Laura Jackson on keeping up appearances and maternal loneliness

Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

Heart

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Laura downloads to Polly and Anna her need for connection in a world that feels disconnected. Whether under her roof, over a roast dinner or fleetingly in a park, she opens up about leaning in at a time when everyone feels far apart.

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0:00.0	This is a Global Player Original podcast.
0:09.6	Welcome to this Dirty Motherpucker episode.
0:18.3	I am your host, Anna Whitehouse, the founder of Mother Pucker,
0:21.5	and I'm joined today by Poldol, Pee Dog, Polly Hazelwood and Auntie Polly. That's right. Because in the
0:30.5	DMP House today, we have my eldest daughter. She's in position ready to take meat down because we are in the depths of the summer holidays.
0:42.0	And this is in inverted commas work experience.
0:46.6	Hello.
0:47.4	Hey.
0:48.2	Hello.
0:48.8	Hello.
0:49.8	So my daughter was with me in, where were we the other day?
0:53.9	Clare's. Accessories. How did you feel being in was with me in, where were we the other day?
0:54.7	Clare's.
0:58.2	Accessories. How did you feel being in there with me?
0:59.9	Embarrassed.
1:05.6	Wait, whose decision was to go into Claire's accessories? Was it yours or your mum's?
1:06.5	Mums.
1:08.9	Of course it was. Of course it was. What were you buying in there?
1:13.7	Well, the thing is, there's something so galling about walking into Claire's accessories because you instantly feel about 90, because it's like full of tweens and sort of teenagers.
1:19.6	And I went in there, and I don't know why, but I was like, I was looking at my daughter and I was like,
1:24.3	I think we should take the Mickey out of Ollie, my partner, and all get like fake nose rings.
1:31.5	So we went in, didn't we?
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