Fifty and my RL. Eek.

So as you may know from previous posts, I’ve been outed to my dad who is now aware that I read ‘porn’. It’s not my description of choice for the Fifty Shades series and if asked I would say it’s a contemporary love story with some kink, but unfortunately the press in the UK haven’t cottoned on to that yet and Radio 4 is my dad’s source of information.

As you might have heard, our lovely Icy was interviewed on Radio 4’s Women’s Hour. Here’s the link if you haven’t heard it already. You’ll hear the interview about 1 minute in if you skip the news intro.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01ddxbm/Womans_Hour_Erica_James/ or http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ddxbm You’ll find it at the bottom of the page. I know that you can listen to this one outside of the UK :)

So, back to my Monday, when I’m chatting on the phone with my mam (who doesn’t ‘know’) while my Dad’s in the in the background…

Dad: Tell her her mate was on the radio.

Mam: Dad said that he thinks he heard your friend the author on the radio this morning. What’s her book called?

Me: Fifty Shades.

Mam: That’s it, Fifty Shades of Grey.

Me: That’s the one.

Dad (in the background): Porn for women they were saying…

My subconscious: THANKS, DAD!

Mam: Oh, does she write sexy stories?

Me: This one is, a bit, yeah.

Mam: And you’re in it? I don’t know how I feel about that.

Me: (laughs)

Mam: You don’t do anything rude do you?

Me: No, Mam, I don’t. I’m a respectable doctor’s wife with two kids.

Mam: (Thinks a moment) Well, that’s alright then.

Seriously, a conversation I never thought I would have! As my friend Jodie said, no mother would complain about me being a doctor’s wife lol. I never knew my mam was so old-fashioned! I won’t be telling her anything about the pistachio sex. (Lol, you’ll get the joke if you’ve listened to the interview).

I’m getting my friend to read it; she’s going to buy the books now they’re out in the UK so that she gets what I’m going on about. It will be fun to hear how she likes the story and to see it from on ‘outside’ perspective.

I’ll keep you posted on any further embarrassing convos.  

Rhian

xx