Drinking Custard: The Diary of a Confused Mum

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I moved to Tennessee from Florida this past November and found this (Holiday Custard), as you said, in Walmart. The challenges of pregnancy and antenatal groups are described with humour and brutal honesty, especially with her husband in attendance. Thanks to Random Things Tours and Monoray/Octopus Publishing Group for including me on the blog tour and for my review copy of the book. I think this quite sums it up: “ it was good to know the type of mother I was going to be - angry and impulsive, messy but loving. Heating: Bringing this just to a boil essentially “cooks” the egg enough that it isn’t considered raw any longer.

The programme is not true, though I think many of the ideas and characteristics of Jon and Lucy are close. She comes up with ten reasons why she wants a baby – which includes having a white carpet like in the adverts. Hubs treated me to this after it was mentioned on MEET THE RICHARDSONS , we are not Parents to Human Children but we are Parents In our own fashion. I loved the down to earthness of Lucy's writing the " warts and all grime " the honesty and lack of delicate flim flam. Each relatable aspect and upside down moment has been included in this and it really is a perfect read.

Get ready to make room on mum's bookshelf for Drinking Custard to sit alongside other mum classics such as Why Mummy Drinks, Hurrah for Gin! I’d recommend this to anyone who has embarked on the parenting journey only to wonder – even if only occasionally – what on earth they are doing.

If anyone was sick or recovering from anything from surgery to a broken heart you could count on her to bring you a quart of cold Boiled Custard. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. It is not a straightforward account, it chooses high and low points, it probably exaggerates a little. Throughout the book we hear lots of funny stories from Lucy’s life and the extra challenges faced with motherhood! I added one extra egg yolk to make it divide evenly (on the odd chance I someday want a smaller batch), used vanilla beans instead of extract and simplified the preparation (In full America’s Test Kitchen mode, I did try the original instructions which came out exactly the same as my easier version.

She remembers stories of her own birth while her mother was on holiday, some points of which she sends to her mother some time later to clarify points of confusion - just to make sure that family legends are actually true. I try to serve for my warm beverage, a mulled wine with a lightly Spiced apple juice w/those cinnamon candies you decorate cakes with turns the juice a bit pink/red) for the kids. It explores her experience and stories of pregnancy and motherhood, but the stories manage to be kind of dull and predictable, and simultaneously not that relatable as a fellow new-mum (which was why I was looking forward to picking this up).

To me, for a diary to have wider appeal than the author and immediate family, it needs some broader relevance or educational aspect (think Pepys), or be genuinely witty more than twice (think Back to Better by Annabelle Z Morris or Bridget Jones). I'm not really the target audience, which I presume was middle class mothers who enjoy nights out with 'the girls', but I nonetheless found aspects interesting, such as the wish to go back into the adult world from time to time, and the ordeal of 'bedtime time'. Publishers, authors, blog tour organisers kindly entrust me with books, in-exchange of an honest review. I always get nervous it’s going to boil on me and curdle the eggs and that’s when I know it’s hot enough.Lucy’s voice is warm and relatable, and I couldn’t help hearing it in her voice as I read, and the corrections and clarifications from Jon Richardson set the tone early on. I’ve always thought this was a creepy idea, so I loved Lucy’s comment – ‘Nice quote, but you’d die if that happened, Liz’. I highly recommend you step away from Instagram and grab this book instead – with or without a tin of custard!