Happy 2019 everyone! I’m starting off this year’s blogpost with something I get asked a lot – recommendations for my favourite podcasts. I have been listening to podcasts for years now, but I’d say I’ve really started consuming them more than I consume blog posts, or any other communicative media form, since I became a mother. The time I used to have for loafing around on the couch or in bed with my lap top, catching up with my favourite bloggers and their lovely posts, has dropped as fast as my post-pregnancy boobs. If I haul out my laptop, Imogen has to crawl onto my lap and pretend “type” (ie smear her grubby fingers all over my keyboard and screen) and if I’m on my phone for too long, she grabs it out of my hands to pretend “chat” to people (considering I never call anyone, I’m guessing she copies her father on this). By the time she’s napping or down for the night, I need to use my laptop to do my own work, or I simply want to veg on the couch with a red wine funnel and a bowl of pasta, watching grown up programmes.
But podcasts… those I can listen to throughout the day without too much protest from the small human. She particularly loves Amy’s Work Like A Mother podcast as the jingle is very catchy – whenever it plays, she stops what she’s doing and does a little butt-wiggle! You can listen to podcasts driving in the car, whilst cooking and cleaning (I feel like I do a lot more of that since becoming a mum) and whilst exercising. Although I do miss the aesthetics of a beautifully photographed and well-written blog post, for now the audio medium of podcasting suits my lifestyle far better. My mum reckons she can’t do podcasts as listening to people’s voices banging on and on annoys the shit out of her. There are some accents I simply can’t listen to, but by and large I quite enjoy the coziness of listening to other people chatting about topics I’m interested in. I’m sure once Imogen learns to entertain herself better and skip through the ads on YouTube (seriously, how long does it take for them to learn this???), I’ll have time once again to consume blog posts like I used to. (I do, of course, realise the irony of me writing this in an actual blog post.)
I’ve become so enamoured with podcasts, that I eve