North London Food & Culture

Heard about the Highgate Mums?

Yesterday, Buzzfeed published "24 Things Uttered By Highgate Mums" - based on the hit Twitter feed. But what do K-Town's more down-to-earth parents make of it?

They said what? Two locals in shock at the Highgate Mums. Photo: Mike Leigh's High Hopes
“They said what?” Locals aghast at the witterings of the Highgate Mums.
Photo: High Hopes (Mike Leigh)

Did you see yesterday’s ingenious Buzzfeed feature? It’s a compilation of the best of Highgate Mums, whose Twitter account describes the feed as the “overheard screams of consciousness from the ladies who brunch”.

The result? Gold. But is it for real? Whatever, here are our favourite five:

1. “You know you can afford five bedrooms when the corner shops start selling those huge banana things!”

Image: Mummy Whisperer
Image: Mummy Whisperer
2. “I really like the raw viscosity of urban black music.”


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3. “See her playing in the wash basket? She’s loving it! There’s no way poor children need money for toys.”

4. “The Asian girls always come top. It’s not intelligence, they just have those sorts of logical minds. Look how they present their food.”

5. “They start dancing and…if I’m honest I start resenting the children who can’t keep to time.”

Read these and 19 other utterances over at Buzzfeed here. And don’t forget to follow @highgatemums for more essential daily sayings.

Now what we really want to know is: what have you overheard Camden or Kentish Town mums say? Pray share below.


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