Episode 129: Living Danishly with Helen Russell

The Scummy Mummies Podcast

Ellie Gibson and Helen Thorn

Kids & Family, Self-improvement, Parenting, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Why are the Danes so happy? How can Van Halen get you through tough times with small children? And what would it be like to have sex with Craig David? We answer all these questions with the help of our brilliant guest, Helen Russell!

She talks about why she moved from the UK to Denmark and her ace book on the subject, The Year of Living Danishly.We discuss why the Danes are so hot, and why their divorce rate is so high (surprisingly these things are unrelated.) There's also some chat about how Helen wrote her new novel, Gone Viking, which is out now.

Thorn introduces an exciting new game, Great Dane or Great Dean?, and as always we finish with some Scummy Mummy Confessions.

You can follow our guest @mshelenrussell on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review!

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0:00.0	Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey.
0:11.0	So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.
0:16.5	Trains now on Uber. Tees and sees apply check the Uber app.
0:22.3	Hello there this episode is brought to you by the Pokemon Trading Card game
0:26.1	and their brand new product My First Battle. That's right Helen. I love a bit of
0:30.3	Pokemon and My First Battle is a great way to get your family playing together for the first time.
0:35.0	Oh mate, anything that gets the kids off the screens for a bit, hey?
0:38.0	And it's very reasonably priced.
0:40.0	There are two boxed My First Battle sets and each includes two decks for one-on-one battling.
0:44.8	One deck comes with Bulbersaw and Pikachu and the other one comes with Charmander and Squirtle.
0:49.5	Ooh, I'll take the one with Pikachu, please. What a legend.
0:52.4	Serious voice, product is sold separately. I'll take the one with Pikachu please what a legend serious voice
0:53.4	product is sold separately you can mind out more information on my first battle
0:57.2	at pukamom.com forward slash my first battle
1:00.4	got to catch them all you talking about you talking about Pokemon or men on tender?
1:03.6	Shh!
1:04.6	Hmm.
1:05.6	This is the Scummymy's podcast. Hello and welcome to the scummy mummies podcast.
1:17.0	I'm Annie Gibson.
1:21.0	I'm Helen Thorne.
1:22.0	And who are you? I'm Helen Thorne and who are you I'm Helen Russell it's
1:24.6	Helen Russell yes author mother fan of lego and all things Danish It's a Danish special
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