Drinking Custard: The Diary of a Confused Mum

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Lucy: I usually write notes of real things that have happened whether in the house or at work Then Tim [Reid] and I look at how we can make them into storylines. So half is real and half engineered. Mutch, Michael (26 December 2019). " 'Rude' University Challenge audience laugh at Lucy Beaumont's degree". Hull Daily Mail . Retrieved 29 December 2019.

Lucy: I do want to work there and see how they do things. There's so much misogyny in comedy in the UK and they don't treat women like that in America. 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. She garnered huge critical acclaim with her Edinburgh Festival Fringe runs, and was nominated for the Best Newcomer Award with her debut Edinburgh show, We Can Twerk It Out in 2014. We went to Center Parcs and there was a woman in the toilet who said, ‘Can I just say, in’t it lovely that Jon lets you be on his shows?’” Beaumont remembers. “If you see me as Jon’s wife, I don’t mind. But I was a stand-up before.” Nugent, Helen (3 February 2018). "Preview: Hull's Headscarf Heroes, BBC Four". Northern Soul . Retrieved 29 December 2019.Reading this book, I think Lucy Beaumont is the mum I would love to have bumped into at mum and baby groups. She talks candidly here about the ups and downs of being a new mum, not least the pressures we often pile upon ourselves. Over the years, it seems that Beaumont has become best known as her role of wife - be it in real life or written. But that wasn't always the case. It was more amusing than funny to me, although part of that was the class angle. There is just something that annoys me about middle class people trying to distance themselves from the ludicrous ways of the snobs around them, while their own child's behaviour, reminiscent of an obnoxious princess, is no reflection on them of course. That said, one of the anecdotes I did find funny was the idea of a toddler asking her gran for a breakfast smorgasbord. Fletcher, Harry (16 September 2014). "Jon Richardson engaged to fellow comedian Lucy Beaumont". Digital Spy. Jon: I'm going downhill the other side so it won't be long before I'm recording 3,000 episodes of a quiz a week in an airport hangar somewhere. I'm quite happy for Lucy to take on the world. And it will happen. We’ll move to America at some point because that's what Lucy wants to do. She's done everything else she's set her eyes on.

I’ll eat anything really! If there’s a good vegan option, I’ll normally have that, but there very rarely is. You can tell when someone’s cooking it if they’re vegan because they understand that you don’t just want butternut squash and that you still want something “meaty”. But fish and chips is still my favourite – Cave Street Fisheries in Hull is where I go!’ The 39-years old actress Lucy Beaumont's mum Gill Adams is a British actor/writer who has been in Emmerdale Farm, Doctors, and several other British dramas. Lucy, a native of Kingston upon Hull, is most known for her stand-up comedy, which is primarily focused on stories about Hull and the Northern England region. Her mother Gill also hails from Hull where she worked as a playwright. Disney+ is here in the UK and if paid for an annual subscription can save viewers 15%, giving you access to Disney and Pixar films, and popular series such as The Mandalorian. New O2 customers, or existing customers who are upgrading their plan, can get up to 6 free months of Disney+.

When the first series of Meet the Richardsons came out Jon and Lucy were living in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, and the programme showcased a fictional view of their marriage there. Richardson, Jay. "Lucy Beaumont: One to watch". Edinburgh Festivals Magazine. Archived from the original on 29 December 2019 . Retrieved 5 August 2020.