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    Psycho Killer: Qu’est-ce que c’est?
    jdettmann
    • Sep 8, 2016
    • 3 min

    Psycho Killer: Qu’est-ce que c’est?

    And well might you ask, Talking Heads, well might you ask. Is a psycho killer a killer of psychos, or a psycho who kills? It’s a crucial...
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    Roll With It
    jdettmann
    • Sep 2, 2015
    • 3 min

    Roll With It

    When we stayed in Perth last Christmas, housesitting for friends,  I noticed a box in the laundry that had ‘Who Gives A Crap’ printed on...
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    Go To Sleep, Little Baby
    jdettmann
    • May 20, 2015
    • 3 min

    Go To Sleep, Little Baby

    Helpfully, May Blossom and Pipsqueak look like twins born four years apart, so I can illustrate this post with a picture of my own child...
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    Cross
    jdettmann
    • May 27, 2014
    • 2 min

    Cross

    It took half an hour to even upload this far-too-small image, due to iPhoto (or iFighto as my Dad has long called it) deciding that...
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    When You Think He’s Fast Asleep, He’s Always Wide Awake
    jdettmann
    • Jan 15, 2014
    • 3 min

    When You Think He’s Fast Asleep, He’s Always Wide Awake

    Why the italics, you might ask. What has Gusto done to merit that? Nothing. Gusto is being an exemplary feline. It is the jellicle cats...
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    Flat-packed
    jdettmann
    • Dec 12, 2013
    • 3 min

    Flat-packed

    So sweet, you’d never know they have tiny ear canals brimming with filth and germs. Nor that the one on the right is about to throw up in...
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    Nearly Three Years In
    jdettmann
    • Oct 21, 2013
    • 3 min

    Nearly Three Years In

    Tomorrow is May Blossom’s third birthday. If you’d asked me three years ago what I thought my life might look like now, I would have...
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    The Trials of Motherhood
    jdettmann
    • Oct 2, 2013
    • 2 min

    The Trials of Motherhood

    He wasn’t a bad baby to begin with, but about six months ago I began to hear tales from his mother about various crimes and misdemeanours...
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    Things Are Good When Things Are Good
    jdettmann
    • Sep 20, 2013
    • 3 min

    Things Are Good When Things Are Good

    Thing 1: Since one or other or another of his or my recent colds or ear infections or other random maladies that have blurred into one...
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    Upstairs Downstairs
    jdettmann
    • Aug 23, 2013
    • 3 min

    Upstairs Downstairs

    The state of the carpet on the stairs is too shameful to photograph, so here’s a picture of Garnet in a massive hat instead. Our new...
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    True Romance
    jdettmann
    • May 22, 2013
    • 2 min

    True Romance

    Because I want this to remain a mummy blog, and not morph into a beauty blog, I shall refrain from giving you the contact details of the...
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    Missing, In Action
    jdettmann
    • May 14, 2013
    • 4 min

    Missing, In Action

    ‘It means he’s sad,’ I told her. ‘It’s a metaphor. Why do you think he’s sad?’ ‘I think it’s because he misses his mummy and his sister...
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    The Games We Play: Angry Men Edition
    jdettmann
    • Apr 19, 2013
    • 3 min

    The Games We Play: Angry Men Edition

    I spent a bit of time on that flight in the galley, bobbing around while getting Garnet off to sleep, and so I was privy to the pursed...
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    The Real Boss
    jdettmann
    • Mar 25, 2013
    • 4 min

    The Real Boss

    Come the week of the concert and my mum, who had bravely offered to babysit both May Blossom and Garnet, politely asked how we were going...
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    Make ‘Em Laugh
    jdettmann
    • Mar 7, 2013
    • 4 min

    Make ‘Em Laugh

    May Blossom at work in her office. A month or so ago we let May Blossom watch Singin’ In the Rain. We were on the hunt for a movie that...
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    There Will Be Blog
    jdettmann
    • Feb 25, 2013
    • 1 min

    There Will Be Blog

    My computer, like my children, has sleep issues: it would not go to sleep, preferring to stay awake until it had completely run down its...
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    A Month
    jdettmann
    • Jan 16, 2013
    • 3 min

    A Month

    Garnet has one elf ear. The other is a human ear. We are unsure what, if anything, to make of this. Garnet’s 24 days old. It’s been a bit...
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    This Is Just To Say
    jdettmann
    • Dec 24, 2012
    • 2 min

    This Is Just To Say

    Our little boy was born ten days ago. Sorry it’s taken me so long to put him down and write a post to announce it. But if you smelled his...
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    Keep Calm And Carry On Like A Pork Chop
    jdettmann
    • Dec 14, 2012
    • 2 min

    Keep Calm And Carry On Like A Pork Chop

    May Blossom re-enacts what will happen if you don’t shut about about your birth plan while having coffee with friends. My friends Lou and...
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    We Sleep The Sleep Of The Furious
    jdettmann
    • Dec 9, 2012
    • 2 min

    We Sleep The Sleep Of The Furious

    Whenever May Blossom wakes up these days, the first thing she says is, in a very irritated tone of voice: ‘I didn’t want to go to sleep.’...
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