Content note: we talk about extreme diets in this side chat

Content note: thrush-date (we know you missed it!), and medical  stuff is discussed. As usual, we encourage you to talk to a doctor about anything that might be bothering you.*I find out what a travellers cheque really is…It’s Christmas time in 1981! And the last episode of Season One!We read about going to the canoe race at Albert Park Lake, legs ‘a la lobster’ which means very sunburned legs, mum goes to Leo’s Spaghetti Bar, gran’s worried about mum’s trip to China cause the ‘white slave trade’ (oh some very retro fears), we find out about how mum wants to be ‘journaliste terrifique’ and to be on the front page of The Age, we have Christmas day and mum prepares to leave on her trip to Hong Kong by getting travellers cheques (seriously what are they??) and getting her typhoid/cholera vax, and can’t wait to get her new Canon AE-1 Program at duty free, it has auto shutter speed and aperture! We chat about Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea, women having it all, how chequebooks are really redundant now, how in 10 years Melbourne traffic will be like LA, the 80s Newcombe moustache and the current 70s porn 'stache, and past family feuds. We leave mum on Christmas night just before midnight, she’s packed and ready for grandad to pick her up in the morning. So tune in to season 2 coming 2023 to hear all about the Hong Kong trip and mum’s 1982 adventures!  As always, listen to experience: cringe, giggles and some real-life shit.We'll be back in 2023! Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries Click to head to our show notes at: mymumsbadidiaries.com

Content note: This was recorded before the horrific imagery from Ukraine came out over the last week.  We often take a light-hearted tone to many of the things we discuss because we believe while we aren't making fun *of* things, often laughing *about* things can push back against power and trauma. We laugh at ourselves and it helps us feel better. We laugh at the world and it helps us feel better. We know we aren't the only ones who do this. We realise, though, that our chat about these topics might be upsetting to some listeners.Oh, and fuck you Putin.

I find out that mum knew ‘Bretty’ growing up!This episode really has it all! We’re coming to the end of 1981 and we read about how  mum’s going to china, how she manages to eat a whole lobster, how she was at a party and it started pouring with rain and none of the boys had shown up, how on a drinks run Peter Rowsthorn picks up a bunch of hitch hikers (oh the 80s) in big straw hats with weird names like Frog! How these interlopers continue on with them to mum’s friend’s party, how mum became a human coat rack and how mum ended up kissing a frogListen to find out if he turned in a prince We chat about the rise of the use of the word ‘hot,’ where it might have come from and how language changes and how the guys that are available to you in high school are never the ones you want, oh and we demonstrate our stalking skill and try find someone from mum’s past online (not for the first time, remember the dentist?) As always, listen to experience: cringe, giggles and some real-life shit. Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries Click to head to our show notes at: mymumsbadidiaries.com

I find out that teenagers have always been angsty about what to do with their lives and that despite being 25 I’ve still got the angst…Mum is turning 18!! She’s an ADULT, ready to go out into the world and have adventures that fill volumes and volumes of journals which eventually become this podcast!We read all about the birthday celebrations, the various gifts mum got, an article in The Age that annoyed mum so much she wrote a letter to them and sent it in, speech night at school and how mum wants to keep touch with all her school friends, keep listening to see how that goes…We chat about the evolution of café and coffee culture (seriously can’t throw a stone in Melbourne without hitting a barista), how we as a society always look towards the future, how it’s funny it is to look back at what people thought our future would be, how in the 80s they were like yep definitely flying cars by the year 2010Oh and not to mention mum’s existential moment where she ‘listened to some Beatles and thought about my future’  As always, listen to experience: cringe, giggles and some real-life shit. Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries Click to head to our show notes at: mymumsbadidiaries.com

In this side chat, we talk about how some things never change, ie teenagers and young adults not knowing what to do with their lives. In December 1981, Mum was thinking about it and here I am all these years later, doing the same!

I find out about Buck’s Fizz…This episode mum’s doing her final exams and was given the riveting English expression question of ‘write about a body of water you know well’… English examiners getting creative since 1981!We read about mum feeling left behind by a friend, her plans to ring Adam Ant (how??), Buck’s Fizz on Countdown which was ‘absolutely embarrassing’ and how mum has started a novel… ‘there’s pirates.’ We chat about the new Beatles doco and their obsession with toast, how we now want a toast caddy like they had, how we’ve gone from a 16-hour work day to an 8-hour one so surely the natural progression is towards a 4-hour day, how I’d like to have my proposal in Versailles (not asking too much I don’t think!), how I’m addicted to the midriff and lastly you all get a fly-date of the big blow flies that are still finding their way into my room, how thrilling!Oh and let’s not forget our discussion on the Satanic Panic, how very 80s of us! As always, listen to experience: cringe, giggles and some real-life shit. Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries Click to head to our show notes at: mymumsbadidiaries.com

As a special episode, we offer this SIDE CHAT ahead of the Episode 23 (coming Monday). We start by talking about Lily and her excessive sweating problem (the opposite of Prince Andrew apparently, but *maybe* he had hyperhidrosis and was treated and so now he *can't* sweat?? wtf knows...) and swing into a number of other topics.  We laugh about it but it's a confounding issue. As always, we want to say we aren't medical professionals, just two gals crapping on about stuff.We talk:GPselectric water therapydermatologistssleight of hand 'healers' overseas AKA 'John of God' you can read about him here and also here (that second link has a content warning about rape)cortisoldiagnosis and physiciansspecialistsWim Hofendocrinologistshow medical case studies were often menNot so much cringe or giggles in this one but plenty of 'real-life shit'. Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiariesClick to head to our show notes at: mymumsbadidiaries.com