Why Mummy Drinks: The Sunday Times Number One Bestselling Author

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This year, she wants nothing more than to perfectly fig up the pudding and sit by the fire reading aloud from A Christmas Carol to a rapt, rosy-cheeked audience. But, just like all Mummy’s best-laid plans, this year’s Festive Vision is in danger of being totally derailed by her chaotic family. There’s not much chance of any action under the mistletoe, and the kids are just not playing ball. Mummy is the self-styled Queen of Christmas, but just when she’s reached the pinnacle of perfection, and her Festive Vision is finally flawless, there’s no one around to witness it. The plot’s a bit daft, featuring at least one completely ridiculous character, and a bit slim, too, but this is a diary and the fun is found in the details and the nods of recognition for mums caught up in a similar life stage. Final thoughts

There are several areas if this book that I feel could have been lifted straight out of my life, although I don't have a sister in law with 6 kids who thinks nothing gif turning up unannounced or with little warning.

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Never had I been more convinced of it than this year, when I was going to have the cosiest, most delightful tiny family Christmas with just Jane and Peter and Simon and me! In all my many quests for the perfect Christmas we’d almost never achieved this – a Christmas with just the four of us – and I was quite sure it would be utterly magical. I hadn’t seen either of the children in ages, and what could be better than a Christmas reunion? Hallmark had literally built a brand around exactly that: families reunited for the holidays, front doors flung open and prodigal offspring tumbling over the threshold on a tide of laughter and candy canes and gently falling snow! Oh my God, Mother, it’s only bloody Verbier, will you stop saying “Abroad” like a xenophobic Nancy Mitford character?’

Spot on, and honest encounter of bringing up children and family life in general. Being a mother, wife and general everything. There may also be drink involved occasionally. Ok there will be drink involved and it's more than occasionally. The book group liked the diary format of 'Why Mummy Drinks', comparing it to 'The Diary of Adrian Mole', but this time with a 39 year old (equally irritating and confused) mum. However, amid the ruin of her plans, Mummy clings to the hope of discovering a glimmer of joy somewhere under the mistletoe. Rafferty. I should have expected no better from a boy called Rafferty. The very name sounds too like ‘raffish’ and therefore is untrustworthy.I was happy to get to the end. Too much use of the F word for me. Not a fan of the Diary format. “ L. Billings. Don’t do what? You’re the one who’s just announced they’re not coming home. It’s not like you’ve ruined Christmas or anything!’ I snapped sarcastically. Several people have asked recently what advice Mummy would give to new, or newish parents. Obviously the most terrifying thing about this is that there are people out there who are under the impression that Mummy knows anything at all about parenting, and is in some way a responsible adulting type of person. Mummy can hear the derisive laughter from pretty much everyone she knows at this notion. The characters were funny - slightly over the top but funny all the same and being a 40 something year old woman I could totally relate to the lead character in this book even down to the names she calls her husband. Mummy’s carefully laid plans of perfectly figging up the pudding, while sitting by the fire reading aloud from A Christmas Carol to her rapt rosy-cheeked audience, are suddenly in tatters.

But I’m not collecting it till late on the 23rd. So we’d have to travel on Christmas Eve. Flights would be extortionate. Things would go wrong, we’d end up being those people on the news spending Christmas in Heathrow. Some bastard would make us have a singalong and talk about the Blitz Spirit to the news people.’ And if you like the sound of ‘Why Mummy Drinks’, then you’ll be pleased to hear that a follow-up, ‘Why Mummy Swears’, will be published later this year. Peter is ‘finding himself’ in Thailand, while Jane has the effrontery to jet off skiing with her handsome new beau.I do not. I do not do either of those things. Just because I take the time to consider the worst-case scenario …’ You talk through everything. Every film, TV and radio programme. That’s not the point, though. The point, my darling, is – this is our chance to do this. To do the beach Christmas, or the country house hotel Christmas. There was always some reason before. Too expensive, the kids had things on, family was insisting on descending. But now, it’s just us. We can do whatever we want!’

Why Mummy Series 4 Books Collection set by Gill Sims (Why Mummy Drinks Book & Journal, Why Mummy Swears, Why Mummy Doesn’t Give a [Hardcover]) Not really. I only need to pay for my flight and ski hire. Raff ’s folks have a chalet out there, and they’re giving me my ski pass for Christmas. And I’ve got a part-time job, you know that, so I’ve enough saved for my flight and everything.’ A truly fantastic funny read. If you are a parent, overworked, Not enough hours in the day, at the end of your tether and need to put a smile on your face then this book needs reading. Its one of those books that at regular intervals you have to stop and say to whoever is nearest to you, 'ahhh just listen to this'. lol lol lol Palazzo pants!’ I attempted to explain, as Simon huffed. ‘Well, why don’t they just SAY nice trousers then?’TK Maxx sells skis?’ I asked doubtfully, momentarily distracted from Jane’s unexpected abandonment of me by wondering how, in my many detailed perusings of all TK Maxx’s excellent bargain goods, I could have missed the skis. Maybe if I'd read this before becoming a mother I may have seriously thought of finding a contraception that liked me. Although then I just wouldn't have understood the book anyway lol. So many, laugh out loud moments. Don’t read this book in company, I couldn’t stop laughing. The worst bit was Semen Smoothies! Yes, I would have bought a new blender as well!! Our set book for this month was "Why Mummy Drinks." by Gill Simms. The group when asked would recommend this book to their friends. Below are their most memorable and least enjoyable bits of this book.