Should It Stay Or Should It Go?
I need to cull our belongings. This is a truth universally known. But I am also a sentimentalist at heart. I know how you’re meant to get...
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jdettmann
- Nov 2, 2016
- 4 min
November: A To-Do List
Me, making a to-d0 list. Sketch by H. Attend My 20th High School Reunion This weekend I’m going my 20th high school reunion, an event...
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jdettmann
- Jun 29, 2016
- 3 min
It Turns Out, You Can Go Home Again
Sample bookshelf from my parents’ attic: Just one of the many collections of books that tells you probably more than you need to know...
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jdettmann
- Jan 29, 2016
- 3 min
The First Rule of the Best Start Interview is Don’t Talk About the Best Start Interview
I was hoping the test hadn’t started yet. May Blossom has just been for her pre-starting-school chat with a kindy teacher, which is...
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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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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
- May 20, 2015
- 3 min
Go To Sleep, Little Baby
Helpfully, May Blossom and Pipsqueak look like twins born four years apart, so I can illustrate this post with a picture of my own child...
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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 1, 2015
- 3 min
Ten Years? You Get Less For Murder!
I settled on going as a snake charmer. I do know that’s not an actual carnival or circus thing. I didn’t dress as an Indian sitting on a...
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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
- 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
- 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
- Dec 25, 2012
- 2 min
This Is Just To Say
Our little boy was born ten days ago. Sorry it’s taken me so long to put him down and write a post to announce it. But if you smelled his...
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jdettmann
- Nov 24, 2012
- 3 min
My Wedding Advice
My most excellent friends Nic and Wilf are getting married today! So, in their honour, I present my top ten pieces of wedding day advice....
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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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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 5, 2012
- 3 min
Baby You Can’t Drive In My Car
Let’s just get this, in a six-seater version with loads of airbags. We need to get a new car. I find this simultaneously a very boring...
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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
- 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 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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