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    Wake In Fright: My Idyllic Country Writer’s Retreat
    jdettmann
    • Nov 7, 2017
    • 3 min

    Wake In Fright: My Idyllic Country Writer’s Retreat

    I’ve done a couple of these little three-day stints in the past few months, and until now they’ve been fantastic for getting a huge...
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    Nothing Is Fun For The Whole Family
    jdettmann
    • Apr 27, 2016
    • 5 min

    Nothing Is Fun For The Whole Family

    This seems lovely, doesn’t it? Until you realise that is not the ocean Garnet is wallowing in but actually self-pity. See the ripples of...
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    Good Spider, Bad Spider
    jdettmann
    • Mar 8, 2016
    • 3 min

    Good Spider, Bad Spider

    Dumbledore (left) and Huntsman Who Did Not Heed Me (right) Sydney’s in the middle of a plague of spiders. Summer forgot to end and for...
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    Tropical with No Chance of Orang-utans
    jdettmann
    • Mar 1, 2016
    • 3 min

    Tropical with No Chance of Orang-utans

    How I cope with this is to put aside what I should be doing (perhaps preparing my keynote speech for the International Conference on...
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    Some Enchanted Evening
    jdettmann
    • Nov 23, 2015
    • 4 min

    Some Enchanted Evening

    Obviously this is not the beach we went to in this story. This is Waikiki beach, where I have also been grumpy in the recent past. I’m...
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    Ignorance Is Bliss
    jdettmann
    • Nov 16, 2015
    • 3 min

    Ignorance Is Bliss

    Apocalypse now, or have we time for another coffee before the end of days? ‘Why do I still have to go to kindy?’ May Blossom moaned  to...
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    Champion of the Novelties
    jdettmann
    • Jul 6, 2015
    • 6 min

    Champion of the Novelties

    I have been exercising quite a lot. It turns out the trick to exercise is not trying too hard. Apparently I knew this when I was a child...
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    I Stand For Mercy
    jdettmann
    • Apr 29, 2015
    • 2 min

    I Stand For Mercy

    I’m generally pretty hopeless at looking the bad aspects of our world in the eye. I’m didn’t participate in any vigils for Andrew Chan...
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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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    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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    Car Seat Shopping For The Hormonally Deranged
    jdettmann
    • Nov 23, 2012
    • 3 min

    Car Seat Shopping For The Hormonally Deranged

    One of the many dangerous roads of the world that are all out to get my children, according to my pregnancy-addled brain. Have you ever...
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    Degree Of Difficulty
    jdettmann
    • Jul 24, 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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    1-2-3-4 Tell Me That You Love Me More
    jdettmann
    • Jul 3, 2012
    • 3 min

    1-2-3-4 Tell Me That You Love Me More

    This pregnancy I have been plagued with insomnia, which is not something I have ever experienced before. I was the kid who could fall...
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    Crying Over Spilt Milk
    jdettmann
    • May 9, 2012
    • 5 min

    Crying Over Spilt Milk

    That sort of casual attitude is exactly how I did NOT approach breastfeeding. I approached it with a delightful cocktail of fear,...
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    You Be The Judge: On Playgroups And Tantrums
    jdettmann
    • Jan 31, 2012
    • 2 min

    You Be The Judge: On Playgroups And Tantrums

    It probably wasn’t as awful to others as it was to me, but most of the other mums there have two or more kids, and I suddenly felt like a...
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    Going Viral
    jdettmann
    • Jan 23, 2012
    • 3 min

    Going Viral

    Did you know there is such a thing as Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease? No? Well, you do now. I highly recommend not google-image searching...
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    Fear and Loving in Far North Queensland
    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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