Billy, Don’t Be A Hero
Seven year olds can make their own fairy bread. That’s dinner for the rest of the year sorted. I’m a long way through the writing of this...
JESSICA DETTMANN
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jdettmann
- Aug 25, 2016
- 5 min
Area of Particular Interest
That aside, we are really very extremely excited. We are going to Finland, Sweden and Denmark. The trip has come about because Jess is a...
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jdettmann
- Jun 22, 2016
- 1 min
Songs by The Smiths or Things My Three Year Old Said Today?
Portrait of Garnet by his sister or Smiths album cover? In lieu of a proper post, today I have a fun game for you, dear readers. It’s...
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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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jdettmann
- Sep 2, 2015
- 3 min
Roll With It
When we stayed in Perth last Christmas, housesitting for friends, I noticed a box in the laundry that had ‘Who Gives A Crap’ printed on...
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jdettmann
- Jun 4, 2015
- 3 min
Lego, Lego, Can’t Hold It Back Any More
For about a year we have had, shoved into the cupboard in the playroom where no-one ever goes because it houses the vacuum cleaner, a...
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jdettmann
- Apr 15, 2015
- 2 min
How Funny? Pants-Off Funny
Benny Hill is a cultural reference that is on its last legs, I’d say. I only recall it vaguely from my childhood, mostly because it...
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jdettmann
- Apr 15, 2014
- 3 min
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,...
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jdettmann
- Mar 5, 2014
- 2 min
Games for Rainy Days
Others are more prosaic. Take ‘Molly Drops Her Phone’. In this game, May Blossom is Molly. Molly takes my phone, puts it in her handbag...
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jdettmann
- Apr 19, 2013
- 3 min
The Games We Play: Angry Men Edition
I spent a bit of time on that flight in the galley, bobbing around while getting Garnet off to sleep, and so I was privy to the pursed...
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jdettmann
- Mar 25, 2013
- 4 min
The Real Boss
Come the week of the concert and my mum, who had bravely offered to babysit both May Blossom and Garnet, politely asked how we were going...
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jdettmann
- Nov 22, 2012
- 2 min
Talking Turkey
Actually, this year the game of Move The Tables From The Verandah To The Garden And Back Again Thrice As The Weather Changes was knocked...
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jdettmann
- Nov 16, 2012
- 1 min
Ages Two And Up
Are you aged two (and up)? Are you bored? Have you got no-one to play with but your own shadow? Try some of the new games May Blossom has...
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jdettmann
- Nov 14, 2012
- 1 min
This Is What You Get When You Mess With Us
I think we all feel like this today. Because of the wonders of Facebook, I know, for certain, that everyone else in the civilised world...
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jdettmann
- Nov 13, 2012
- 3 min
Children’s Parties for the Back-yardless
Invitations: To get the numbers up, it’s useful invite people to your party. I used Paperless Post for electronic invitations. It is...
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jdettmann
- Aug 21, 2012
- 4 min
What I Learned on My Holidays
1. You have to stay somewhere as good or better than home. My very clever friend Other Jess once told me this, and I think she is right....
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jdettmann
- Aug 10, 2012
- 3 min
Off The Wagon
We have just spent seven days on a dude ranch in southern Colorado with my extended family on my mother’s side. We do this every couple...
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jdettmann
- Jul 10, 2012
- 3 min
There Are People With Games Of Thrones And Stories To Tell
Wild scenes: May Blossom out of control in the moshpit. Tip her over, pour her out. We’ve just returned from the Play School Concert. If...
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jdettmann
- Jun 26, 2012
- 2 min
Absence Makes The Weather Grow Colder.
Um, no. I haven’t got a good reason. I was just off, you know, living my life and trying to keep warm. Oh, and GROWING A HUMAN, too,...
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jdettmann
- May 17, 2012
- 2 min
Mother’s Day And A Misunderstanding
‘Poo.’ She declared. Then, in case I was in any doubt of what she was referring to, she pointed to the bean with her other hand and said...
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