Drinking Custard: The Diary of a Confused Mum

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I give Drinking Custard Diary Of A Confused Mum By Lucy Beaumont (With interruptions from Jon Richardson) a Five out of Five paw rating. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I would like to point out that we do share a regular Double bed with Gabbie, Sam, 5 Bear Bears, Ginger Bear, A Duckling, a slipper, a Blue Dinosaur and a Google Ball - other toy boxes are available throughout the house - oh and us - 2 adults! 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! As I read through the book, this is a book with humour and with anecdotes that parents may be able to relate to in their own lives.

You could still drink it thinner, though the FDA would say if it didn’t get hot enough it is more likely to be unsafe (though I think the odds are small–how many times have we all eaten raw cookie dough with egg).Thanks to Random Things Tours and Monoray/Octopus Publishing Group for including me on the blog tour and for my review copy of the book. Known for her sharp, witty and surreal view on everyday life, Lucy shares the unpredictable craziness of being a mum in this brilliant and laugh-out loud ‘mumoir’. It’s all about rolling with it and this book is proof after proof that no matter what you just gotta keep rolling with it.

Known for her sharp, witty and surreal view on everyday life, Lucy shares the unpredictable craziness of being a mum in this 'mumoir'. I loved the down to earthness of Lucy's writing the " warts and all grime " the honesty and lack of delicate flim flam.

Beaumont lived with Jon in Surbiton and became a tad obsessed with how she appeared to the other women.

It was heartening to read some of my own thoughts – particularly about ridiculous situations you end up in as a parent – mirrored back at me. I giggled when I read her list of Why I Want A Child as unless you have children you don’t grasp the reality of actually having children, messy, loud and a constant lack of sleep. 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.I'd recommend this book to anyone who likes memoir-style books, light-hearted reads about parenting young children, and anyone who is a fan of Meet the Richardsons. She’s so honest about her motherhood journey and herself and is incredibly welcoming to the reader/listener. Known for her sharp, witty and surreal view on everyday life, Lucy shares the unpredictable craziness of being a mum in this brilliant and laugh-out-loud 'mumoir'. However, I am a fan of Meet The Richardsons (a part-fictional show about Lucy's life with her husband, comedian Jon Richardson), so decided to give this a read.