February! The winter weather is too cold to play lax but perfect for tobogganing, gliding and gossiping as school goes a bit 'Meangirls'. We find out how girls learnt to French Kiss in the 80s; (it’s not what you think!) and for the first time some names have been bleeped out to protect the guilty. If you know you know…

Recorded with legendary musician Bourby Webster, on a boiling hot day in ‘Woop Woop’ with occasional noise pollution from husbands making Limoncello on the terrace.

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Series 3! Penny is joined by her long suffering Mother and her own teenager; 15 years and 3 months at the time of recording, exactly the same as Penny in January 1986. What could possibly go wrong?

Recorded in noisy rural Oxfordshire, complete with passing helicopters, squeaky shoes and bonking fish. Recollections may vary.

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Christmas Parties are the perfect hunting ground for Penny and her friends, so many boys to G.O.W, but who’s keeping count? That’s right…everyone. Join Penny and musical theatre star Morgan for the season finale, recorded at the Quarry Amphitheatre, with a little surprise at the end, Penny on vocals, Finn on guitar. Enjoy!

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Penny flies to the UK and persuades Tracey, her old rival, to be November’s guest! So many questions in this episode. Will Neil ever call? Does God exist? Who will lose their virginity first? Penny stars in her first ever opera, The Trappisberg Murders, and there is a cameo appearance from Penny’s future husband, Jack. CONTENT WARNING - much giggling. 

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Penny turns 15 and gets her first heady taste of being a groupie as she watches Neil’s band play at the “Harvest Piss Up”. The phone, shared between all the family, won’t stop ringing and is triggering Penny’s PMT making her hate everyone. Worried she is in the friend zone she tries to convince Neil that she is not like other girls…will her plan work? Read with Sass, friend of the pod and easily excited 1980s Catholic school girl.

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June heralds a flurry of summer shopping, swimming and synchronised snogging. Penny, despite still claiming she wants to be a pop star, unleashes her inner Diva and prepares to audition for her first ever opera! Read in Moore River with Olivia (who would NOT have been friends with teenage Penny) and Dani, who might have been. 

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In this unsolicited bonus episode Penny unpacks her Great-Grandmother’s diary with her daughter, Jasmine. During the last great pandemic Louie Pearson took an intrepid voyage from Cape Town, via Sydney to San Francisco on a square rigged sailing ship, accompanied by her husband Eric, the ship’s captain and also by her daughter, 4 year old LuLu. 100 years, 5 generations, 2 pandemics all in 35 minutes! 

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