She’s got a Netflix accent now! She did have a northern twang but she’s half Northern and half Netflix really.’ Lucy please continue to keep a diary and do another book with updates on life as a parent as your daughter gets older. I think many of us would love to read an update. 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! and The Unmumsy Mum. The book opens with a chapter entitled “My life as a normal, single human being before everything changed”, which has some childhood memories (which actually continue throughout the book), involving gazebos and other memorable moments. The next goes on to her meeting and getting together with Jon, who adds “interruptions” through the book. Jon is a vegan, and she becomes one apart from during pregnancy, but both admit to lapses which include dead cows and her mother’s cooking when she arrives on mercy missions. She comes up with ten reasons why she wants a baby - which includes having a white carpet like in the adverts. Experienced baby carers will know that she is being foolishly optimistic at this point. She actually writes “The more I write, the more it’s dawning on me I’m not picturing a real baby, I’m picturing a calendar”. The challenges of pregnancy and antenatal groups are described with humour and brutal honesty, especially with her husband in attendance. 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. The actual birth story spares no details, including Jon’s strange urge to buy a four man tent. The unexplained post natal sadness (thankfully fairly brief) and the night feed experience is detailed, as well as the joys of baby massage (she is disappointed that the mums don’t get massaged). Soon Elsie the baby becomes the toddler, the bright child and all with a determination to sabotage sleep. I’ll never tire of motherhood books that tell it like it is and I take a very dim view of those parenting manuals that assure you that baby should be running to your routine, will go down for a nap when you say, and go to bed when you say – especially when my youngest didn’t go to sleep unless he was being held FOR THREE YEARS.

But she suffered terribly from nerves. “It felt like every time you walked on stage you were walking off a cliff. I just used to shake. I had to bring it into my persona.” It was a mix of honesty, fun, fear, frustration and quirkiness and I am actually looking forward to a friend announcing they are pregnant just to buy this for them - even if they are a non reader I will read it to them - especially if they get all " airy fairy ". I did find some parts a little too repetitive. There was also random parts that seemed unnecessary, the main one was the location, location, location part about kirsty and Phil it just didn't make sense?!

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Pryer, Emma (26 September 2021). "Meet the Richardsons' Lucy Beaumont thought she was dying during traumatic birth". Daily Mirror . Retrieved 13 April 2022. As a mum of two girls, I was nodding, laughing and emotional. I recognised so much of Lucy's journey in my own... I really loved it.' YolanDa Brown, BBC Loose Ends As well as honest it is happy, sad, thoughtful, irreverent, moving,basically every emotion you can think of rolled into one joyous read Drinking Custard is a blessed relief from the current woes and uncertainties we all have and thoroughly unashamedly enjoyable

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