Train Travel For The Out-Of-Practice
Train for illustrative purposes only. Not a Tangara. When my train pulled into the station this morning, I thought ‘Ooh, fancy: a...
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jdettmann
- Aug 18, 2014
- 2 min
Spread Joy Up To The Maximum
While Garnet was sick all he has wanted to do was have me read him books while he languished in my lap. Once day I dragged out a Play...
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jdettmann
- Aug 8, 2014
- 3 min
The Son Also Vomits
My daughter has a remarkable grasp of phonetic spelling. This week has indeed been totally phykd. Gastro. Again. You’re going to start...
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jdettmann
- Jul 4, 2014
- 3 min
We Sneeze In The Face Of Danger
May Blossom’s Self-Portrait With Gastro It’s winter here, and with each new and sparkling dawn comes a new illness. I’m quite serious:...
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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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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
- Jan 15, 2014
- 3 min
When You Think He’s Fast Asleep, He’s Always Wide Awake
Why the italics, you might ask. What has Gusto done to merit that? Nothing. Gusto is being an exemplary feline. It is the jellicle cats...
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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
- Oct 22, 2013
- 3 min
Nearly Three Years In
Tomorrow is May Blossom’s third birthday. If you’d asked me three years ago what I thought my life might look like now, I would have...
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jdettmann
- Oct 3, 2013
- 2 min
The Trials of Motherhood
He wasn’t a bad baby to begin with, but about six months ago I began to hear tales from his mother about various crimes and misdemeanours...
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jdettmann
- Sep 20, 2013
- 3 min
Things Are Good When Things Are Good
Thing 1: Since one or other or another of his or my recent colds or ear infections or other random maladies that have blurred into one...
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jdettmann
- Aug 28, 2013
- 2 min
What’s Mine Is Mine and What’s Yours Is Mine Too
Every Tuesday, she will go to a fantastic home daycare, which is, happily, run by my parents’ neighbour. She will be one of five small...
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jdettmann
- Aug 24, 2013
- 3 min
Upstairs Downstairs
The state of the carpet on the stairs is too shameful to photograph, so here’s a picture of Garnet in a massive hat instead. Our new...
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jdettmann
- Aug 9, 2013
- 3 min
In The House
Remember when I used to write things on this blog? Those were the days, eh? Well, those days might be returning. Things are finally,...
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jdettmann
- May 22, 2013
- 2 min
True Romance
Because I want this to remain a mummy blog, and not morph into a beauty blog, I shall refrain from giving you the contact details of the...
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jdettmann
- May 14, 2013
- 4 min
Missing, In Action
‘It means he’s sad,’ I told her. ‘It’s a metaphor. Why do you think he’s sad?’ ‘I think it’s because he misses his mummy and his sister...
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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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