larger themes don't tend to change over time, because humans don't chan...
Jul 26, 2023•34 min•Season 2Ep. 16
I find out that Mum once ate 17 liquorice sticks in a day... IN ONE DAY! The mind boggles We start this episode with a long chat about what we’re reading (I’m reading Fear of Flying by Erica Jong and it’s soooo good!!) and classics vs contemporary lit, and the growth of genre in modern publishing. (It was so long we made it a side chat which we’ll upload next Thursday.) We touch on the Hollywood writers' strike being led by The Nanny, the move from traditional forms of TV to streaming, and the W...
Jul 19, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 16
I find out that Mum used to want to learn the drums...?? This time, we read about Mum going up to her Aunt’s place in Woodend, where she goes riding, the lambs are dropping and there’s a bonfire of dead sheep. Mum mucks around on the CB radio and writes an emotional letter to a friend. We chat about how our expectations of entertainment have changed over time, fandom now vs 40 years ago, the difference between how Mum and I journal- I do it to emotionally unpack life and Mum often seems to avoid...
Jul 05, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 15
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Jun 28, 2023•16 min•Season 2Ep. 14
*** SPOILERS*** Lily finishes reading Jenny's book Little Gods and has some thoughts. We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
Jun 28, 2023•16 min•Season 2Ep. 14
I find out that Mum unknowingly attended Prosh* judging in 1982... This episode we have even more tech problems (it’s totally me, during the ep I realise I'm not plugging in my mic/headphones properly!!) and seagulls squawking outside my window (very distracting!! And I don’t live anywhere near the ocean) as we read about Mum buying her first Sex Pistols album for $4.99, going to see Lady Chatterley's Lover , seeing Dan the psych guy and missing more Uni. We read Mum's ballad which is deeply ins...
Jun 28, 2023•57 min•Season 2Ep. 14
*** 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’s extensive reading list of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, The French Lieutenant’s Woman and Garfield ... an...
Jun 21, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Season 2Ep. 13
In this side chat, Jenny and Lily talk about: the niche era less is more productivity v conception of ideas people as content creativity kid influencers We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
Jun 14, 2023•24 min•Season 2Ep. 12
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 , getting ready for her driving test which is in 16 days (!), finding out that Jubilee is available on VH...
Jun 14, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 12
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, writing an essay on Kafka for Uni and none of the books being in the library because guess what? Every first-y...
Jun 07, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 11
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 text!...
May 31, 2023•5 min•Season 2Ep. 10
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!...
May 31, 2023•21 min•Season 2Ep. 10
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May 31, 2023•10 min•Season 2Ep. 10
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 losing the next to a team of 14-year-olds, more spaghetti marinara, a dream about a party where everyone’s ‘b...
May 31, 2023•57 min•Season 2Ep. 10
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!
May 24, 2023•18 min•Season 2Ep. 9
