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    Panic Stations
    jdettmann
    • Feb 20, 2018
    • 4 min

    Panic Stations

    Like sorting Lego into colours, listing your worries makes you feel like you’re making progress. In both cases this is an illusion. I’m...
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    Outstanding
    jdettmann
    • Apr 20, 2012
    • 3 min

    Outstanding

    First prize for The Pun With The Most Elaborate Set-up: H announced this morning that his watch is set to 'Green H mean time'. We’re back...
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    Gracious Is My Middle Name
    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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    Do As I Say, Not As I Do.
    jdettmann
    • Apr 1, 2012
    • 2 min

    Do As I Say, Not As I Do.

    Last week I was grating a raw beetroot into a pot of soup (this soup, incidentally, which is so delicious I almost ate H’s portion before...
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    She Is Sixteen, Going On Seventeen (Months)
    jdettmann
    • Mar 21, 2012
    • 3 min

    She Is Sixteen, Going On Seventeen (Months)

    May Blossom loves to play. Anything that involves chasing, shrieking and creating mayhem gets her seal of approval. Yesterday she and her...
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    You’re So Money
    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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    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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    There Will Be Festivity … And A Little Bit Of Begging
    jdettmann
    • Dec 19, 2011
    • 2 min

    There Will Be Festivity … And A Little Bit Of Begging

    Decorating: done (yes, all my bookshelves are this pretentious) There are but three shopping days left until Christmas, dear reader(s)....
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    I Broke the Mould
    jdettmann
    • Oct 20, 2011
    • 2 min

    I Broke the Mould

    Just asking. You know, for a friend. I have this friend who is very very good at ignoring housework. Other people’s filth she regards as...
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