Real Mummy
Real Mummy
Lucy Dalton
#39 - My Mum Was a Butter Mum and Didn't Even Know It
15 minutes Posted May 22, 2026 at 3:15 am.
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I had been doom-scrolling at 10pm when I kept seeing one phrase — butter mum. I thought it was about cooking. It wasn't. It was a name for the soft, unbothered, melt-into-summer mum I grew up with — my mum, in the 90s. This episode is the whole reckoning: the list of 40 holiday activities I did three of, the dinosaur sandwich nobody ate, the Bluey guilt, and the phone call to my own mum that flipped the entire thing on its head.