Mum's The Word! The Parenting Podcast - 'My Mum Just Exposed My Childhood' Mother’s Day Special with Georgia Jones & Mumma Jean

Episode Date: March 15, 2026

For this special Mother’s Day episode of Mum’s The Word, Georgia Jones is joined by someone very important… her mum, Mumma Jean.From brutally honest baby stories to embarrassing teenage moments, nothing is off limits as Jean spills the truth about what Georgia was really like growing up, including the time Georgia used to hold her breath until she passed out and the boyfriend disasters Mum never forgot. They also talk about the realities of motherhood across generations, Jean’s experience of miscarriage before and after having her daughters, and the moment she realised Georgia had found her confidence, pushing her to enter Miss York, which eventually led to Miss England and Miss World.It’s funny, emotional and full of family stories as they reflect on childhood memories, parenting styles, and what Mother’s Day really means.Expect laughs, a few embarrassing revelations, and a lot of love.A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back to Mums the Word. Happy Mother's Day! I'm your host, Georgia Jones. And the last couple of years, you've had the pleasure of Kelsey and I am, but this year it's my turn. And today we are joined by my mum. I've already got the giggles

because my mum's watching me work. And it's really weird. I'm sure we have plenty of chat about from what I was like as a kid, which was an angel, are differing parenting styles, and much, much more. So grab a cup her, get comfy,

and let's jump in to a brand new episode of Mums the Word. Mom! Hi! Georgia! Hi! I do sometimes call my mum mummy, but I'll refrain from doing that on this podcast. Are you excited to be on the pod?

Very excited. It's all completely new to me, this sort of thing. She has just confessed that she doesn't really listen to my podcast, which is absolutely devastating and not them alive. What does it feel like being at my place of work? Very different. You know, in this scenario, really, it's just so completely different. She's grabbed a cup, though, everyone.

I've just made a put on a folded-up piece of kitchen roll so she doesn't disturb the recording by slamming her cup down. And I'm not going to spill it. So, Mom? Yes, darling. What was I like as a baby? What were you like? What was I like?

What, when you were very small? Yeah. I've covered in a lot of hair all over this one. Place it on your ears. On my ears? Down your back? Yeah. Yeah.

Lovely. I was a very, very hairy little baby. Yeah. And I wasn't a looker, was her mom. You didn't have a lot of chin, darling. No. I didn't have a chin. And what was it?

Granddad said when you walked into the hospital and saw me for the first time. What? Your Granddad, Horsela, yeah. Oh, I suppose. She'll be all right, she'll do. That's about it, really. And Dad was devastated because I wasn't a boy. But I am one of two, so there's me and there's my big sister, Lauren.

But there's actually only 14, is it 14 months? 14 months. 14 months between me and my sister, which when I had Cooper and worked out the math, I realized that I was probably a mistake. Never. No? Just a happy surprise, Mum? Yeah, sort of like that.

Yeah. Yeah. Never a mistake. Never a mistake. No, no, no. Was I a good baby? Did I sleep well? You went through a period where you didn't, after a few months, you didn't.

But generally, good, yeah. And was I a happy baby? Yeah. Because my sister, my sister, what, how long did it take for Lauren to sleep through the night? Until she was four years old. Four years old, my sister. Apparently it's a sign of intelligence, which is probably why I slept like a log. Yeah.

Well, it was a minute she got to school. Yeah. Her brain was occupied, I think. Yeah. Maybe I didn't occupy her brain enough. Hey, I don't. I don't know. Well, who knows, Mom? Who knows? Yeah.

So growing up, was there ever any dramatic childhood moments that I had? Oh, I think the most dramatic was holding your breath and passing out. That wasn't great. So for anybody that doesn't know, which is probably everybody listening, what was this that I used to do? If something would have upset you, right? Like you're on a roundabout. And then some big boys got on and you flew off. And you held your breath because you started to cry. Yeah.

But just didn't inhale. He just sort of cried. But then you're waiting for that inhale. Yeah. And you didn't. You just held your bath until he passed out. And I did fully pass out. Yeah.

How many times? How many times growing up? Did I do it? All in all, maybe four or five times. But we just had to lay you in a recovery position. and wait, it seemed like forever, but it wasn't. It was just a matter of seconds, I suppose. But you were actually out.

So for the first time I did it, I mean, that must have been absolutely petrifying, wasn't it? I mean, I couldn't imagine if Cooper passed out. I'd probably pass out myself. It was petrifying you. Were you with Dad? The first time, no, I wasn't.

You were on my own. What did you do? What was your... What was you? I started banging you on your back. I didn't know what to do. really. But then the first time you actually came out more quickly. But then we, once, you know, immediately, obviously, to the doctor and find out what was going on. But once we knew the procedure,

but the first time your dad saw it, he was correct because he used to say, oh, you know what you've got to do. You've just got to lay on in the recovery position and just wait. And the first time it happened with your dad, oh my God, Gene, what the head? Just a side note, dad is very, very squeamish. He wasn't the best during your, what was it, your lessons. What are those lessons called that you have before you have a baby? Antinatal class is. Antinatal class.

He went to the one with the film. Well, I don't think we have films anymore, but. Don't you? Well, we didn't. Well, we did. Yeah. And I was thinking, oh, this is good, you know, we'd be enjoying. What was the film of?

A birth. A birth. Yeah. And I just happened to glance to the side and looked at your dad. And he was absolutely grey. And then, I'm going to have to go out to you. I'm going to have to go out. Was he all right during the actual birth, though?

Yeah. He was? Yeah, he was. Yeah. Because obviously he was at bottom end, so he wasn't too bad. You see a lot of him. So, Mom, you actually had quite a journey for having babies, didn't you? Because you had...

Yeah. You've had a few miscarriages before, haven't you? I had a miscarriage before I had Lauren. Yeah. And then I had a miscarriage after you. Yeah. And then didn't... No, that, I didn't try and wanted.

So you had two miscarriages? Two. And were you quite... How far on were you when you had them? Can you remember? Not very far. Around about the 12 week. Oh, okay.

So... Period. Enough. Far long enough. Enough to feel, you know, all excited about it. And everything was great. And your life starts to change and you plan things differently. And then all of a sudden that's taken away from you.

It's very hard. Yeah. Very hard. Did you want three then? Four. Did you want four? No. Well, I think I would have liked a big one.

Yeah, a big family. I only say three because the last one was after me. So you already had two girls. Yes, that's right. That was those math. So just so everyone knows, me and mum, maths is not our strong point, is it? I got that from my mum as well as her a bum. Yeah.

Sorry about both of those. No, hey, I'll take the bum. Maybe not the inability to do math. rather be able to do that. Lauren stole every brain cell, I think, in the first birth, and then I got the dregs that we were left with. No, you didn't.

No, you didn't. But talking of that, so my sister is very, very intelligent. She's a doctor, isn't she? Ops a gyny doctor. And growing up, I obviously wasn't, you know, I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't Lauren's level of intelligence. Did you ever find it difficult having two very, very different daughters, like in terms of Lauren was excelling at school and doing really, really well,

me not so much. And she was getting, obviously, she used to get a lot of prayers, didn't she, Lauren, from everyone really. I'm going to have to stop you though. You got that wrong. You can't say not so much because you were excelling at different things. Oh, she's telling me off. She's telling me off, Jack. Yeah, yeah, I do. But you were excelling in art and... Mum likes to say excelled out. But I think it was a one. textiles and things. Yeah, we're all good at something. And, yeah.

So you've got to stop putting yourself down there. Okay, Mum, I won't. Sorry. But obviously you saw that we had different things that we were good at. But did you find it difficult when, like, people on the outside would kind of give Lauren lots of praise and then not so much as much for me? Yeah, but that's when I used to jump in and say, and George. And have you seen George's? And have you seen, yeah, yeah.

Did you? Yeah. To get you both, both in there. But did you, did it upset you? Did it upset you that you felt like people weren't kind of as aware of, like, my things? Because they weren't to do with science or maths or. I might have had a mutter. Yeah.

A mutter about it. Yeah. Mum and dad love a good mutter. Would you like a mutter? Yeah. When they've been with either me or Lauren, they get in the car and they're talking. for that four and a half hour journey. Four and a half hours.

We're just about manage everything. But people are people, aren't they, Georgia? And you just accept it as maybe something lacking in other people. And yeah. What was the moment you felt like I'd found my calling in life? Find your calling? Yeah. I think when I got you to enter a Miss York contest.

Yeah, I've got a lot to thank my mum for. She did. Yeah. I won't say you forced me. me. You just gave me a forceful nudge. It was a, go on, you can do it. Go on, what have you got to lose? Have a go. She was my number one cheerleader, weren't you? Oh, yeah.

When I very much didn't believe in myself. So mum got me to enter Miss York, wasn't it? Yeah. And however, you did make Dad take me to the competition because you knew that I probably could have talked you out of me doing it, whereas Dad was, no, get yourself in. there go on come on georgia no way he would have brought you home no it wouldn't have allowed me to come home no going into that room and anyway so it ended ended in eventually me winning miss england going to miss world didn't it it was i suppose was yeah that was where i guess my career started didn't it yeah but also that showed confidence as well when you did that i mean it wasn't a very good

start because you went to the loo at Heathrow. We were seeing you off. When I was going to Miss World. And I had your phone taken. So you were just setting off to go to China. To Sanya. Yeah, to China without any contact. Yeah. God. But off you went. I did. Did you know. Could you believe it? Were you like, that's my little girl is travelling all the way to China with strangers and also now with no mobile phone. So glad when you got there. You were? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Did you just, was it quite surreal for you though? Yeah. Very much so. Yeah. But I knew we were going to come out and see you. Yeah.

So I actually booked that, didn't you, is your summer holiday to fly to China to come and support me. And you were actually, when you watched me in Miss World, you were sat next to Bruce Forsyth's wife, weren't you? Yeah. Do you remember? When Aaliyah was she gone? Yeah. Nice lady. Yeah.

She was lovely. Yeah. Pop-lobbing with the stars was my mum. Oh, yeah. So how were my teenage years? Be honest. Pretty normal. Yeah?

Yeah. You didn't. Well, funny phrase, but go off the rails in any way. Had a rare selection of boyfriends. What was my finest boyfriend moment, do you think? Who was, what was the, where did I go off, pieced a little bit with my boyfriends? Were they all quite strange? No, they weren't strange.

It was you that thought they were strange. Like somebody that wore a hat all the time. There was somebody else who's a flat you went to and you were just appalled because he didn't have any food in his fridge. Yeah. You have that. Yeah.

Somebody who, a little strange back. He didn't like his back. I used to look forward to all these tails coming home. Oh, you love that one. I love it. I love it. No, do you know what? What?

He gave me the ick because he drove a old school mini. And it really put me off him. How fickle. But at the time when you're a teenager, it could just be the smallest thing that puts you off. A boy. I remember, do you remember that one boyfriend I had that had an eyebrow piercing? Yes.

And he brought all his friends around. And I didn't know, but they were all smoking drugs in the back garden. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I wouldn't let them in the house because I was a good girl. and I was like, you're not allowed in my house. Little did I know. They'd then gone into the garden.

I thought they were just having a cigarette. I didn't know what they're doing. And I thought, and I said, I think we're putting cigarettes out on the bird table. And were they not sick? Was it, was it stronger stuff? I don't know. I didn't go out and examine anything.

He didn't last very long. He didn't last very long. He didn't last very long. He was a bit too much of a rebel for me. Was he? Yeah. I prefer the ones that are quite as rebellious as that. What's your favourite memory of us together?

You and me, you, me and Lauren, Dad. Favorite memory. My mum and dad are still together. I know it's quite rare for my generation, for our parents to still be married, but they are, going strong. We came down to London, didn't we, on a trip, do you remember? Yeah.

Did you remember what we had to wear? Not have to wear, but what I got. No. I got some cagools in case it rained. Oh. They weren't very expensive ones. Oh, bright colours. Can we just, no, this wasn't recently.

This was when we were how old. Oh, you weren't very old. I might still have it somewhere. But what's an idiot? I got myself one in exactly the same colour. Yeah. Your dad didn't have one. So we all have these anorax.

We're all out of us. And it was our first ever trip anywhere, I think, wasn't it? Yeah. I don't it even been on a holiday? I think that was our first ever holiday. was to London. Yeah, and we stayed in a hotel. Yeah.

And can you remember what it had in the bedroom? A bath. And what did you do? Had a bath. Morning, noon and night. You were into double figures nearly because it was a novelty. Yeah, because back at home... We do have a bath.

We didn't have a bath. But Dad was really tight on when we were allowed to put the immersion here on. So basically, to get hot water in our old house where we used to live, if you wanted a bath, half an hour before you could have a bath. You had to put the immersion heater on. and God forbid you accidentally forgot him on. Oh, if you left it on. If you left it on, it was hell to pay.

Dad was not a happy bunny. So, but, you know, I couldn't have a bath however many times I wanted, and I love a bath still do. Anyway, we got to this hotel and I remember saying to mum, so I can have a bath as many times as I want. And you were like, yeah, darling, not yourself out. So if we weren't going around London, seeing the site, I was in that bath in that hotel room. You were in there, going a bit crinkly, yeah. I loved it. I love all the things I love the most about my first ever trip to London

was the fact I could have a bath. That's so funny, I didn't think you were going to come up with that memory. But great, yeah, good one. And you enjoyed that trip. We did a lot of sightseeing, didn't we? We did a lot of sights in, a lot of walking, yeah. We did all sorts, yeah, it was good. It was.

I thought you were going to talk about the trip we did not that longer. So it was maybe like two years. ago, mum and dad came to London and we did proper sightseeing, didn't we? We did. Because normally, because obviously we live in London, normally when mum and dad come, they're often here to babysit, to be grandparents, aren't you? Or to visit us, but we don't tend to venture out of kind of where we live much, do we? No, no. So yeah, so we decided we'd do a really good sightseeing day. So we went on the London eye, didn't we? We did. Which was lovely. We did like the champagne. boozy version, didn't we?

Which was nice. Yes, it was gorgeous. And then we went and watched the Moulon Rouge. Oh, yeah, that was fabulous. Which was incredibly, wasn't it? Yeah. You and Dad really enjoyed that, didn't you? We did.

It's actually one of Dad's favorite films as well, isn't it? Yeah. And we had such a nice time. I strongly suggest, if ever you have your parents in London, for anyone listening that has parents that don't live in London, do a sight see and do? Because you just don't, do you? Just don't do that when you actually live in that place.

It's like we're from York. and we don't do all the... No, it's silly, really. I mean, I could quite happily go and stay a weekend in York, excuse me, and look at things that I wouldn't normally look at. It's normally going shopping

when I go into York. Yeah. So, talking of parenting, obviously I'm now a mummy. You are. It's a lovely Cooper. Your favourite grandchild, don't tell Lauren.

You can't say that. So, mum has three grandchildren. my little boy Coops and then Joseph and Adam, who's my sister's children. So am I the mum that you thought I was going to be? Yeah, I suppose you are. I think, I think, I think you both of a pause. No, I'm trying to think, because your character hasn't changed at all. Slightly more stressed.

Well, yeah, you're bound to be stressed, yeah. I can remember that stress, especially when you two are close together. But the pressures you have with working at the same time, Yeah. Do you think it's quite different to when you obviously had us? I didn't work until you both started school. And is that what you wanted or is that what you... It was just something that a lot of people did then. Yeah. Yeah.

It wasn't the norm to go back to work. Did you want to or were you quite content? I was content. I didn't particularly want to. No. No, I was quite happy. and, you know, I used to truss along, take you around to friends' houses and, you know, double pram and, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, plenty to do. But. Well, gosh, yeah, because you would have to have a double bookie if we were only 14 months apart, wouldn't you?

Yeah, it was. My mum and dad bought it for us, and I wish they hadn't, because it was such a lumbering heavy thing. Oh, God. Yeah, not enough. I think I went on a bus once with it, and that was it. And that was it. And that was it. Yeah, I held the queue up for ages.

and all the rain gear took forever to put on. And yeah, I mean, they're much different now. Yeah, they're much more different. Yeah, they're much better now, are they? But no, I didn't desperately want to go back to work, really. No. So, yeah, yeah, I was fine. And is there anything that I, that not even I do personally,

that is kind of like a parenting norm now that you think is better than when you were, you were? a mum, an early mum. Yeah. Well, you do a lot more. And you take your children with you to a lot more things. Yeah. You know.

I mean, the thought of taking your baby into a pub, when you're young, you wouldn't do it. I don't think it would be allowed, I don't know. Really? I doubt it. Kids had to be a certain age to go into a pub. God, that was all me and Rose did when we had the kids. We'd just go meet in a pub.

have a glass of wine and the kids would sleep in the pram. Yeah, so you do a lot more with your children with you. And is there anything you think that isn't how it should be? Do you think, is there anything that we do now and you're like, staffed? I don't know why they're a parent like that. Only that I feel sometimes that you all do too much. When you're working and then you try and do everything.

Yeah. And whether the kids always need. so much of every different hobby and everything. I mean... That's not me, that's Lauren. That's my sister. My sister has... Her social calendar for her children is, well,

I mean, jam-packed, isn't it? Yeah. Absolutely around. And the thing is, and I suppose a lot of it depends on where you live and here, to get to any sort of thing, you know, hobby or anything that they're doing, you usually have to get in the car and take them there. Yeah.

So I can't really compare that with... where you two grow up because I would walk everywhere around to places, you know, walk to the swimming pool, walk you to brownies and guides and all that sort of thing. Yeah. And also, I don't know, there's not a lot of just, we used to chuck you into the garden, you know. Out you go, you know, just go and go and play outside. Yeah, a lot of outside. I know it depends whether you've got a garden.

You've got spent, not everybody has. So that, you know, I'm not. saying that's that's the way of mine it should be from what we had but it's different for me yeah we are we can't play out a lot no we used to spend a lot of our life digging yeah just digging in the garden digging holes yeah digging holes until well we lived on a flower nursery didn't we and um i never forget one time where my auntie susan was looking after us who also used to work on the flower nursery with us my dad's sister and we'd been jumping on bags of soil, I think.

And then Lauren jumped on one that wasn't a bag of soil. It was a load of sheets of glass covered with a tarpaul in, wasn't it? Yeah. And she really had, didn't she cut her face or something? I think she hurt yourself. She hurt herself. I mean, poor Auntie Susan has to bring Lauren up to the house with her face slashed up. I think you're going to have health and safety on to me after this.

Sorry, we don't live. don't live on the nursery anymore. I think I'm above the age where social services get involved, mum. I don't think you need to worry. Do you have an insatiable fascination with the paranormal?

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No, it's only difference with food times and meals. Food, meals, yeah. I thought that was what you were going to say. because Cooper's a fussy eater. Saying that, I did try and feed him a whole roast dinner the other day and it ended in him choking and nearly choking to death. So I'm going to stick to my beige food with him for now. No. I'm traumatised. I'm traumatised.

When you think back to how you raised us when we were little girls, because now, nowadays, we talk so much about emotions and feelings and there's lots of books to help. Mm-hmm. YouTube and all sorts. Was it a thing back when we were little to talk about emotions, do you think? No. No.

Probably not. And also, bear in mind where we lived and, you know, into the countryside, you know, and North Yorkshire for a start. Yeah. Yeah. Different people, isn't it? However, I will say, though, I think you were very good with emotions. You would, you, so mummies are very good.

Mum is what I would describe as a proper mum Like you were cuddly And, you know, if ever we were sad or upset We always knew we could come to you And we'd get a lovely cuddle And do you remember, I used to fall asleep When I was little, I used to fall asleep on your chest, didn't I? Yeah.

And even like going into, you know, getting a bit older I used to come and lay, I used to put a cushion You'd be behind me, wouldn't you? And I used to put a cushion in between your legs and had lay in front of you and watch the tell you, wouldn't I? Yeah, absolutely, yeah. So we were always a very tactile family, weren't we?

Yeah. And I do feel like you did teach me about emotions and how to show them, definitely. And I do think that's why Cooper is the way he is because I think it was such a learned habit for me to be vocal. And also say what you think. Also talk about how you're feeling. Something bothers you.

Yeah, I find that important. I find it important even now. Now you're, you're growed up. Now I've got to let things out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Otherwise you just explored, don't you?

You do. You do. Yeah. Did you, when you were parenting us when we were younger, did you ever have mumgill? Or is that something that we've kind of like penned as our generation? Are we like talking about mumgill? and you're like, what is this mum guilt you speak of?

Yeah, if ever, you know, you'd been a bit naughty or something and I'd have to tell you off. And everybody flips every now and again. And after I'd done that, you know, I'd get that guilt, especially if you'd sent me a little, you went up to your bedroom and then you'd send a little letter downstairs of apology. It used to break my heart. A real guilt trip.

Yeah. We did. We used to, if ever we were in trouble, which wasn't often. We'd go upstairs. Problem was, Lauren was a terrible liar. So if we'd done anything naughty, I would go to Lauren, don't tell mum and dad. And then you would go, girls, do you know why this vase is broken? And I'd be like, no, don't know. And then Lauren would be like, who's me and Georgia would be broken and we're really sorry? But then equally what she'd do is giggle while she was apologising, which would get us into even, more trouble. So she was my weak link whenever we were naughty. So then we'd go upstairs, wouldn't we? And we'd concoct her fabulous letter. Yeah. Probably too guilt trip you. We're like, we are so deeply sorry for hurting you and making you cry. We will never, ever do it again. We promise. But you used to, herald me reading that with a little knock on the

down door. Did we? Yeah. I heard a little footst coming down the stairs. Yeah. And then, knock, knock, knock. I've got a letter. I've got a letter. And then on out the door, there was a little letter. Isn't it what snatched?

I think I might still have some. Oh, I would love to see something. Yeah, I'd have to have a route and see if I can find. Yeah, you're absolutely. Did we ever do anything really naughty? Can you, have you got any recollection? Oh, I know something I did. What did you?

It was to, I'll give you a clue. It was to do with me being at Rainbow. I think it was Rainbow. Oh. at the inauguration ceremony. Oh, no, I don't mean that, but you can tell that story. Yeah. Very quiet and all, dib, dib, dim, dim.

You know, what you had to say. And all of a sudden, you let out the most enormous fart. Which is strange, because I don't fart. No, you don't, don't. And myself, your dad and another lady, and only three of us actually watching our kids do it. We were heaped. And the lady that was performing it, I'm sure she was disgusted with us

because we were just laughing. We've got it to stop. I don't know why I thought it was appropriate. In the middle of doing whatever you do when you were getting entered into rainbow. Well, I think it surprised you a bit as well. I don't think you expected it to come. I got me off. Yeah, yeah, it did.

No, what I was going to talk about was I found a ring. Do you remember I found a ring? Oh, yes. Where did you find it? I found it in a box at rainbows. Oh, that's it. I was only little. And I thought, oh, I'll have that?

And I brought it home. And you were like, where on earth have you found this ring got this ring from? And I was like, I found it. Where? In a box at rainbows? And then you made me, you march me back and you made me. Because I thought in my head, oh, it's fine. I could just sneak it back next time I'm at rainbows.

But you were like, no, you go in and you apologize. And you say, I took this ring. I was absolutely mortified. That was my stealing days were over after that. Yeah. So, mum, much to your panic, I did ask my followers on Instagram for some questions. Yeah. Now, one of the first ones that came in was from a Danny Jones official.

That ringing about. And the question was, how cool is your son-in-law? He's very cool, but he doesn't have a lot of control over his bottom. That is brilliant. Farts for England. You heard it here first, guys. Heard it here. Thanks, Mum.

Really appreciate that. Bring him down a peg or two. Someone said no question. It's just recognition for raising such a down-to-earth, humble, lovely daughter. Aw. Sweet. Thanks, mum. Was Georgia very naughty growing up?

No. No, she wasn't. No. It was an angel. No, you weren't an angel, but you weren't very naughty. I think the naughtiest thing I did was when, mum took me, mum and dad took me and my best friend, Catherine, on holiday.

And we were 15, weren't we? So we weren't of the legal age to be drinking or anything like that. And we made really good friends with the hotel entertainment crew, didn't we? Yes, she does. And they took us on a night out. And mum and dad still to this day, won't believe me. But basically what happened was I dropped my phone, which was our only mode of contact.

It was a long time ago. And it was over 20 years ago, wasn't it? Yeah. As I dropped my phone, it was an old school phone. The bat came off. The battery fell out and my SIM card fell out and went down a drain. So that was it. We had no phone.

Yeah. And we kind of lost track of time. And we were stumbling, potentially, might have had a few drinks at 15, stumbling back up the path to our hotel. we looked up and on the balcony my dad pacing back and forwards Oh mum wrought with worry weren't you

With something had happened to us I couldn't go to sleep It was 4 o'clock 4 a.m. 4 a.m. Yeah And that was I think my first ever hangover Oh yeah It was a cracker as well was it on a plane

Oh god yeah Because we had to travel home the next day didn't it On an early flight That was bad times. And me and Kat were in a world of trouble. But it was fine. Right, remember your dad on the balcony, you sort of waving, hi. Your dad just said, get in.

Get in. That was the pair of you. Very angry. And most embarrassing moment for Georgia. Oh, probably your dad dropping you off at Milton Rooms. Pipping his home and he dropped you off. So Milton Rooms was our local disco, wasn't it? And, you know, it's where you'd go and find you particularly.

potential boyfriends. Dad would always drop us, me and my best mates there, wouldn't he? Well, you wasn't allowed to drop me right outside the door. No, so we were like, yeah. You used to say, oh, just leave us here. That's fine. Yeah. So dad would drop us a few, a few doors back from the Milton rooms. But then what he'd do, as we were walking in is, it, beep, beep, beep, beep, wouldn't he? On purpose. Just, not just the ones. No, they'd be like, beep, beep, beep, beep. And the wave. Part of me died inside.

Part of me, I think, would have been quite sad if he just stopped doing it. Dad used to always as well, if ever he saw any wrongdoings in the town, he would then like to follow whoever was being naughty, and they were often like the naughty kids at school. So I would die. I'd be like, Dad, it's done.

Don't follow them. But he couldn't bear anyone doing anything against the law, could he? So he would... No. Took it into his own hands quite often. Remember he once got out and stopped that cyclist. That's history. I do.

Sister repeating itself because my dad, as you know, was a policeman. Yeah. And I'd be walking along with him, say, going through the park. And somebody would be on a bike, riding a bike, somebody from school. And you weren't supposed to ride through the park. And he'd say, get off that bike. I know where you live. And I said, oh, God, Dad, no.

Did you ever find, though, having a policeman as a dad that people wouldn't mess with you? Or was it the opposite way around? I think probably the opposite. What else have people asked? Not a question, just want to say Mumma Jeans are the best, I have one too. Aw, good, I'm glad you do. When did you know that Georgia and Danny

were destined to be together? Took us a year. You were the one, actually, once again. Yeah. If it hadn't have been for my mum, me and Danny probably wouldn't be together now, would we? I think you'd have found each other eventually. I don't think Danny would have given up.

It was mum that gave me the nudge. after a year. I'd been away travelling, hadn't I, and come back? Yeah. Yeah. And what did you say to me? I told you to go for it. You said, have you heard from that Danny?

Yeah. That Danny boy. And I was like, oh yeah, we text a little bit. And you're like, oh, for God's sake, darling, just go on a date. Why not, yeah. So we did, and the rest was history. It was. So what would she have done differently as a mother, knowing what she knows now?

What would you have done differently as a mum? Me? Yeah, knowing what you know now. I wouldn't have worried so much about things. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think I took a bit of that from you.

Yeah. Didn't I? Yeah. Yeah. She is. I still am. Yeah. Terrible.

It's in my age. To the point where we don't tell her anything, if, you know, there's anything health related until we know that we're okay. So then when we're okay, we'll tell mum and then mum will be annoyed that we haven't told her, but we know the weeks of worry that mom will have to go through. It just isn't worth it.

We'll have a phone call every day. Have you? I heard anything. I've got an appointment through yet. Are you? You're a worrier. I am. This is an interesting one.

Would you ever move down south to be closer? Because mum and dad are on a good run, four and a half hours drive away, aren't you? Normally about five. I don't think as a couple, you know, me and your dad together would still do it. And also, you like to come home. I do like to come home, yeah.

Come home and the kids like to come home. and the kids like to come up. But say if Dad's clocks. One of us. Yeah. I don't know. I think it's been more likely for me to come down than your dad. Yeah.

I think if Dad died, God forbid he doesn't. No. That's not a long time. God forbid he doesn't. He will eventually, obviously. If Dad died first, I think you would probably move to London. I think. I don't think you'd let me stay alone, would you?

No. I don't think we're right. Whereas dad, absolutely not a kind of hell's chance. Would he move to London? No. I don't think so. He loves his garden too much. He does.

He just couldn't do it. Yeah. What's your favourite thing as a mum that you love about your girls? They look after me so well. You know, so caring. We're actually having a girls weekend. Well, weekend. Yeah, girls, a girl, well, yeah, girls' weekend after this, aren't we?

Yeah. So at the time of recording, it's your birthday. Right. And somebody said, how do I, how do I look so young? Well, it's my mum because she is 76, this woman. Would you believe it? So she's, Jean has got good genes. That's for sure. How do you maintain a good relationship with Cooper living so far away? With Cooper? Yeah. Well, whenever you ring up, if he's, if he's around, I'll always speak to him. He's not the best on the phone, is he though? No, but it's just his little voice, just like to hear his little voice. And yeah, just, just. lemon pieces. And also, whenever it's a half-term or a, you know, it always goes to mum and dad.

He often goes and just stays there without us if we've got work on, doesn't he? Yeah. And he absolutely loves going to my mum and dad, going to your house, doesn't he? He loves digging. He loves it. He loves to dig. And he does. He does.

He does the outside stuff at mum and dads, doesn't he? He always comes back covered in mud and with a healthy outdoor glow. about him. Lastly, mum, what was the most annoying thing that I did as a child? I can kind of. If you got a spot,

you'd pick it to death until it was no longer around. Oh, I love picking. You like a spot. I do love a spot. Go on, what are you going to say? I think you, annoying or slash bad trait

of mine would be my confidence. Yeah. Not having confidence. Yeah. and sort of say no to things before you'd even thought about it. Yeah. So I'd hope I wasn't a pushy mother. You weren't a pushy mum.

But just trying to make you see that what you thought was impossible, it wasn't that you could do it. There's a difference between a pushy mum and a mum that makes you believe in yourself. And that's what you did. There were certain things where you wouldn't push me. Like, for instance, one fancy dress party. thing that we went to and um what had i put you in i was dressed as a gymnast god and i really liked it at home but then when we got there i just felt so self-conscious and i was a very very shy child wasn't

i you were shy yeah very shy and uh i just wasn't wasn't happy with my outfit and you didn't force it and you were like right come on them the same thing happened to me as a child oh i did yeah yeah but i won't go into it. you dressed out as a duck or something. Oh, a bunny. Yeah. And it showed my, it was like a leotard and I had this thing on my head with a little ears on. But even then I had fat legs. And I was aware that my legs were out of this leotard. And I said to my mum, I'm not wearing it. I'm not wearing it. And I sat at the top of the stairs and refused to move because I wasn't going. It was a procession we had to go in. I had to walk with my little fat legs sticking out. I wouldn't do it. You've got lovely little legs, mum. No, I haven't. She got measured the other day. She's really proud because she's five foot one. I've not lost any more. She's not lost any height.

Because I said I don't think she's even reaching five foot. But she is. Well done. I got my height from my father, didn't I? You did, thank God. And you didn't get my little fat legs. I got some cracking thighs from you, one. I love them.

You do you? See, this is the mentality you need to have. You need to appreciate your thick thigh. Yeah, but you always haven't got dimples all over there. They are flipping well out. Not. There you have. Fibbing.

I like that we're ending the podcast on a fan. Right, fight, fight. Now, Mum, has no idea what we're going to do this weekend, so I cannot share with you. But I shall at some point. Oh, Alan, let everyone know what wonderful time we had. Well, hopefully, things cross. Yeah. And Lauren will be joining us, work you. Yeah, she will.

It's going to be wonderful. She will. It's going to be great. Mom, that's the wrap. Who's that it? On another episode of Mom's the word, that's it. That's it. That wasn't very long.

Did you enjoy yourself? Did. I did enjoy it. Thank you. Good. Well, thank you for. on. And thank you people for sending in questions. Yes, thank you, sorry, I'm wearing my manners, thank you people for sending in questions. I very much appreciate it. Let us know what you think to this episode. But thank you, mum. Let's go get drunk.

Go for it. Thank you so much for joining us today as we were joined by my amazing mum, mumma jean. Don't forget to leave us a review, follow us on socials at at Mum's the Word underscore pod and subscribe to our YouTube channel where you can now watch our episodes in full. Just search Mums the Word. Until next time, I'm George Jones and this is Mums the Word. And we'll be back with another episode, same time, same place next week. Happy Mother's Day.