The Perfect Gin and Tonic
As much as I love a gin and tonic I am surprisingly unfussy about how they are prepared. As long as it has gin and tonic water in it,...
JESSICA DETTMANN
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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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jdettmann
- Nov 3, 2013
- 1 min
Does Gin Sink?
I want to know because H just made me a gin and tonic to stop me being so very grumpy and Sundaynighty and horrible (my mother suggested...
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jdettmann
- Dec 4, 2012
- 1 min
You Give Me Fever
In the event of finding yourself over thirty-eight weeks pregnant and suffering from a virus that makes you burn with fever and shake...
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jdettmann
- Jul 25, 2012
- 2 min
Degree Of Difficulty
Oh for the days when the in-seat phone was all the entertainment she needed. In about four hours we are heading to the airport to fly for...
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jdettmann
- Apr 3, 2012
- 2 min
Gracious Is My Middle Name
I actually had a very, very nice birthday. May Blossom decided that I should enjoy the day for as many hours as possible so she got up at...
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jdettmann
- Mar 14, 2012
- 2 min
Smells Like Too Many Spirits
This week I moved all our wine from the hall cupboard into wine racks on top of the spare room wardrobe, relocating the spirits to the...
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jdettmann
- Mar 5, 2012
- 3 min
Is Going Out Tonight Worth It?: A Statistical Analysis
I bought the tickets a few months ago on a whim, because H loves Bonnie Prince Billy, who is a grumpy-looking, balding, blond bearded...
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jdettmann
- Feb 15, 2012
- 3 min
You’re So Money
In other areas of my life in which I am clearly not money, I went back to the gym today for the first time since I was five months...
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jdettmann
- Feb 9, 2012
- 1 min
What I’ve Liked This Week: Fremantle Edition
Wearing sandals, thongs, or plastic Melissa shoes. Looking at the photograph ‘Nat and the Girls’ by my clever friend John Witzig,...
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jdettmann
- Feb 8, 2012
- 2 min
No Gold Medal
When we arrived in Perth three days ago, sixteen hours after Pappy’s death, we were running on what could charitably described as empty....
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jdettmann
- Jan 2, 2012
- 2 min
A New Year, A New Way To Eat Potato Chips
More guests arrived and three cats became four; an eleven-dollar blow-up paddling pool provided at least twelve dollars worth of fun; I...
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jdettmann
- Nov 14, 2011
- 2 min
Fear and Loving in Far North Queensland
Welcome to Cape Fear. Also Cape Hliarious Strategic Removal of Letters on Signs. I’ve been thinking this morning about H’s and my...
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jdettmann
- Nov 11, 2011
- 1 min
The Cure for Autumn Envy
What this means is that the food bloggers are always writing about the finding delicious new season apples in their farmers’ markets just...
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jdettmann
- Sep 26, 2011
- 1 min
What I’ve Liked This Week
reading about monochromes. I had read about this phenomenon years ago here and forgotten all about it. listening to Stornoway. wearing my...
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