jdettmannNov 30, 20154 minA Realistic Advent CalendarTomorrow is the first of December, which means today is the perfect day for good parents to fire up Pinterest and check out some of the...
jdettmannJun 15, 20122 minPaint It BlackA mother, on the other hand, in my humble experience of less than two years, is more like the shell of a person. The stretched out, faded...
jdettmannApr 1, 20122 minDo As I Say, Not As I Do.Last week I was grating a raw beetroot into a pot of soup (this soup, incidentally, which is so delicious I almost ate H’s portion before...
jdettmannJan 28, 20123 minHighly CommendedThe Show is a two-day affair, Friday and Saturday, and a celebration of all things agricultural. It is also, in its own way and perhaps...
jdettmannJan 2, 20122 minA New Year, A New Way To Eat Potato ChipsMore guests arrived and three cats became four; an eleven-dollar blow-up paddling pool provided at least twelve dollars worth of fun; I...
jdettmannDec 19, 20112 minThere Will Be Festivity … And A Little Bit Of BeggingDecorating: done (yes, all my bookshelves are this pretentious) There are but three shopping days left until Christmas, dear reader(s)....
jdettmannOct 28, 20112 minDo Yourself A FavourThis morning, between baking four huge chocolate cakes and dealing with a toddler suffering from what I thought was fear of the noise the...
jdettmannOct 26, 20111 minDown With DiversityWhere are your friends? If this is some sort of sock conspiracy to make me lose my tiny mind and turn to the cooking sherry before nine...
jdettmannOct 10, 20112 minHoot, There It Is!One black and white owl, perched on the screen door. The month of September came to an end and the Mystery of The Toilet Roll Owls was...
jdettmannSep 19, 20112 minOwl Be Watching YouA small army of owls Mysterious things never happen to me. Well, almost never. There was the incident with the Russian stalker who stole...