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    The Joy of Sticks
    jdettmann
    • May 17, 2016
    • 4 min

    The Joy of Sticks

    From top: gun, sword, wand. AKA ‘kindling for Granddad’. I’ve never thought brandishing a stick was a good idea. We were always told by...
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    A Very Peter Pan Birthday
    jdettmann
    • Oct 19, 2015
    • 4 min

    A Very Peter Pan Birthday

    Three weeks out she started saying, ‘I don’t want to hear it’s anyone else’s birthday before mine.’ Now we’re down to four days and she...
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    How To Make Antibiotics In Your Own Car
    jdettmann
    • Jun 17, 2015
    • 4 min

    How To Make Antibiotics In Your Own Car

    Garnet, who has a lot of dandelion picking to do to get back in my good books. There is a new rule in the House of Gusto: no one is...
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    Grant Me The Serenity
    jdettmann
    • Oct 18, 2012
    • 3 min

    Grant Me The Serenity

    Lunch out with a tiny nun always helps. I haven’t been feeling very good lately. It’s nothing that the birth of NB won’t fix (or possibly...
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    Everyone’s A Critic
    jdettmann
    • Sep 10, 2012
    • 4 min

    Everyone’s A Critic

    The next book we’re borrowing from the library is ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’. Right now one of May Blossom’s favourite books is We’re...
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    Secret Fairy Business
    jdettmann
    • Apr 30, 2012
    • 3 min

    Secret Fairy Business

    Everytime a child says “I don’t believe in fairies” there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan...
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    Re-reading Matters
    jdettmann
    • Oct 25, 2011
    • 1 min

    Re-reading Matters

    How funny, that's exactly the outfit I am wearing as I write this blog post, right down to the lipstick and earrings. Mem Fox says in her...
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    Maligned Mothers from Children’s Literature: Mayzie the Lazy Bird
    jdettmann
    • Sep 19, 2011
    • 4 min

    Maligned Mothers from Children’s Literature: Mayzie the Lazy Bird

    May Blossom reads Dear Zoo In Dr Seuss’s Horton Hatches the Egg, a bird called Mayzie grows tired of sitting on her egg. She wants a...
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