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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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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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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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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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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jdettmann
- May 1, 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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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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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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