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PODCAST

My Mum"s Bad Diaries

Jenny Ackland and Lilika May

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?

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All Episodes

36:51

Melodram dizzi (Vol.5, 1983)

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2024/12/18

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 attentio...

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46:56

SIDE CHAT (the singing imam)

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2024/12/04

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 coupl...

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67:48

The Germans (Vol.5, 1983)

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2024/11/20

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, Pa...

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61:07

The date (Vol.5, 1983)

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2024/11/06

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...

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53:22

SIDE CHAT (pocket bf)

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2024/10/23

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.)

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71:31

SIDE CHAT (all of the tv)

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2024/10/09

** 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 ...

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61:12

S3E15: The push (Vol.4, 1982)

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2024/09/25

*** 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, ...

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56:13

S3E14: SIDE CHAT (miscellany)

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2024/09/18

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 o...

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45:06

S3E12: SIDE CHAT (on finding balance)

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2024/09/04

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 w...

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67:43

S3E11 SIDE CHAT: farm lyf

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2024/08/08

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 ca...

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87:22

Anti everything (Vol.4, 1982)

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2024/07/31

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 wa...

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56:10

S3E10: All the YMs (Vol.4, 1982)

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2024/07/17

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 ey...

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43:59

S3E9: New Order = boring (Vol.4, 1982)

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2024/06/26

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 ...

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48:37

S3E8: Turkish dispatch

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2024/06/12

** 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 spa...

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48:47

S3E7: Eyeball (Vol.4, 1982)

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2024/05/29

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 ...

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50:31

S3E6 Chat chat (Vol.4, 1982)

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2024/05/15

*** 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 consid...

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81:44

S3E5: [cb] radio days (Vol.4, 1982)

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2024/05/01

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56:59

S3E4: All talk (Vol.4, 1982)

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2024/04/17

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53:34

S3E3: Burned (Vol.3, 1982)

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2024/04/03

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44:11

S3E2: Sweaty Weather (Vol.3, 1982)

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2024/03/20

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